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When I was in Beijing in April, we (my girlfriend, sister, friends and I) noticed a fair number of interesting signs. There have been numerous reports of such things on varyingly reputable sites, but nothing could have quite prepared us for what we actually encountered. Here are some of the ones I managed to catch on camera, and my sister has already posted a few others among …
I keep underestimating the Singaporean penchant for queues. Subway in Singapore’s been having a series of promotions to celebrate its 10th birthday, and today’s promotion was a 10-cent sub at all Subway outlets, between 3pm-4pm. Naively I thought I’d go and grab myself a cheap sandwich, only to be daunted by the long line that snaked around the Raffles City …
Agagooga hates iTunes and I’m not entirely sure why. Sure, iTunes isn’t perfect, but it’s still one of the better music management software products available, even if you don’t own an iPod. I’ve been actively evangelising iTunes since it got ported to Windows about three years ago. Here are some of the reasons I prefer iTunes over WinAMP, …
Internet Explorer 7 is the search bar, similar to that of Firefox. You can add new search engines either from the respective browsers’ search engines pages (IE7 and Firefox 2), or you can add a new search engine directly from a website that provides one. Such as mine, for instance.
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It says something about the efficiency of the MRT system here, or the ineffiency of the bus system here – or maybe both – that it took me the same amount of time to travel from City Hall M …
a rather insightful article which talks about the kind of culture shock that Windows users seeking to switch to Linux tend to experience. It’s a good read for both camps: Windows users will gain a better understanding of some of the barriers that they might face, and Linux users will gain a better understanding of how their attitudes towards Linux and software can …
I watched Death Note this evening. I’ve never been a big fan of the manga: I read the one-shot way back when, and I didn’t really find it interesting enough to pursue it when it got serialised. When I heard about the movie I was rather ambivalent about it at first, but then I decided I might as well watch it to find out why it’s so popular. I watched the …
I don’t know how many times I’ve suffered hard disk failures in my lifetime, but if I had to guess, I’d say “too many”. Each time it happened, I swore to start doing regular backups and making sure I never suffer data loss again. As you can imagine, each time my resolve and persistence faltered, and, quite predictably, I eventually found myself …
Since several people had requested this feature in my Feeds Widget plugin for WordPress, I’m now releasing version 1.2 which adds the option to display an image before each feed link that the widget generates. This is primarily for those who have difficulty in getting the CSS icon to display properly, and will generate a proper XHTML-compliant image tag before each …
I’m blogging here because I can’t seem to access wordpress on the Chinese internet. It is as if some Great Firewall of China has blocked it. I’m using the internet at a net cafe near school because we don’t have internet at the hostel, which is rather rundown, but quite a cosy place.It’s difficult to adapt, to the pace of life, to the weather, to …
It’s taken a while, after my week away at church camp, to catch up with all the podcasts that had been released, but I finally did it. Not a single podcast in the list… it’s quite unnerving; I’ve been hitting the “Refresh” button every hour today hoping for a new Buzz Out Loud.podcast Some rights reserved | Permalink | 0 replies Add …
‘Most severely wounded’ soldier endures: blind, quadriplegic, struggling to breatheTAMPA, Florida: He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding …
Someone’s made a list of what he thinks are the 250 best movies made in the last 30 years. I’m not going to argue too much with his list: that’s nearly 10 movies per year which means you could reasonably include just about every major motion picture release in the last 30 years. But I will turn this into a meme/tag-type thing. Except I’m not going to …
Firefox 2.0 has finally been released, almost exactly a year after 1.5. If you need to, you can go take a look at what’s new in 2.0 before you download it if you really have to. Apart from the visual refresh, there isn’t that much new that’s immediately apparent. The inline spell check is useful for bloggers, and the new feed handling is certainly better …
Apple’s announced a slew of new iPods. I have to say I’ve got somewhat mixed reactions to the whole shebang, so let’s take a look at each in turn.apple, ipod Some rights reserved | Permalink | 0 replies Add to del.icio.us Search blogs linking this post with Technorati
The Odex debacle in Singapore is generating a lot more buzz than I ever thought it would. I’d always assumed it would go the way of pirated software in Sim Lim Square: people would talk about it quietly, usually acknowledging the undisputed illegality of the material in question, and bemoan the loss of cheap goods ...
Quick “hi” from Beijing. Weather is great. We’re safe and fine. Enjoying ourselves. There’ll be a proper blog post with photos when I get back.beijing, china, holiday Some rights reserved | Permalink | 0 replies Add to del.icio.us Search blogs linking this post with Technorati
PC user, and nearly a year of enjoying Linux, I’m finally going to get a Mac. Finally. Ever since I got stiffed at NUS (I wanted to get a PowerBook but they weren’t available at the time I needed to get a laptop, so I ended up getting a Toshiba instead — and wouldn’t you know it, PowerBooks were back on the menu just two months later) I’ve been …
If Apple, as the rumours go, really does release a matte black iPhone, I will be pissed. Also, I will want one immediately.Unfortunately the image shown on that page appears to be a fake, but I can still hope that Apple will finally fix the one glaring problem with every single iPod since the first ...
Engadget and TUAW, as well as various other media outlets, are confirming that Apple Inc has sent out invitations to what seems to be an iPod-related event next Wednesday (Thursday 1am for me). As usual, the rumours are flying around: smaller (but fatter) iPod Nanos, full-screen touch-interface video iPods, iPods with more flash memory ...
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