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I’ve not really been following the American political campaigns very closely apart from vaguely knowing there’s some kind of Clinton vs Obama thing going down with the Democrats (and for some reason I know next to nothing about any Republican candidates, if indeed there are any still in the running), but I came across this ...
I had the privilege of being approached by a Straits Times reporter this week over my earlier writeup about BookMooch. She asked a few questions and I replied via email, and an article about BookMooch appeared in today’s Sunday Times.
I was not ...
“Weird Al” has once again released a free-for-download song. This time it’s the first single from his new album, Straight Outta Lynwood. It’s a great sarcastic take on music piracy, and dispenses sage advice that the RIAA can...
I was in NUS today to attend a talk by Dr Vint Cerf, affectionately termed the Father of the Internet by some. The talk was held at my old school, the School of Computing, but returning after two years was an odd experience, since SOC is now located where the Faculty of Law used to ...
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Telstra, Optus and Vodafone are lined up to sell the iPhone in Australia, making it seem more and more likely that SingTel will get it here. Some rights reserved | Permalink | 0 replies Add to del.icio.us Search blogs linking this post with Technorati
This… this is amazing.The most complex, “mind-boggling” crop circle ever to be seen in Britain has been discovered in a barley field in Wiltshire. The formation, measuring 150ft in diameter, is apparently a coded image representing the first 10 digits, 3.141592654, of pi.Click the link for a picture of the crop circle. Holy smokes. Some rights ...
As part of the interview process for a librarian job at NUS, I had to write a short essay to demonstrate my amazing ability to form grammatically correct English sentences. Despite the fact that I’ve been blogging regularly for years, I actually ...
It’s now 31 August 2006, according to my preferred time zone, which means two things:
I’m now officially 25 years old. Happy birthday me!
Today is once again Blog Day.
I blogged about this last year, but forgot to actually make the Blog ...
One of the great things about FLOSS projects is the community that rallies around each one. Not all software projects manage to garner a good community, but many do, and these are the ones that will never die because the software is well-loved and main...
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Back while I was using Nucleus, I adapted a Wordpress plugin by Joel Bennett to place nice <acronym> tags around acronyms. Now that I’m back on WordPress, I’ve ported my Nucleus plugin back to Wordpress to incorporate the ...
Since Mark James released his Silk icon set, it’s become one of the easiest Web 2.0 trends to spot. It can be seen in use on sites all over, and some desktop software have skins or themes that use it too. As I mentioned before, I use it quite hea...
Avoid idleness, and fill up all the spaces of thy time with severe and useful employment: for lust easily creeps in at those emptinesses where the soul is unemployed and the body is at ease; no easy, healthful, idle person was ever chaste if he could.
– Jeremy Taylor, 1613-1667
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It’s commonly been said that Singaporeans love to queue. This is possibly only upped by the Singaporean penchant for cutting queues. This is probably easiest to spot at any MRT station during peak hours, where one need not look too carefully to s...
In a world where the operating systems market is dominated by Microsoft Windows, the office applications market is dominated by Microsoft Office, and the internet browser market is dominated by Microsoft Internet Explorer, it’s easy for even an e...
My 1-terabyte Time Capsule arrived this evening, which means Apple did manage to make their February shipping promise, if only just. I’ve taken the obligatory unboxing photos, though in my hasty excitement and girlish squealing I forgot to take more photos of the Time Capsule from various angles and in comparison with various other devices. ...
"What's the point of university?"BBC Radio 3 asks the question:Is University there to get you a well-paid job, to turn you into a civilised citizen or to give you three years of fun? With NUS (National Union of Students) President Gemma Tumelty, businessman Dougal Paver, Gerald Pillay, Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University, and Kelvin Everest, Public Orator for the …
Here’s the long-delayed introduction to what FLOSS really is. In the software world we often talk about two kinds of freedom: free as in beer, and free as in speech. The first refers to software which are available for use at no financial cost: f...
Bing was telling me yesterday of a friend of hers from NUS Law School who’s now taking modules on IT Law. Apparently he was a bit overwhelmed during the first lecture of the semester, with too much technical jargon being thrown about by the lectu...
The Apple team might want to find a better way to shorten the word “sparsebundle”… Some rights reserved | Permalink | 0 replies Add to del.icio.us Search blogs linking this post with Technorati
I’ve been using Gnome as my desktop environment since I started using Ubuntu. I’ve always been fond of its simplicity and ease of use, and have resisted trying out KDE for the longest time. Well, until now, that is.
I’d already tried...
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