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This is several months old by now, but I only found this today thanks to TWiT and Wired. Here are some interesting stats about the video game market in the United States:38% of gamers are femalethe average age of gamers is 33 years oldthe average age of frequent game purchasers is 38 years oldSo it ...
This is one of the greatest tips ever, and I can’t wait to actually try it out and see how well it works. Some rights reserved | Permalink | 0 replies Add to del.icio.us Search blogs linking this post with Technorati
To satisfy a personal curiosity about the varying performance of broadband ISPs across Singapore, and to try out a new feature of Google Docs Spreadsheets I just found out about, I’d like to invite all Singaporeans with residential broadband connections to fill in the survey below.To reiterate the notes given below, please go to http://speedtest.net ...
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 much as the government is trying to spin the prison break as a cautionary tale, the episode is revealing shortcomings in Singapore’s nanny state. … But there are few external or independent checks on the system–and this lack of scrutiny, combined with the government’s generally successful record, has produced serious blind spots. … In ...
I’m sorry, MobileOne. We had a good thing going, we really did. It’s been eight years now, and we’ve had some great times.I could spout some clichés about all good things …
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From Reuters:“He is near psychopath,” Lee Kuan Yew said of Chee Soon Juan.“I don’t think even Solomon would be able to mediate between a psychopath and sane rational people,” he said, referring to the biblical King Solomon.I can’t help but feel that MM Lee is deliberating trying to lose the respect of the younger Singaporeans ...
VueStar, a Singaporean company, claims to have received a patent to technology that enables “Internet searching via visual images”. Whatever that really means — and it seems no …
VueStar, a Singaporean company, claims to have received a patent to technology that enables “Internet searching via visual images”. Whatever that really means — and it seems no …
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 ...
University sucksThe title's quite self-explanatory. This blogger offers 5 reasons why he (or she) thinks that university life is full of suckitude.
A scientist at the University of Leicester did some basic calculations and found that the cost of sending a megabyte of data via SMS is about £374.49. Going by the usual Singaporean rate o …
Reuters reported today that SingTel’s launching the iPhone “by the end of the year”, whatever that really means. SingTel’s also launching the iPhone via subsidiaries in Australia, Philippines and India, not that that concerns me much. To be honest, this is a non-announcement. “By the end of the year”? We already knew as much. Apparently ...
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
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
Matt Mullenweg, the creator (or something like that) of WordPress, recently posted about the need to keep your copy of WordPress up-to-date: not to keep up with the latest features, though that’s certainly a good enough reason for most of us, but to make sure your blog isn’t exploitable by known security vulnerabilities in older ...



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