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We watched the sky fall down
breaking into a million pieces
incandescent spears piercing the night.
We saw flowers bloom
gold, red, green, blue:
showers of light.
We heard gunfire;
explosives and ordnance
shattering nocturnal serenity.
Five stars arose...
It’s scary what you can find with Google Earth. Apparently, I was right all those times I suspected Imperial invasions in Singapore. They’ve already established a base here, in Simei! The proof is irrefutable! East Point Shopping Centre is ...
Some people have been asking about the plugins that I’ve used in this new iteration of my blog, so here’s a list. I’ll keep this updated as and when I add or remove plugins.
Admin Drop MenusChanges the behaviour of menus in the Word...
I was disappointed when I heard about the decision to bar nearly 30 civil society activists from the IMF meetings here in Singapore. Not surprised, no, but certainly disappointed. What did surprise me, however, was that yesterday the decision was reversed for a majority of those activists.
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censorship, government, singapore
Just one or two nights ago my dad commented that the islandwide wireless internet access that had previously been announced was still nowhere to be seen. I didn’t remember hearing about that, but last night I saw an article on C|Net that mentione...
Since streetdirectory.com was taken down by the LTA (and is now subsequently back again under a new owner), many Singaporeans were left without a convenient online street map to use. That is, until mid-July, when tomorrow.sg alerted us to a new street directory site called gothere.sg.gothere.sg has a very simple interface: enter in your ...
I was listening to This Week in Tech yesterday and something caught my attention. The panel was discussing a cybercrime treaty that the USA has recently ratified.
According to the EFF, the treaty requires that the U.S. government help enforce other co...
Now you know what FLOSS is, let’s talk about why FLOSS is so important. Apart from the abstract concept of freedom, which is very much related to the American ideal of freedom of speech, there are several tangible benefits to using FLOSS, some of...
It’s done. For the first time since I started this blog in mid-2001, I’ve changed the name. Along with the name change comes a new look, a new underlying blog engine, and a new focus in my blogging. This will be a new beginning.
Let’s...
Well, it hasn’t happened quite yet, but the WordPress download counter is, at the time of this posting, at about 997,340, and steadily rising. It should hit the 1 million mark soon, and that will be a time of great rejoicing, I’m sure. With...
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 …
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 ...
I love geek memes, even more so when they’re nearly undecipherable and make little sense.Marcine:~ ketsugi$ uname -aDarwin Marcine.local 9.2.2 Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar 4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386 i386Marcine:~ ketsugi$ history|awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn|head47 ls40 cd36 ping12 …
This is too good to pass up. Seems like Sony/BMG got caught using pirated software in their offices. Surprising? Hardly; the French article quoted notes that 47% of software used in all French companies (the Wired quote contains a translation error according to commenters) is pirated. But it’s a hoot that Sony/BMG of all companies ...
I’ve noticed several incoming visitors from the AnimeCo forums, who seem to be searching for Anatolia Story manga scanlations. I am sorry to inform you that these are no longer available from my website. Also, given the demise of MangaCo over a y...
Okay fine, misleading headline. But this advertisement I saw on Facebook really made me go “wtf”. Some rights reserved | Permalink | 0 replies Add to del.icio.us Search blogs linking this post with Technorati
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 ...
I just discovered, via ping.sg, a (kind of) new blog host that’s targeted at Singaporeans. It’s called “Singapore Blogs“; not a terribly original or creative name. But what’s in a name, anyhow?
The site is running WordPre...
The audience and the judges initially laughed at Miss Boyle when she told them she wanted to be a famous artist like Paige and gyrated her hips. But that all changed after her performance, with the notoriously hard-to-please Cowell describing her as “a little tiger” while Morgan called her the “biggest surprise I’ve had in ...
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