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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 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 …
I’ve updated the Acronyms plugin with some bug fixes based on reports from Blaenk Daenum and frasten.[FIX] The acronym list when sorted by acronyms will now properly sort upper and lower cases[FIX] A conflict with WordPress that caused an error when trying to delete a draft has been corrected[FIX] The full text for TIFF in ...
After some tinkering around over the weekend I’ve updated the Acronyms plugin to match the WordPress 2.5 UI, rework the management interface making it more useable, and making a few tweaks to the replacement algorithm to fulfill a few feature requests.You can either upgrade to 1.5.1 automatically through your WordPress plugins interface if you’re using ...
I’ve said that there are two things that would make me buy an iPhone: if the iPhone is officially released in Singapore, or if Apple releases a 2nd-gen iPhone. If both came true this year I’d be a very happy person.I’ve posted not too long back that the former will very likely be happening this ...
I gave up waiting for Firefox 3 and decided to just try the Firefox 3 beta, starting with beta 3 a few weeks back. I have had nearly zero stability issues with it so far and definitely recommend it to anyone beginning to lose patience with Firefox 2’s poor memory handling, slow page rendering, and ...
WordPress 2.5 was released over the weekend, the first major upgrade to WordPress since version 2.1. There’s a lot of new backend stuff that was improved which I have yet to properly read up about and grok. I suspect it might be time for me to shelve World of Warcraft for a while and take ...
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 ...
More rumours flying around. This time it seems to be SingTel and September. Still no concrete confirmation but who knows?I stand by my previous statement: if the only way for me to get an iPhone legitimately in Singapore is to change my mobile provider, I will do so. Some rights reserved | Permalink | ...
A College Degree Doesn’t Necessarily Unlock Every DoorA Michigan pastor writes about the factors which, in the real world, are often far more important in landing a job than the degree its …
There used to be a small patch of grassy land next to my apartment block, about the size of two soccer fields or so by my estimate. Some time last year we saw an HDB sign go up announcing the land was being tendered for condominium development. In the last few months, Sim Lian began ...
Yahoo! Answers: What's the point of college?ryan runner asked:What's the point of going to college and getting a degree if you can't use it to get a good job and end up working at some place that requires a high school diploma making a low salary?...and Yahoo! users chimed in with their answers. Most of the answers seem to revolve around career advancement, as one might …
In the address last January when Steve Jobs first announced the iPhone, he said that the iPhone would be available in Asia at an undetermined date in 2008. Since then we’ve heard very little about a possible Asian release, and given the difficulties inherent to such a release in many small countries (the only really ...
It’s that time of the year again, it seems, to celebrate the founding of the Anglo-Chinese School. 122 years ago today Bishop Oldham started his little class of 13 Chinese boys in Amoy Street, and look where we are now.Our hearts, our hopes, our aims are oneNo discord e’er will severWe’ll stand together for the ...
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. ...
WTH!A friend of mine in NUS Engineering relates his dissatisfactory experience trying to apply for a graduate research program. Unsurprisingly, the school botched the entire process and made many people angry.
"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 …
Longwood University SucksIf you're a student at Longwood University in Virginia or thinking about applying there, you might want to check out this wiki with contributions from past and present Longwood students, chock full of complaints and horror stories.
A video rant on university life that's directed more at fellow students than at the institution of university itself.
I Hate University LifeA fellow Singaporean (and founder of the ping.sg blog aggregator expresses his dissatisfaction with university life and with Engineering in particular.
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