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For many years now I’ve been a huge fan of Microsoft’s input hardware: I love the Natural Keyboard and their wireless mice. When I bought a new Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer near the beginning of the year, however, I wasn’t...
It’s that time of the year again, when I shamelessly ask for gifts in cash or kind, in the wild and vain hopes of actually getting something. At the end of this month I turn 25, so please feel free to throw money at me (there’s a donate but...
That infamous Bill Gates quote about 640k of memory being enough for anyone might be a misquote, but things like this do make you wonder about that…
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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 …
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Sieteocho notified me that BookMooch had removed the ability to search for books or members by location, which would naturally make it a whole lot more difficult to organise a Singapore BookMooch meet-up if I or any other person were to decide to organ...
Win Free Fuel (by buying Chocolate)
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While the USA is waging war for the sake of oil, Western Australia is just giving gas away.
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While I was in KL I picked up a nice brown t-shirt with the Autobot logo emblazoned across the front. I’ve been wanting something like this for a while now, especially since I’ve noticed over the past year or so that I’ve been seeing ...
Last week, Microsoft finally ended support for Windows 98 and ME. This shouldn’t concern most of you; looking at my site stats most of my readers are on Windows XP anyway. But I do have some friends who’re still hanging on to Windows 98 or ...
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 ...
There have been a few requests recently in #wordpress for a tarball of the current Subversion snapshot of WordPress, which WordPress itself doesn’t offer. So I put together a quick script and cronjob which will make a tarball of the WordPress Sub...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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Over the past week or so I’ve been working as a desktop engineer, standing by to provide technical support for press, delegates and CSO members attending the WB/IMF Annual Meeting 2006 in Suntec City here in Singapore. Most of my time, especially now that I’ve been moved to the night shift, has been spent in the Press Centre where foreign journalists do their …
University sucksThe title's quite self-explanatory. This blogger offers 5 reasons why he (or she) thinks that university life is full of suckitude.
One of the cool things about Amazon.com is how it uses its huge amount of consumer purchasing data to track trends and patterns. Sometimes, however, the trends it notices can be just a little bit suspect:
We’ve noticed that customers who have pur...
UNESCO has published a “World Heritage List” which documents some of the “properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage… having outstanding universal value”. Whatever that really means.
Anyway, the meme is t...
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