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WordPress 2.3 is out and you can get it from the usual location. This is a major upgrade, however, and not to be entered into lightly. I’ve so far upgraded my private blog as well as this one for testing. I ran into some problems when ugprading The Panegyrist which necessitated upgrading a bunch of ...
From what I’ve seen and heard about the iPhone so far, I still can’t say for sure that I’ll definitely be picking one up when it’s finally available here in retail. It’s entirely possible that when the time comes, I’ll look at it and decide I’d rather stick with a Nokia or some other phone, ...
The entirety of the online version of the New York Times will be free starting today. This not only includes current news, but its entire archive of news stories from 1851-1922 and 1987 onwards. Apparently there’ll still be charges for some (but not all) material from 1923-1986… I wonder why.Meanwhile, the Straits Times continues to ...
I often eat at a little diner downstairs from my office which sells, among other things, “Hainanese” chicken rice. I choose to eat there usually because it’s cheap (given that I work in the main commercial district and most food is comparatively pretty expensive around here) and because the food’s actually pretty good. It helps ...
I got my new iPod on Tuesday, after almost two days of nail-biting anticipation. I’m not going to post unboxing photos since there are plenty of those floating around and it’s pretty silly anyway. However I thought I’d do a couple of photos comparing the 80GB iPod Classic to the 5th-generation 30GB iPod Video.apple, ipod Some ...
Apple’s announced a slew of new iPods. I have to say I’ve got somewhat mixed reactions to the whole shebang, so let’s take a look at each in turn.apple, ipod Some rights reserved | Permalink | 0 replies Add to del.icio.us Search blogs linking this post with Technorati
From Wired News:…Sony will begin phasing out the ATRAC audio format. The company has published an FAQ for ATRAC users instructing them on how to continue to listen to their music, and it has provided a conversion tool that will cross-encode ATRAC files to either WMA or MP3. The conversion tool ships with the new ...
The Odex debacle in Singapore is generating a lot more buzz than I ever thought it would. I’d always assumed it would go the way of pirated software in Sim Lim Square: people would talk about it quietly, usually acknowledging the undisputed illegality of the material in question, and bemoan the loss of cheap goods ...
Engadget and TUAW, as well as various other media outlets, are confirming that Apple Inc has sent out invitations to what seems to be an iPod-related event next Wednesday (Thursday 1am for me). As usual, the rumours are flying around: smaller (but fatter) iPod Nanos, full-screen touch-interface video iPods, iPods with more flash memory ...
It is well known — by those who know me well — that I am not particularly fond of the Chinese language. Having never been very good at it, I subsequently began to dislike it, which in turn made me even worse at it: a vicious cycle that perpetuated through my student days. I was ...
China has also barred any Buddhist monk living outside China from seeking reincarnation. On the surface it appears to be absurd, but underneath it is simply China solidifying its occupation of Tibet.read more | digg storyNo Tags Some rights reserved | Permalink | 0 replies Add to del.icio.us Search blogs linking this post with Technorati
It’s taken a while, after my week away at church camp, to catch up with all the podcasts that had been released, but I finally did it. Not a single podcast in the list… it’s quite unnerving; I’ve been hitting the “Refresh” button every hour today hoping for a new Buzz Out Loud.podcast Some rights reserved | Permalink | 0 replies Add …
We first heard about the new Transformers movie about two years ago and now it’s finally arrived. I watched it last Friday (yes, it opened in Singapore almost a week before it opened …
Could someone explain to me why it is that I need to authenticate my Audible account in iTunes every time I sync my iPod? It’s more of an annoyance than anything else but it does get rather tiresome after a while.itunes, stupidity Some rights reserved | Permalink | 0 replies Add to del.icio.us Search blogs linking this post with Technorati
‘Most severely wounded’ soldier endures: blind, quadriplegic, struggling to breatheTAMPA, Florida: He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding …
‘Most severely wounded’ soldier endures: blind, quadriplegic, struggling to breatheTAMPA, Florida: He lies flat, unseeing eyes fixed on the ceiling, tubes and machines feeding …
This is so awesome. By which I mean sad.Can the level of math education sink any lower?Teaching Math In 1950:A logger sold a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?Teaching Math In 1960:A logger sold a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?Teaching Math In …
Or so it would seem.I went to the Challenger Superstore at Funan Centre (oh no, sorry, it’s Funan Digitalife Mall now) to look for a scanner. Having found one that I wanted to buy, I headed to the checkout counter and prepared to pay. That’s when it began to get… interesting.Now, Challenger has a membership system that’s tied to your NRIC number (for …
When I was in Beijing in April, we (my girlfriend, sister, friends and I) noticed a fair number of interesting signs. There have been numerous reports of such things on varyingly reputable sites, but nothing could have quite prepared us for what we actually encountered. Here are some of the ones I managed to catch on camera, and my sister has already posted a few others among …
I just watched the newest Transformers trailer. The trailer looked pretty good, as you’d expect a trailer to look, but I still have some apprehensions about how the movie is going to turn out. At the very least it’ll be a fun action flick, but whether or not it’s a good Transformers flick is another matter entirely.One thing in the trailer which caught my …
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