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Ever since hearing about Jonathan Coulton’s “Code Monkey” on Net@Nite, I’ve been picking up Jonathan Coulton’s songs. I first heard him on the audiobook version of John Hodgman’s “The Areas of my Expertise”, and never quite realised what a great musician he was until I started listening to his music. He sells his songs cheaply, …
iDisk seems a little less stable in Leopard than it used to be in Tiger, as Jon points out. Apart from the speed issue — which I generally don’t notice since I hardly use my iDisk fo …
Last night Rhodora, one of my colleagues here who’s Filipino, took me out to San Francisco to have dinner with her and her cousins. We met them at their hotel in downtown SF, then walked about 45 minutes to Japantown where we ate some really good Japanese food. Then we walked another hour or so to Ghirardelli Square near Fisherman’s Wharf for some really good …
Several times now, Singapore has appeared on the top searches list on Technorati. From Sarong Party Girl and NKF in mid-2005, to Daphne Teo and Dawn Yang in late 2005, the Tammy sex video in early 2006, and Wee Shu Min just last October, there’s no denying that Singapore has often managed to find top spots in blogosphere rankings.Today, as I was visiting the coComment …
I guess I should do some sort of birthday post. It’s a nice geeky number too: Three to the power of three. So, happy belated birthday me, I suppose.This was possibly the first time I celebrated with three large-ish meals almost back to back (dinner on Saturday night at Brazil Churrasco at Sixth Avenue, Sunday ...
This makes me feel a lot better about my own poor command of Mandarin. Perhaps the Chinese government should learn from Singapore and initiate a heavily-hyped yet utterly ineffective ̶ …
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 ...
Just this afternoon, I was thinking that I needed to move out of my parents’ place, if only to increase my appreciation for my parents. Then conversation over drinks tonight turned to other parents, and their flaws, and I thought to myself that the only thing I can find fault with my parents for is that my mom almost always cooks a meal for me without telling me first, …
Xkcd makes an excellent point for piracy. The fact that I am supporting this should come as no surprise to many, but it’s important that consumers of digital content understand what kind of economy they’re buying into.Don’t think that this applies only to the two examples mentioned in the comic. Every piece of DRMed content ...
I’m lovin’ it. I really am. California is great, so far. The weather is fantastic at this time of the year: it’s slightly chilly, there’s almost always a cool breeze blowing, and in the day the combination of wind and sun is to die for. It gets a little cold at night, but I can still easily walk around in a thin long-sleeve tee without freezing to …
Hello, Straits Times editors. I know you guys like to think you’re ahead of the curve and use hip words that aren’t mainstream yet but you seem to have a tendency to do so wrongly. “Printscreen” isn’t a word at all except when it is incorrectly used by people who don’t know any better.The word ...
You know, it’s not that I particularly enjoy ragging on the Straits Times for their numerous editorial errors — no, wait, that’s not true. I do enjoy it greatly. And they make …
I know that the only thing this means is that Leo finally made his way through the undoubtedly vast queue of people lining up to be his Facebook friend and got around to adding me, and nothing more than that, but it still made my day to see this in my Facebook mini feed. Some rights ...
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, ...
Penny Arcade alerted me to this trailer for the new Kingdom Hearts 2: Final Mix game. The last time Square released a Final Mix, I was sorely disappointed to discover that it did not have English text like Final Fantasy X International did, and ended up getting the PAL version of Kingdom Hearts instead. This time around, though, my ability to comprehend Japanese is …
My new 20″ iMac arrived today. I posted a bunch of unpacking pics in my Flickr account, as is the tradition for anyone receiving a new Apple product. I’m incredibly pleased with this purchase, so far — though admittedly, the 4 year build-up of anticipation might have pushed me along somewhat — and I’m certainly glad to be replacing my aging …
This is part of Creative’s brilliant new ad campaign for their X-Fi Titanium. As a gamer myself I find this somewhat derogatory and offensive. Besides which, how is a sound card going to help you “pwn face”? Some rights reserved | Permalink | 0 replies Add to del.icio.us Search blogs linking this post with Technorati
As mentioned on the recent two episodes of the excellent Security Now podcast, an vulnerability in Windows (both XP and Vista) was recently discovered and there are now code samples of remote code exploits available utilising this vulnerability. Long story short: if you are still unfortunate enough to be using Windows, make sure you patch ...
Somehow I missed the news about an Iraqi journalist throwing shoes at President Bush, but I certainly didn’t miss this post on BoingBoing showcasing some animated gifs parodying the event.Here are my two favourites: Some rights reserved | Permalink | 0 replies Add to del.icio.us Search blogs linking this post with Technorati
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 ...
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