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It’s been a little quiet here lately, so thought I’d put up some macro shots that I recently took.Writing is CheapUp CloseTextLensThey’re not all in original colour though. I touched up some like Up Close and Writing is Cheap in GIMP. Just a little blurring here, and a colour tweak there.. nothing much.
Aaand it looks like the day has finally come for Spotify to launch its music service!From the information seen so far, it looks like they’ve managed to sign deals with seven music record companies, including Universal Music Group, EMI Music, Warner Music Group, Sony BMG, Merlin, The Orchard and Bonnier Amigo.Spotify launches today, 7 Oct ...
Came across this announcement on The Pirate Bay today. Apparently, Swedish artist Timbuktu (wiki) just released his new single straight to the file sharing community for fans to download.H …
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } MissCentralLibrary, originally uploaded by ruiwen. School facilities certainly seem to have been upgraded some.
I love webcomics.I love xkcd.I love the romance.I love the geekery.I love the whole world.And all its EEEs.Boom De Yada Boom De YadaBoom De Yada Boom De YadaI love the hackers.I love escalators.I love programmers.I love velociraptors.I love the whole worldAnd all its kooky bloggers!Boom De Yada Boom De YadaBoom De Yada Boom De YadaI ...
Righto. Here’s a chance to get in on something cool. Want to help set a world record? (That’s World Record, with a capital ‘W’ and ‘R’ yet!)Here’s what you do:Head on over to the official Firefox Download Day 2008 site.Click on the big button that says “Pledge Now“Fill that in properly, and submit your pledge ...
This post comes in a little late. I’m sure almost everyone would have heard by now about how the geniuses at VueStar Technologies in Singapore have tried to enforce their patent on any “Web site that uses pictures and graphics to link to another site or Web page”.While the patent itself only describes the invention ...
The second BarCamp Singapore will be held tomorrow! Will you be attending?BarCamp Singapore II: Maps and Mobile will be held at the NUS Extension at Park Mall, near Dhoby Ghaut (beside the Fish & Co. Glass House?), from 630pm onwards.Check out more details over at their wiki page.Remember to also check out the presentations in ...
“GTA IV: The Sims, for guys.” - I was inspired by this quote from Ramkumar
I sat for a paper not too long back, on the subject of Business Law (BSP1004A, Legal Environment of Business, for you NUS folk). Pretty much of the syllabus revolved around the various statutes surrounding stuff like Company Law, Contract Law and the Sales of Goods Act (wonderfully descriptive names, don’t you think?).Anyways, it hit ...
I’m glad we’re hearing news that Microsoft is walking away from Yahoo! for now. No comments, strategy-, or prospects-wise for the two companies, I just don’t like the idea of Microsoft own …
“Guilty”, says the jury.Hans Reiser, creator of the open source Reiserfs filesystem used on Linux systems, was arrested on 10 October 2006, charged with murdering his Russian wife, Nina Reiser. After a trial spanning six months, the jury in the Reiser murder trial has apparently found him guilty of murder in the first degree. This ...
Guess what I found in my inbox today?For a moment, that kind of made my day. I mean, I’ve been waiting almost a year for this mail to arrive. No kidding. I applied for the beta after reading GigaOm’s post about Xcerion’s Internet OS, XIOS (now apparently renamed icloud). That was on 1 April last ...
Internal corporate videos are apparently all the rage these days. Here’s showing you two of the latest and greatest. Who rocks more? MDA or Microsoft?Media Development Authority, SingaporeMicrosoft via Gizmodo
Here’s a breath of fresh air in the murky world of alleged copyright infringement and associated lawsuits. Recently, the MPAA (Motion Pictures Association of America) sent a letter to Norwegian ISPs, demanding that they disconnect alleged file-sharers from their network. The MPAA’s letter included a list of IP addresses, which they claim carried out the ...
“You have a good knowledge of Unix and a girlfriend. Not many people can say that” - Neal Stephenson’s ‘Cryptonomicon’ (as seen on a certain forummer’s signature)
It’s just so true!Unfortunately..<rant>I so identify with the second situation now. Ever tried wading through hundreds of lines of uncommented code?I’ve got this project, see? I need to build on it to add features, see? I need some documentation to understand how it works, see?Comments in the code would help, which unfortunately, I don’t see. ...
Here’s a question: How do you dispose of/recycle unwanted tech items? I’m looking at an every growing pile of items that I no longer need/want/use. Old mobile phone chargers, old mobile phones, old printers, dead harddisks and the like. I don’t really want to just toss them in the trash since I figure they’re using ...
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Not Interactive, originally uploaded by ruiwen.
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