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I learnt today was that a well-respected colleague, Dr Kwang Yoke Pin, passed away recently. At first I thought there was a typo in the message sent to me. A quick bit of Googling, however, led me to find another...
I was fortunate to gain a sneak preview of the new exhibition at the Peranakan Museum along Armenian Street, courtesy of the curator. My family donated some items so we were given a private tour. We often hear about Peranakan...
Just logged in. Check this post often for updates, or watch my Twitter updates. Great fanfare as HP heralds its achievements in an opening movie (will post clips later). Eric Cador (HP Europe) is giving the opening address, on the...
Here’s my account of how the panel went, with added thoughts thrown in. Kevin thinks it didn’t work out due to technical glitches, but I can assure him the audience loved him. I’ll add mor …
Look at Digg’s US Elections page, and it’s all about Barack Obama at the moment. It’s generally positive news about him, and if there is mention of Hillary Clinton, it’s negative. The hott …
My colleague alerted me to this. At first, I thought she was referring to our Mental Wellness campaign ad, where you can turn the frowney face around and it will become a smiley face. However, this looks like an...
HP aims to change personal computing with their new TouchSmart PC, with a completely touch-sensitive monitor and sleek user interface. Official press release Just added to HP’s website: In …
Hosted by Anastasia Goldstein and John Davison. I missed the first few introductory minutes but here are my real-time notes. There are 2 teens, one gal and one guy from UT. For web-based games, Flash is OK but the teens...
To wrap up my French revision for the night, I went to Lemonde.fr to read a spot of news in the beautiful language. Not surprisingly, the home page had a photo of Barack Obama and his newly-announced running mate Joe...
Popular feed reader for Mac OS. Acquired by Newsgator, but appears to remain free.Saved By: Vanessa Tan | View Details | Give ThanksTags: rss, feedreader, software, free of charge
Ivan’s just started one. Sign up at the new blog. I am actually more of a Logic Pro user but I did use GarageBand initially when I got my first Mac. Thanks to integration by Apple, who bou …
Official description: Oscar-winning actor/director, and country music musician Billy Bob Thornton has spent the last decade crafting one of the most unique and exciting careers in entertainment today. For SXSW attendees, he will sit and discuss the bridge between his...
Met up with Alan Rambam, Fleishman-Hillard’s youth and mobile marketing guru yesterday. We learnt about what was being done in the US and other countries such as location-based messages, S …
Anastasia Goldstein’s panel of 7 teens. From the Q&As it appears that each teen has different ways of using technology. All are on MySpace and a few are on Facebook. They don’t like complicated websites with lots of ads. Blonde...
…fell asleep earlier than expected, and woke up, also earlier than expected. Since that shouldn’t be happening on a public holiday, I went back to sleep. Sleep does magical things for mout …
… to go with my eggs and ham. A drink of note at SXSW 2008. Then I discovered they also serve green beer in Singapore. At the Red Dot Brewhouse. Now all we need is a Green Day album to...
I learnt that over the past week, my church website was hacked with the image of a flaming monkey on the home page. That image was quickly removed. This morning I was informed that our Joomla templates were messed with,...
Bonsoir. Je m’appelle Vanessa. Je suis étudiante a l’Alliance Française. Je voudrais améliorer mon Français. Il est vingt-trois heures est je suis fatigue. That’s about all I can recall / …
As some of my good friends know, I’m addicted to Mob Wars on Facebook. It’s become a bit less exciting now that I’ve bought every weapon and property that can be bought. It is also not ver …
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