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Ever since I started blogging about the ebook reader, I’ve received quite a bit of enquiries on buying an electronic ink device in Singapore. My usual answer would be to buy it from either B&H or Amazon. Shipping in ebook readers in this manner has a problem. The lack of warranty coverage in Singapore might ...
Sony released a new firmware for the PRS-505 over the weekend. This firmware releases brought new features to my ebook reader; and it also gave me something very interesting to play with. If you botch a firmware update in the past, you’re basically stuck with a brick. This firmware update allows you to recover from ...
Just attended Jia Hao’s final send off. It was solemn, yet tinged with emotions. I felt his dad’s sorrow as he sat alone at the table, mourning his passage. I saw his friends crying as his coffin was carried past them. I felt the pain of his buddy who was with him when he collapsed. ...
Having been inactive in the Ubuntu Singapore scene for almost the whole year, I’ve recently gotten involved in the design of the Logo for Ubuntu Singapore.The initial variations of logo designs started out with just color variations of the logo, but using red/white combination meant that the logo will look damn ugly against white backgrounds. ...
I’ve taken some time out to write a guide for hacking the Sony Ebook Reader to get Unicode fonts working. I’ll be adding more guides for the reader as I go along.http://xp.sg/hacks/unicode-support-for-prs-505/
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I’ve been away from blogging for awhile as life becomes significantly busier towards the end of the year. I’ll be doing my 2nd marathon this coming weekend and I hope I will not get injured or overstrain myself. I am seriously considering micro-blogging using twitter and Lifestream, which is more useful for me since I ...
By the end of today, I would have completed 26 orbits around the sun.I do not really feel anything special about birthdays, except the ones that give you certain legal rights. Having been past the age of 21, there is nothing I really look forward to as I’ve gotten all my legal rights.I’ve finished 3 ...
I chanced upon a thread in HWZ’s Book Nook about a bunch of students who are collecting books for Sri Lankan kids and decided to do my part by donating my old books to them. Most of my books are science fiction and fantasy novels, written by the likes of Sir Arthur C. Clarke and ...
I’ve finally got about to using the twitter account I registered back in February 2008 to update my facebook status. Of course, I wouldn’t be satisfied with just updating my facebook status using twitter. I reckoned that this blog’s “description” is kinda boring, so I decided to display my latest twitter status as my blog ...
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