Yummy Quesadilla

Quesadilla currently on the promotion menu at Seah Street Deli. Yummy. Oops started eating first before taking the photo — Posted from my N73 Lifeblog.

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A Very Very Hot Data Centre

Data centres pack lots of cool technology in them. The technology make them hot. Literally hot too, considering the amount of heat they dissipate. Now, combine that with a cooling crisis and you truly have a recipe for disaster. Here’s what happened recently in a data centre I run. An unfortunate turn of events led to both the primary and backup cooling systems to fail together. Basically, the entire server area was without any cooling at all. As you can…

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What’s the Point of ZapCode

Why do we sometimes like to re-invent the wheel? Maybe that’s still okay if you’re making a better wheel, but what’s the point of driving up hype on yet another wheel, or worse, an inferior wheel? Case in point: ZapCode from Singapore Press Holdings. It’s basically a 2-D bar code. How very fascinating. But hey, 2-D bar codes have been around for like over a decade or two. The most popular ones in use today are Data Matrix and QR…

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Vanessa Celebrates 5th Month

Vanessa celebrated her 5th month birthday yesterday enjoying 2 meals of baby goo. She is so excited with her food, and you can hardly feed her fast enough for her liking. See how she grabs the spoon and pushes it into her month. And she refuses to let go of her spoon! She must be thinking: “Food comes out from the spoon, why does mummy and daddy keep taking away my spoon?! I want my spoon back! Give it back!…

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