WordPress version 2.7 beta 2 was released yesterday, with the final version 2.7 expected end of this month. There are significant new features, some of which require some updates to themes to support the new functionality. I’ve started to update my WordPress theme Simplicity to support the new version 2.7 features. I’d guess Simplicity is probably one of the earliest to update support for 2.7.
I’ve found a few misfeatures of M1 Fixed Broadband that are significant enough to be show stoppers for me. Although these are not really secrets or purposely hidden misfeatures, they are not obviously stated up-front. I believe the more “techie” broadband users would not tolerate such misfeatures too, so I thought I will share about them before anyone commits themselves to a subscription contract.
After one postponement due to bad weather, and another due to scheduling difficulties, we finally made our excursion “flight” on the Singapore Flyer. Personally, after having gone up enough ferris wheels, observation towers, etc, I had not expected to be particularly exhilarated by the views from atop the Singapore Flyer. But being a Singaporean and living in Singapore, it is something we have to try. So we went on the 6pm flight in order to catch the view of Singapore at sunset time.
It’s the RSAF’s 40th anniversary this year. The last couple of years, the RSAF (and to some extent Mindef as a whole as well) seems to be making lots of effort to reach out to its “men” in more personal ways, to re-invent itself and to run itself like a modern private corporation. This is not bad, of course, since there are certainly some things that military organizations can learn from the private sector too.
Vanessa attended her first Halloween party last night. The party was organized by our condominium. All the kids were supposed to be dressed up in costumes. Adults were spared. Vanessa was dressed up in a pumpkin costume made by my wife, and here in the photo, she’s holding on to her cousin’s sword.
I was coming home a couple of days ago when I saw this at a bus stop advertisement display. I’ve been playing with Drupal lately, and I just thought how familiar the logo seems to be. For a moment, I was thinking how interesting to see Drupal publicity at a bus stop in Singapore. Check out the Drupal website. Quite some similarities eh?
We went to the newly renovated New Garo Japanese Restaurant for dinner last night. They’ve done up some simple renovations to brighten up the place and make the place feel less congested. It seems like there is less seating now, although that may be because the place just feels more spacious. Still the same staff, and the food is still as good as ever.
I am re-evaluating my broadband contract options again, and wanted to find details about M1 Fixed Broadband offers. So I head over to Google to search for M1 Fixed Broadband. Lo and behold… the top hit (at least for now) leads straight back to my own blog posting. I had expected to find M1’s website to be the top hit, but well it turned out to be number 2.
One of the cute little things that Vanessa tries to do is to type on my notebook. Here’s one of the snapshot that my Nokia N95 8GB phone managed to capture. Looking like a real professional eh? Both parents are quite IT savvy, so the baby must have quite naturally picked up computer skills.
Don’t you sometimes feel like helpdesks are not very helpful? Or wonder what is the purpose or point of having a helpdesk? I very often do. In fact, sometimes I feel like the objective of helpdesk is not so much as to help customers, but to help its company reduce the number of incidents it actually has to handle. It’s like as if helpdesks have a KPI that measures the number of support calls it successfully turns away.
Vanessa's hand picked selection of flowers from the garden.
— Posted from my N95 Lifeblog.
This scholarly chinese restaurant at the new NUS Guild House serves up pretty good coffee flavoured pork ribs. The other dishes were quite mediocre though.
— Posted from my N95 Lifeblog.
