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Always ready, what come may. | The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) celebrates its 55th anniversary this year. The public open house held over this weekend begun with a heavy downpour, but instead of dampening ...
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This isn’t a political blog. However, in this current run up to the Presidential Election 2023, I cannot resist sharing some rants.
The first time ever our Elected Presidency ever had a legitimate competition was in ...
Technology
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Ultracompact 2-in-1 convertible with gaming DNA hidden in plain sight | I’ve reviewed quite a lot of ASUS laptops here on this blog. This ROG Flow X13 (2023) catches my fancy in quite a few ways, mostly because ...
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As a long time Pixel user, I think the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is dope. | I’m a fairly loyal Google Pixel smartphone user. I think Samsung’s flagship smartphone this year, the Galaxy S23 Ultra, is pretty ...
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The S Pen stylus is quite fun to use. | It’s just a stylus. Steve Jobs once said “Yuck” about needing a stylus. I never much appreciated styluses until I tried the Samsung S Pen for the Galaxy Tab ...
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A portable keyboard that I can actually get productive work done with. | This post is one part a quick review of the Samsung Smart Keyboard Trio 500, and another part about keyboards for tablets in general. I searched ...
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An exceptional Android tablet for work and play. | The Google Pixel Tablet is coming next month, and Samsung’s 2023 flagship Galaxy Tab S9 is expected in a couple of months. But if you’re looking for an ...
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There's a better way to keep VSCode's and WSL'2 SSH in sync now. | How does one get the SSH used by VSCode’s Remote-SSH plugin to use the same configuration and keys as that in WSL2? This was a problem I solved ...
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Saving an old Android tablet with a community-driven Android project. | I recently gained a renewed interest in tablets, and although I have a new Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, I still wanted to take out my old Nexus 7 ...
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QUIC is actually quicker than HTTP/2. | I like data. So when I said in my last post about QUIC and HTTP/3 that I didn’t have statistical data for comparison, I realised that I really need to get that sorted out. ...
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Is this remake any good in 2023? | Sometimes, a product is so good, the company that makes it launches a renewed version with exactly the same name. This is what Samsung has done with their Galaxy Tab S6 Lite. It ...
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Is QUIC quick enough? We'll find out. | Today, as you access my website, there are two under-the-hood changes. The first is a move from Apache to Nginx software, and the other, is the new support for QUIC and HTTP/3. ...
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7 mins to think about all other traffic marshalling gripes. | I waited seven minutes yesterday for traffic marshallers to change the direction of traffic in my favour. I understand some temporary inconvenience is ...
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Going back in history to look at some memorable phones | Recently, while clearing out some stuff from storage, I found a stash of old mobile phones. Stuff that I had used once upon a time. I thought it’ll be fun ...
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This turns wired IEMs into an awesome true wireless earphones. | One of the things I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time was to turn my favourite pair of custom in-ear monitors (CIEM) into a pair of true ...
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Never buy from them again. | I rarely like to single out a company to complain about them. But there’s this one that has angered me tremendously, and particularly because they appear to enjoy a rather positive ...
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I am kind of resigned to accepting poor service. | I wrote this a week ago. It rained. My shoes and socks were wet. I was annoyed. I had a frustrating experience with someone’s customer service that day. And the ...
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The bits that go into a desk setup. | Happy new year 2023! Many people seem to share about their desk setups, so I thought I’d also do that for this first post of 2023. It’s going to be a little bit more ...
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Just about everything that most people want. | Alongside the great Pixel 7 smartphones, Google also launched their Pixel Buds Pro earbuds this year. This would be their fourth time at making earphones, and this time, ...
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Jeju Driving 101 for Singaporeans | For free-and-easy travellers to Jeju, there are two options to get around: use public transport or get a rental car. I was originally considering the former, but fortunately, ...
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Nothing is back with new earbuds. | Nothing is back with a new thing. It’s a new earphone, the Nothing Ear (stick). You might think it’s an update to last year’s Nothing Ear (1). That’s not ...
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Keeping watch on credit card fraud. | So it came to be, after so many years, that a credit card fraud happened to me. The card fraud itself is not much of a story to tell. But there are other things about it that are ...