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Sony’s RX100 (pictured on left) is amazing. From the original model launched in 2012, each successive generation every year after has made small but important improvements. Sony has just announced the fourth generation, ...
| Technology
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I’m beginning to lose count the number of times I’ve reinstalled Office for Mac 2011, so it is becoming really annoying. Here I am a dutiful customer signed up with the cloud subscription of Office 365. Yet I’m ...
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I feel it’s particularly important that service standards at Changi Airport must be exemplary. It is, after all, going to form the first impressions that visitors to Singapore will get. However, my standards aren’t ...
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At some time or other, probably just about all drivers will find themselves enraged with some other driver. It could be reckless driving, idiotic parking, or a variety of other inconsiderate road behaviour. It’s fortunate, ...
| Miscellaneous
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Five years ago, as Singapore hosted the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, I complained about how discourteous the organisers had portrayed themselves. First, it was about demanding that their buses be given the right-of-way, and ...
| Technology
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Over a year ago, I put Tomato, an alternative router firmware, on my Cisco Linksys E3200 wireless broadband router. Several new versions have been released since then, but I’ve been procrastinating about upgrading. I ...
| Lifestyle & Family
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Dinosaurs are in town. It’s not just Jurassic World, or the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum at NUS. There’s a bunch of them at United Square Shopping Mall. In fact, there’s also two of them at Plaza ...
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Singapore’s been talking about smart homes for some time. In the news earlier this week was about the first smart Housing Board homes, which will be launched this month. Just how smart are these smart homes? Not very. In ...
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3D printers are really nice. The troublesome thing about them is that you need to create your 3D design model in a computer, saved into STL format and then sent to the printer. What if you just wanted to sketch something ...
| Technology
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At work, yesterday, we were clearing out some stores from various secret network locations, and something unusual caught my eye. A picture of raspberries. Among the stacks of various boring manuals, disclaimer sheets, warranty ...
