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I’ve been on the hunt for playgrounds. Particularly, indoor playgrounds that are preferably reasonably centrally located. It’s so that I’ve somewhere to bring the kids to. It’ll be good if there were other ...
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You know about the MacBook Air. You’ve probably also heard about the Asus Zenbook. It has sometimes (or often, depending on who you ask) been described as the better Wintel ultrabook alternative to the MacBook Air. ...
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I’ve always been wary of upgrading any Linux box. Something usually breaks. So although it would be nice to have the latest software, in recent years I have never been too eager to be the first. I suppose I’ve lost ...
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I follow some documentary series on National Geographic like Air Crash Investigation and Seconds From Disaster. When I read our Committee of Inquiry (COI) report on the SMRT breakdowns in December last year, I can’t help ...
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Just like I’ve been a long time Linux user, I’ve also used Solaris for a long time. Not the whole time throughout, no doubt. But I did have SunOS on what I could call my personal workstation back in the mid 1990s. ...
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Another oft asked question is about using a Mac in school. Specifically, in NUS, since that’s where I work. This post is a lot more focused on users in NUS, although I’m sure several points are going to be quite ...
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The DBS ATM skimming fraud that took place earlier this year has probably made more Singaporeans aware of this sort of crime than ever before. Banks have had, both before and after that incident, installed various types of ...
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One of the most spectacular product announcements I’ve seen happened at Macworld in 2008. Steve Jobs was delivering his keynote when, at one point, he walked to the podium, picked up a manila envelope, and from within, ...
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While on the other side of the world Amazon’s AWS was battling electrical storms, our humble Disaster Recovery (DR) Drill was battling small electrical fires this morning. Every DR Drill we run has always had some form of ...
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June has been a busy month for computer and mobile techies. Apple and Google held their developer conferences. Both events were as much about software as they were about new hardware announcements. The gadgets did not stop there. ...
