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The whole family visited Cafe Cartel for breakfast a few days ago. The kids wanted McDonalds, the Wife wanted something Chinese, and in the end we compromised. What the kids really wanted was hash brown, and Cafe Cartel does ...
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I saw this QR Code posted in an advertisement appearing in the Sunday Times yesterday. QR Codes are not unfamiliar to me. I’ve known about a few types of 2-D codes for a long time. QR Codes are not entirely new in our mass ...
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Our family vacation, this year, was to Hong Kong. We spent 8 days, two weeks ago, taking our time to visit the things that tourists visit. The two kids came along. This is the second overseas vacation for Ian. We didn’t ...
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My Samsung Galaxy S II had a problem with its display: there was a yellowish tinted circular spot, roughly the size of a 5-cent coin, near the lower left edge of the screen. The spot had probably been there since the beginning, ...
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I was going to write something to diss the new iPhone 4S. But the legendary visionary behind the iPhone passed on, and I think we should take the moment, instead, to pay tribute to the man who has changed the face of computing, ...
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Ian has started going to school today. It’s the same child care centre that Vanessa attends. He arrived at the centre, loitered around the common area with Vanessa for a while, then was introduced to his classroom. He ...
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Much as I enjoy working with Mac OS X, and think it is so much more fun than Windows XP, Vista, or 7, there are some issues with it that I’m having. The chief problem is that, from time to time, my MacBook Pro (MBP) does ...
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This topic came up for discussion recently. How much of the underlying technology (such as network, server, operating system, etc) does a programmer need to know in order to write good programs? A colleague held the belief that, ...
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I was recently asked a simple question, but it turned out to be awfully difficult to answer: “What is the difference between iPhone and Android?” It was asked, quite obviously, by a lay person. First of all, the ...
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It’s something that has been happening for a long time – the hogging of seats at dining places and perhaps just about any other place of business with air-con and comfortable chairs. But it didn’t go as far back ...
