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Apple’s Snow Leopard must really have put the pressure on Windows 7. Microsoft has announced a new educational pricing of just US$30. Yes, that matches Snow Leopard’s retail price of just US$29. But Microsoft’s ...
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The current hot game on the Internet is Monopoly City Streets. So hot that it crashed on day one. So hot that it had to be reset. So hot that on the day it as reincarnated, it ran into trouble again. If you’ve not yet ...
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No, not the first blog posting about our two year old daughter, but the first blog posting by our Vanessa. It’s her first ever post to a blog, at just a tender age of about 2 years and 5 months. Kids these days start early ...
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The two kids now have their own Facebook account. They don’t quite yet have their own email accounts though. Their email addresses are currently aliases that simply forward to my email account. It’s too bad that my ...
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I came across this sign on a toilet door recently: Disabled’s Toilet. I thought it sounded crude. Usually such toilet facilities are labeled as “Handicap Toilet”, or at least that is the case I most often see in ...
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At Apple’s special media event yesterday, Apple announced the immediate availability of entirely refreshed family of iPod devices. The new generation of iPod nano received the biggest upgrade, which includes a new video ...
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Today, and this time of day particularly, is one of those special moments in time where the day, month, year, hour and minute are all the same. It seems like a good time to post some rant at this auspicious minute. Yeah, I missed ...
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A hot topic going around in WordPress circles now is a worm making its rounds hijacking vulnerable WordPress installations, and how just a little effort on the part of administrators could have saved the trouble of cleaning up ...
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A colleague wanted to celebrate his birthday, so he treated a few of us to a meal at Cafe on the Ridge, a F&B outlet at the NUSS Guild House in Kent Ridge Campus. Usually I have the Nasi Goreng Kampung, but this time I ...
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Yes, President S R Nathan came by today, not to visit me, but just to visit my workplace. I’m not important enough, so I had to sneak a photo shot from far back, behind a glass wall. Hence the strange reflections you see ...