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Let me hao lian about my personal port number. I was just reading about CARP, the Common Address Resolution Protocol, this afternoon and learnt about how they failed to secure a protocol number from IANA (Internet Assigned ...
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I recently bought a copy of Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition. It carries a street price of about S$120 in Singapore, which is about the same as what you can get off from Amazon (US$84.99). I get to install it on up ...
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It’s an interesting thought. What if one day, you select a university education by comparing prices, facilities, location, bundled freebies, guarantees, loan schemes, and reviews? What if one day, your university education ...
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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 ...
