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Yes, yes, I know, for a “techie” person, I’m awfully behind time moving on to Windows 7. The Windows 8 consumer preview is already out in the wild, and I’m only just getting around to putting Windows 7 on ...
| Miscellaneous
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We have our own version of the Coca Cola Friendship Machine. If you’re around in the NUS area tomorrow, head over to the foyer area in front of LT14. Locate the Coca Cola vending machine, just like the one pictured here, ...
| Lifestyle & Family
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The La Tanglin Boulangerie is a cozy little cafe located in the basement of Tanglin Mall. Yes, that’s the mall in the corner of Tanglin Road and Grange Road that became flooded from torrential rain last year. It’s a ...
| Technology
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Canonical recently showed off Ubuntu running on an Android smartphone at the Mobile World Congress. It looks really cool. I’ve been thinking about an idea like this for some time. Smartphones are getting really powerful. ...
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I now have a Facebook page for this blog. It’s at facebook.com/zitseng.com. Please help me “like” the page! You can follow blog updates through Facebook when you’ve liked the ...
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I was flipping through our Land Transport Authority’s Land Transport Master Plan recently. A couple of statistics caught my attention. One of it is about taxis. According to the LTA, there are 5,129 taxis per million ...
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It was $78K last month, and I thought it was already a ridiculous price to pay for that certificate of entitlement to own a car. The first bidding exercise this month saw a modest increase to $79K. But last evening, the results ...
| Technology
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In all the recent excitement over the ICS release for the Samsung Galaxy S II (SGS2), I forgot there was also news about the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S III (SGS3). Yes, the 3rd generation Galaxy S. You didn’t think Samsung ...
| Technology
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I was a little intrigued when I saw an advertisement for an ultra-thin USB thumb drive. The advertisement boasted the thumb drive’s 4mm thickness (or, well, thinness). Sounds thin? Well, not quite. I’ve been using ...
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It hasn’t really been a long time since my last “state of my blog” update. The last was when I wrote about WordPress 3.3, or if you don’t count that, then when I announced I had outsourced the hosting of ...