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This Cold Storage is charged. With static electricity, that is. How many times have I come to this particular branch at King Albert Park and always find myself painfully zapped by static electricity. Touch this — Zap. Touch ...
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It is so difficult to find a place for lunch this festive season! I tried calling one day ahead to reserve a table, but many restaurants were already fully booked. In fact, it may be a horrendously expensive place, but they can ...
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Sometimes I just can’t help but think that some Americans don’t realize that the world is much larger than their country. The latest episode comes from a DNS report generated by DNSStuff.com which gave a score of ...
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Let’s say, while on guard duty, you want to get out of camp to buy dinner. What should you do? You could sneak out and hope not to get caught, or you could ask for permission and most likely find your request rejected (and ...
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In today’s Straits Times, an F-16C fighter from Tengah Air Base strikes 6 farms in Sungei Tengah, causing 200 tonnes of greens to be destroyed. It seems that red dye being tested on the ground by the Black Knights aerial ...
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As I drove around the F1 race track (to-be) this morning, I noted how like everywhere else in Singapore the road surface was so scarred by incessant trenching works, and there were so many little detours because road works were ...
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That’s how it is with captive portals, you are redirected to a web page to login, and there you have to type your username and password. Can you imagine how inconvenient it is to login from a mobile device such as a mobile ...
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“Just one Zinger burger to go.”
“Okay. Having here?”
“No, to go.”
“Having here?”
Okay, she doesn’t understand “to go”. Alright, perhaps most of us would say ...
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What do students at NUS do? Shop of course. Why, it’s the National University of Shopping Singapore. Is this a shopping centre in disguise? Week after week, it is one bazaar after another. At multiple locations, no less. ...
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Ian Murdock came by in the past week to talk about his open source journey from Linux at Purdue University, founding the Debian project, and now working as the Chief OS Platform Strategist for Sun Microsystems. I suppose he ...