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Technovatus.com
It’s Sunday and toomorrow, I back in the office after a 2 weeks break. Time sure pass really quick when I’m having fun. Anyways, it’s 3 days in the office and I’m on my yearly military service callup come Thursday. After that, I have 2 more years remaining to finish my reservist cycle. All of [...]
Happy New Year - 2009
I hope you folks have been enjoying your break and spending quality time with family and friends. As for me, I’m getting a lot of tube time. Other then that, I had time to do some blogging and updating other stuff online. Best of all, I made some new images and favicons for my weblog. [...]
Merry Christmas and Photo My World
Right, it’s Christmas Eve and like myself, some of you folks are probably on a long break or perhaps off on a vacation. Myself, I’m on a 2 weeks break to nowhere. Fortunately, I do have some time to catch up on my blogs. For those of you who don’t already know, I have a [...]
Microsoft SideWinder Products
I was on Amazon checking out delivery dates for some of my purchases and I saw the latest line-up in Microsoft’s SideWinder series. The Microsoft SideWinder X6 Keyboard looked really cool but I have little use for it now until I build my own desktop PC since my R60 already has a keyboard. The ‘not [...]
AirAsia and LCCT crap
I had booked a flight to Kuala Lumpur for Thursday, 11 Dec and return back to Singapore on Sunday, 14 Dec. Prior to booking my flight, I considered the budget airlines AirAsia and JetStar Airways for economical reasons. Though the client was picking up the tab for my travel, it never hurts to find the [...]
A Teochew funeral
I’m on the road and figured i posted an entry via WordPress for iPhone. Granny passed away on Thursday morning. Time of death was 5am as stated. At 89, she’s led a good life. In the last few years of her life, she choose to live on her own with a maid. I guess amongst [...]
Rough week
The week started off with our first team offsite in Bintan, Indonesia. The offsite in my mind was a fruitful one with reviews on what we did well as a team this year and key areas of focus for 2009. Personally, I took away a lot from the offsite. At the same time, I was [...]
Teredo tunneling mess and testing Eset NOD32
I haven’t been able to get online since last weekend at home until now. I checked my ADSL modem router, restarted the device, reset the device to factory default but alas, I couldn’t figure out the mess. Given that my ISP technical support operates during business hours, there was absolutely no help. Calling tech support [...]
Going back into webhosting business
It’s been awhile since I put my webhosting business on hold when I took my current job. Finally decided to get back into webhosting again. I’m still on my job though. This time, I’ve got a technical team to provide support when I’m unavailable. Man, I forgot the things I had to get ready.
There was [...]
Commuters in Singapore not getting off easy
It’s been a good 3 months since I last took the train to the office in the morning. During this time, cab fare per round trip averaged $70 daily. Multiply that by 20 working days and it’s a whopping $1,400 a month just to get to and fro the office. The part of all this, [...]
iPhone 2.0 vs. BlackBerry Storm vs. HTC Touch Diamond vs. HTC Dream G1
It’s slightly more than 24 hrs after I picked up my iPhone but I haven’t gotten to play around with it much. The iPhone does look sleek with it’s high gloss finish. Unless you don’t mind fingerprints all over, I got a leather case to slip it into. There is already a slew of new [...]
New toy - iPhone 2.0
Yup, got the iPhone to replace my SE P1i. The Sony had been acting up the past few weeks and dropping my calls in the middle of a client conversation. When my client calls me back, the ‘Answer’ tab is greyed out on the touchscreen and I can’t pick up the call. The only solution [...]
WordPress Plugins - OpenID
In an earlier post, I mentioned the WP-Gravatar plugin which is OpenID ready. The full functionality of the plugin of course depends on whether you have downloaded and installed the OpenID plugin too. If you have not yet done that or are wondering what OpenID is, visit OpenID.net to learn more.
Interesting facts
I got an email yesterday. It’s one of those that your mates will forward to a thousand other folks and you happen to be one of them. Anyone, I thought heck… might as well post it here.
Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know you’re there.
Dentists [...]
F8-Lite Theme
Now this is much better. Got my ‘Contact Station‘ working. Meaning I can remove that email link reducing chances of me getting hit by spam. Even the Google Search bar sits nicely to the right. Using the F8 Lite Theme here.
Diana Krall Live @ Fort Canning Park anyone?
I’m more than a little under the weather today. The flu started since last Friday and I have been to the doctor’s twice. On the second visit, the locum finally concluded it was a sinus attack. I haven’t had one of those in 5 to 6 years until recently. The latest was when I was [...]
Chill pill after a week of turmoil
The past week on Wall Street had many on jittery nerves. I thought since it’s a weekend, a little humour would be just what we needed.
Photo courtesy of Photo My World
Week of turmoil on Wall Street
After a week of sell-offs and dumping of shares through short selling, The Dow climbs a crucial 368 points to close the week. Whether that upward motion pattern will hold for the next week remains to be seen. I watch this short video on why governments would save banks and a few messages hit home. [...]
Feds issue a $85B lifeline in AIG bailout
At a time when all eyes are on Wall Street with Lehman Brothers being the latest victim after Bear Stearns in March this year. The Federal Reserve steps in to bailout the ailing AIG in a bid to plug but a hole in what looks to be a sinking ship. Just earlier, The Dow was [...]
Dow Jones dives 500 points and Lehman Brothers’s $639B bankruptcy
Apart from the breaking news of World War III (which I hope will never happen), this has to be a piece of news that will rock global economies in the coming months. Given the time of the year, I’m expecting the effects will be felt well through Christmas and beyond. The Dow Jones Index has [...]
iTunes 8
Apple just released the latest iTunes upgrade. On launching iTunes, you should notice a fresh look and user-interface. Get the latest iTunes download here.
7th 9-11 Memorial
7 years after the 9-11 tragedy, Bin Laden is still at large. Incidentally, The movie ‘World Trade Center‘ starring Nicholas Cage was aired on cable yesterday evening.
Two Chinese boys to crack up your Monday
To keep the Monday Blues away, I thought I shared this video with you folks. It’s not new but it still cracks me up each time I watch it. Enjoy and have a great week ahead!
Spore - Destruction of Earth
This is basically a lame excuse to post and test the video capabilities of my new blog theme. Well, I was setting up my Amazon Wishlist earlier this morning and incidentally, I chanced upon this video featuring Electronic Art’s latest PC game below. Yup, this one is on my list.
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