tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53453182011-11-27T15:48:01.997-08:00The world is getting more and more confusing everyday. Making sense of all these is making me TotallyConfused.dunPanichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15325955353521609594noreply@blogger.comBlogger1231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345318.post-68319304999046471582008-04-18T23:40:00.001-07:002008-04-18T23:40:56.035-07:00

Gadgets: Rubik's Cube For the LazyI solved the 3x3x3 some time ago, and just solved the 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 recently.  Just came across this post.  Maybe I needed spend so much time if I figured out I could solve it this way...hahahahaaBlogged with the Flock Browser

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Test posting from the Flock Browser.  Rather cool. :) Blogged with the Flock Browser

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I suffer from gout, a disease that has some of its causes in taking in too much of a certain kind of protein.  Some reports also suggests that rearing animals for food purposes increases carbon emission.  And there are a number of other reasons for getting used to a non-meat diet.  That's why I told myself that I want to try it out, just like how the vegetarians do it, on the 1st and the 15th of

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Testing blogging from email

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Something is quite wrong with me tonight. Just don't really feel like sleeping, although it is already 3:37am on the clock.Some urge to write, but the mind is blank when facing the edit box of the blog editor. It is not blank from having no thoughts, but it is too many thoughts competing for the processing time that my mind can spare for each of them, that left me with no coherent thoughts

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Bad day. Bluetooth ear piece not working, left wired headset in notebook bag which was left at friend’s place, and received a call from my mother while driving in the heavy rain to retrieve the notebook. I was not able to speak to my mother without a proper earpiece while I was driving, and the loudspeaker mode just did not seem to work properly.I stopped the car at a carpark and returned my

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This much I can tell you about this game1. The name of the Game is "PETAL AROUND THE ROSES", and it is significant.2. The answer of each roll is either 0 or an even number.Try it, you might just get hooked to it.P.S. and I am sworn to secrecy about the algorithm to the answer, so begging me does not work. *wink*

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Take this survey if you live in Singapore and looks forward to lowering your power bills.

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Came across dropping knowledge today. The film featured in the home page tells of how Isrealis and Palestinian can work and play together.Interesting initiative, which aims to turn apathy into activity. Can this work in our context?

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There are hundreds, or even thousands of email marketing sites out there that claims that you can earn money from reading emails of their advertisements. Too bad these companies are usually U.S.-based and a lot of the advertisements turn out to be useless to someone like me staying in Singapore. Enters EmailCashPro.com, a Singapore Email Marketing Site that was just launched on 1 July 2006. A

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The last thing I expected from the fellow driver who pulled up alongside my car while stopping at a red-light junction was the question: "You want home theatre system?"I was on my way to work in the late morning today, and stopped at a red-light junction. I heard some loud thumping coming from my left, and the driver in the van that pulled up beside me caught my attention. Having past

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You might think that living in Singapore is reasonably comfortable, with the basic needs available within your reach: cheap food, cheap electricity, clean water.Think again. If you did not already know, there is now a growing awareness of a Crisis (with a capital 'C') that started with renowned individual in the United States (include geologists, a Presidential Advisor, and even one Vice

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I got interested in local politics during the recent General Elections, interested enough for me to spend hours of my free time to read up numerous blogs, search through the various Acts, comb through the Parliamentary reports, devour a book or two and attend a number of Open House Sessions at the Workers' Party headquarters at Syed Alwi Road.What brought me to the WP Open House Sessions was the

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Even more reason for us to eat less meat: T. Colin Campbell, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University, presented a summary of his book "The China Study : The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health" at http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail735.html

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... a video [SINGAPORE FORUM ON POLITICS 2006 THE (IN)SIGNIFICANCE OF POLITICAL ELECTOINS IN SINGAPORE] held on 25 February 2006 in NUS. (which is before the General Elections)I am still only 1 hour into the 4.5hrs, but so far the speakers includes:a lady from Institute of Policy Studies (I think need to find out more)James Gomez (well known in Singapore by now)a journalist that used to work on

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Someone told me in a forum that Singapore Ministers get pensions. I asked for the source to confirm this, but was told the information is public. Being curious, I took some time to research and was able to find the following sources which confirms that Singapore Ministers get pensions.I found the following reports under the Singapore Hansard. On 16 Jun 2004:Mr Steve Chia Kiah Hong asked the

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I was surfing the web to find out more about what CDCs are, and came upon the following pages:http://www.southeastcdc.org.sg/around_SE-meet_the_people_session.html#potongpasirhttp://www.northeast.org.sg/hougang/advisor.htmInteresting. The CDCs are government organisations, and the list of the other advisers on the first link are the MPs of the respective constituency. The odd thing is that the

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After some searching and careful reading, I was finally able to extract the following from the debate held on 3 March 2006 on the Budget 2006 debate for the Ministry of National Development, Mr Mah Bow Tan's reply to a query from Dr Amy Khor :The third point Dr Amy Khor raised was this issue about implicit subsidies. How do we price our flats? The most important criterion in pricing of new HDB

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There are 5 PAP Rallies, 3 SDA Rallies and 1 WP Rally on 4 May 2006.

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First, Mr Mah challenges Edmung Ng to build flats: Mah to SDA: Want to build flats for me? SINGAPORE: National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan has reacted strongly to statements by a Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) candidate that the Government is excessively marking up the prices of Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats.On Sunday night during the SDA rally in Yio Chu Kang, its candidate

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Interesting poem found on a local forum:First they came for James Gomez,and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a minority,then they came for Tan Wui-Hua,and I didn't speak up because I didn't live in Aljunied,then they came for Goh Meng Seng,and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Worker's Party member,then they came for Rahizan,and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Muslim,then they came for

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There is a lunch rally between 12noon to 3pm at Boat Quay and the rest of the rallies are from 7pm to 10pm.See this link for the bookmarks to the maps.Filed in: singapore ge2006 singaporeelections

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I took some time to bookmark the Rally locations in del.icio.us. See http://del.icio.us/dunpanic/ge2006+rally+20060502 for the list of rally locations for tonight. If time permits, I will update my del.icio.us bookmarks with the rally location everyday up to polls day, simply change the last parameter in the URL for the day you are interested in.Filed in: singapore ge2006 singaporeelections

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I thought it wierd that in the TV announcements this time round, there was no graphical example of what constitutes a valid vote and what constitutes an invalid vote. I wanted to be sure, since I am a first time vote. Being kiasu, I checked www.elections.gov.sg and also found only text explanation. As such, I wrote the following email to the Elections Department:In the "How To Vote?" section

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I woke up to a Straits Times that spent 2 full pages on the Gomez issue, and only half a page for Worker's Party and SDA's rally combined. Really, I think there is some truth to how our beloved ST deserves to be rank 140th.With the mainstream media not reporting everything, I turned to the Internet, and boy, was I surprised at the photo I see at yawningbread's account (scroll down to see the

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After the first rally I attended last night held by the opposition party, I decided that I should balance it up with attending one from the ruling party.My grandmother and aunts live in the Potong Pasir constituency. We had a family dinner and walked to the rally point as a group. When we reach the field, a first time candidate Josephine Teo was speaking. Honestly, whatever that was the

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When I arrived at Yishun St 11 at around 2045hrs, the traffic along the road was jammed up with vehicles trying to look for parking space near to the rally point. Looking out of my window when my car went past the field, I can see thousands of heads with their sights trained on the small figure in the brightly-lit stage in the distance, with the impassioned speech coming through the

dunPanichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15325955353521609594noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5345318.post-1146203812816958082006-04-27T22:22:00.000-07:002006-05-02T02:19:26.463-07:00

I happened to work from home today, and as I was about to get ready to leave my flat for lunch, there was a knock on the door. I opened the door and a helper from PAP handed me a copy of the PAP Manifesto. She also told me that a candidate from PAP, Dr Lam Pin Min, would be coming around shortly do his house visit.I have been waiting for someone to visit us at our home since the recent wave of

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Finally N91 is available in Singapore. It was launched over the weekend, but the newspaper advertisements only revealed the price during the last two days. The no-contract price of S$1099 (or was it S$1098? typing this from memory) is still quite affordable. However, since my T610 is still working pretty ok, and my two-year-old son would occasionally like to play with my phone (and sometimes

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I recently came to Mr Wang's blog through a link from a friend's blog. I like the way he presents arguments and his strong preference for equitable education opportunities in Singapore. One more RSS feed I add to my RSS reader, and I foresee that I will be reading all his articles.

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Some one with too much time on their hands poking fun at Singapore-Malaysia politics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cm2xkSVQqE.

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I took delivery of my second vehicle at the end of last month, and today I sent my new Latio to the Nissan workshop in Kampong Ubi for its first 1,000km servicing.The service center is located at the basement of the new Nissan building, with ample parking space for my to park my car properly before the servicing engineer come to inspect and collect my car for servicing. This is a stark

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Frustrations and feelings unique to Singapore males now told through the mouths of 3 teenage girls. A good 15 minutes of entertainment if you have the time to spare, and flash installed on your browser. Zo Peng (Linguistic warning: if you are not well-versed in Singlish, reading the subtitles might raise your understanding of the language in this mini-movie from 5% to around 50%. :P)

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Recently a local opposition politician was said to be only interested in raising issues pertaining to his own constituency in parliament, and his reply was for the accuser to check the Hansard records. A little research in the Internet reveals that the Hansard records for Singapore can be accessed at http://www.parliament.gov.sg/parlweb/hansard_search_latest.jsp.Interestingly, The O'Reilly Radar

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If you don't understand Chinese, the following will be Greek..errmm...Chinese to you. :P平胡- 4 台：8，16（以前是三台半）咬到- 以前只有公鸡咬蜈蚣以及猫咬老鼠。现在加：如有两只自己的花（花咬 - 例：坐在南风，摸两只2花），也算咬到。诈胡- 5 台- 16，32 （自摸诈胡32）呖咕呖咕 - 摸到七只花后,任何一家如果摸到第八只华,一定要掀牌,让得七只花者胡满台.如得七只花者自摸第八只花,算自摸满台.大三元 - 如碰出中,发,白,三只三元牌,无须继续玩,算满台.大四喜 - 如碰出东,南,西,北,四只风牌,无须继续玩,算满台.Rules recited by SY and blogged by CY.

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Came across a new plugin for easier blogging. Testing it out.Technorati Tags: firefox, plugin, blogging

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I upgraded to Firefox 1.5 a while ago. Lately Firefox has been nagging me to upgrade to 1.5.0.1 (what a minor upgrade). I ignore it for a few days, until the nagging got to me. According to the upgrade application, only the Javascript Debugger (which I rarely use) will be broken with the upgrade to 1.5.0.1. Seeing no harm in upgrading, I went ahead. So far the browser is still fine, keeping

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I was trying out the email-to-blog feature in blogger to post to this blog. It worked properly with another blog I have on blogger, so I don't see why the same settings would not work on this blog.I sent the email for the post from my iPAQ 2210 because I did not have access to a desktop for that day. The post did not appear, and I was not able to log on to blogger using my Pocket IE (not

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Although it is a little late (we are into the 2nd day), I would like to wish whoever is reading my blog a Happy Lunar New Year!

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Stumbled upon another video site: Fosfor Video. Interesting collection of funny videos, and the first one I watched is the Bloopers from the series Lost. Not really as funny as expected, but since I am a fan of Lost, I welcome the chance to see the actors and actresses to fill in the gap before Lost arrives in Singapore. There was some news about Apple finally deciding to open the iTunes

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In case you are not from Singapore, I need to provide a little context for the previous blog post. National Kidney Foundation is one of the largest, if not the largest charity organisation in Singapore (by the amount of donations collected per year). Recentl investigations show that there were many wrongdoings by the ex-CEO TT Durai and it is summarised in this report and detailed in NKF's

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I wrote to the Straits Time Forum today with the following letter. Regardless of whether they are going to publish it, I am publishing it here:In Chinese history, there was a man Qin Hui who was responsible for the execution of the national hero General Yue Fei. From the About.com article on Yue Fei, Qin Hui is someone "who wielded real power at court", and he managed to convince the then

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Michael Barnsdale picked up an idea in my blog and turned it into a game. He asked me to give it a name, so I thought of using this word "supercalifragilisticexpialidociousgooglegame" as the name.Filed in: fun

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Just for fun. I wonder what is the longest possible string (with no space) that will return valid search results from the common search engines like Google and Yahoo. One search term that turned up in the web traffic report for my other blog is "AbstractTransactionalSpringContextTests". A total of 39 characters, any one with suggestions of a longer search term?Filed in: fun

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MailNation Solutions Blog > 1TB Email!Unbelievable? Believe it. :)But I think I will still stick to GMail. I don't need that much space for email. (Maybe Adam Curry will need it, he is the first person I hear of maxing out his GMail box.)Filed in: coolstuff

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Once in a while I would come across something that is so addictive that it blows me away. TiddlyWiki is a self-contained HTML file that has the many functionalities of a Wiki, and there are a number of extensions and plugins that make it interesting.I have not started playing with it, but the process of understanding it is already interesting enough. More details in days to come. :)Filed in:

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Following yesterday's post on editing comments in Blogger, I took some time to write a greasemonkey script for adding a link to edit comments.Filed in: blogger hack greasemonkey

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Ok, once I am a little more active about posting to this blog, I get spam comments. I did not want to block anonymous posting because I have previous feedback from friends saying that they want to post comments but don't want to log on to Blogger. So do I have to put up with spam comments?? No, but all I could do previously was to (rudely) delete the whole comment post, leaving some others

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del.icio.us is a popular and good site for tagging, and many people have devised many different ways to use it. The categorisation method I have recently started using in this blog is also based on the tagging ability of del.icio.us, a blogger hack I learnt from FreshBlog.As I stumbled on Typo just now, I suddenly discovered another use of del.icio.us : when you come across a new site and don't

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My mobile contract expired this week, and I started to look around for new phone models I can buy (hopefully), and I came across the Nokia N91, which is really a phone that has EVERYTHING I ever wanted (so far) in a phone. Too bad Nokia also just announced recently that this model is going to be delayed to early 2006. The price is going to be too steep for my liking to, judging from the

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Just installed the GreaseMonkey extension today and browsed userscripts.org to look for scripts to play with. Came across this script that allows me to add tags to my blog, pointing to del.ico.us and technorati, effectively creating categories in Blogger. Let's test it out. :)Filed in: tagging del.icio.us technorati greasemonkey

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Ok, I try to keep my mind opened and go listen to a presentation again. Still I walked out of the presentation thinking these guys are only a bunch of motivation speakers wannabe reusing the same descriptions over and over again. "So-and-so is a great guy to help you build your passive income business because he has good work-ethics", "so-and-so is such an amazing couple", "do you want to

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Then again, blogexplosion give me an exposure to site that I would not otherwise have known/gone to. Quite a lot of things to learn from other blocks, like this tool I saw off one blog. NeoCOUNTER by NeoWORX - The only web counter that displays your online visitors by country

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Just joined blogexplosion. Initial impression is that it is a site that use mechanisms to make people click on other people's site. Not too much of a use. I will click on the surf button, go do something else, and come back half a minute later to click on the "GO" button. Actually quite waste of time because the traffic coming to your site is not really reading, just surfing.

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Another example of people being too free. Crying, while eating

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Some people are really too free and have a lot of time on their hands. OfficeGuns - Guns - Double Maul

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another way to blog - from my ipaq

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Someone was telling me foreigners cannot understand Singaporean speaking English (even when the accent is not beng-ish or PCK-like), because we pepper our sentences with too many acronyms. Guess Dilbert would feel comfortable when he comes to Singapore.

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Bought fried chicken wing rice from Rivervale Mall's food court today. The stall owner re-fried the chicken wing before bringing it to be packaged in the styrofoam box. When I returned home and opened the box, I realised that the heat from the chicken wing melted a part of the box. You can see from the image above that the mark is obviously from the chicken wing. Did not dare to eat this part of

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More photos of the fried chicken wing rice. See the hole that was burnt through on the right hand side? Too bad I chomped on the part of the chicken on that side of the box before I saw the hole. Now some chemicals must be working in my body to give me some sort of cancer in years to come. 

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We rarely own stationery nowadays, since the PC/notebook has already taken over most of our needs for writing. Today I was looking for a ruler, and realised that it is an item that has disappeared from my desk for a very long time.As always, the Internet is here to the rescue, and Google is the hero of the day again. A search for "print ruler" led me to a page with printed rulers. Great!

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If you are reading this entry, read it from the bottom up, it makes more sense that waypic posted using

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Guess IM blogging is not for me.pic posted using

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Worst still, with the reverse chronological order of blogs, the readers will read the later emotions before reading the earlier emotions, for all the entries in the same daypic posted using

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Maybe this is why some personal blogs degenerate into mindless complaints and bore most audiences ... entries and not thought through before being penned.....Everything that readers read are simply emotions that flow into the IM boxpic posted using

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With IM blogging, blog entries tend to get shorter, since every piece of thought that crosses the mind can get blogged within the seconds of writing the IM message.pic posted using

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Ok. Short pic posted using

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Testing blogging from hellopic posted using

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MacDonald's used to offer free wireless access at all outlets across the island (or so I was told). I only realised this some time in May, although the marketing materials metnion that the free offer is a time-limited trial ending on 31 Apr. I was gladly surprised when I attempted to connect to the wireless networks at Mac's Siglap and Mac's Jurong East both in the same day (sometime in May), I

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Although I have been driving my own car for the last 3+ years, I have always been clueless about what I need to do to maintain my car to make sure that it can continue to operate properly. I always thought that if I just simply go for servicing religiously at the pre-determined intervals I would be free of any problems with the car.However, the truth is that, as will all machines, after some

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If you are Singaporean, you would be interested in this. http://www.petitiononline.com/nkfs/petition.html

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I am a big TV addict, and last night's Amazing Race 7 finale had both my wife and I have our eyes glued to the TV set. It was really amazing how Uchenna and Joyce manage to catch up all the way from behind. I thought that when Rob and Amber managed to board the earlier flight, and ground crew told Uchenna and Joyce that the flight is closed, it was the end of the race. It really took a

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Has almost abandoned this site again. Someone was telling me blogging is a lifestyle, and I really have to agree to it. When I was much younger, writing a diary was almost always one point in my annual exercise to establish new year resolutions. And almost every year the diary-writing efforts would whither away within months, if not weeks of starting out. Along came the Internet and blogging

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My good friend Wilfrid Wong has recently set up his blog site. Includes writings he has done over the years. Interesting person with interesting thoughts.

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Deliberately Concealed Garments Project | Clothing found hidden in buildings Was browsing the web, and looking at a particular web hosting company for its hosting offerings. Wanted to see some examples of the sites it has hosted, so I clicked on the link for "Featured Site of the Day", and I got directed to the site above. Why in the world would anyone be interested in garments hidden in

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I am dealing with a Taiwanese client currently, and was cracking my brain to think of what "Content Management System" is called in Chinese. Tried BabelFish and the result I got was "美滿的管理系統". Ok, I know I hope my clients will be contented with the CMS that I will be providing them, but the I tried "web content management system" and got "網路內容管理系統". This should be what I want, since "content"

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After some two weeks of thinking, switching decisions between striking out on my own and returning to another salaried job, I have finally decided to start my own business. Don't have a well articulate business plan yet. Don't even have a good idea what would be my primary focus. For now, I am mostly taking in sub-contracts from others to build up my cash reserves. Sustainability comes first.

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Headache in the morning.... Drowsy during driving... A loud thud, not as loud as thunder... A first time, kissed into taxi's bumper... $100 poorer, but my head became clearer... No more AXN watching until 2 am

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Saw this poll in JobsDB.com's site: "I'm now in my 40s and I'm willing to forego high pay for a more fulfilling and meaningful job / life".   Interestingly I am now in my 30s and I am already foregoing a senior post in a SME in Singapore for something less, because I want to be able to spend more time with my son.  In fact, a few of my peers are feeling the same way as me.  Is this a sign of

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Now that we have a baby at home, we barely have time to sleep, let alone the opportunity to go for movies at the theater. Fortunately some enterprising Singaporeans started DVD home delivery services: Hollywoodclicks and MovieMaster.

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Photoshop wars - http://www.jadeit.com.au/jcsworld/war3.html. The result you get when someone with good photoshop skills have a lot of time on his hands.

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Has been waiting for fresh gmail invites in my gmail account for days. Not sure what is the algorithm for google to provide the gmail invites, but somehow I only managed to get one invite so far. Reading others' blogs tell me that some people get as many as 5 or 10 invites a day! Again, confused. Is it really the case that the gmail invites are handed out at random?

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[Specific to Singapore] Received a mailer from HSBC informing me that now I can pay my income tax using the credit card I have with the bank. "Cool!" was my first impression, since this will mean earning the rewards points for something I will be spending on in the first place. However, upon reading the brochure in more detail, I realised the procedure is as such: make a GIRO arrangement with

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Nice photo of the baby after he has successfully turned from his back to his belly.pic posted using

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The previous photo was taken using a Sony Ericsson T610. This one is taken using the new Nokia 7610.pic posted using

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At a certain time of the day, with a certain amount of sunlight, the toilet bowl in my office looks like it glows from within. Just an interesting sight that I thought I wanted to share.Posted by Hello

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page An interesting way to produce an encyclopedia. Using the opensource methodology, it is possible to author quite a lot of things out there. I found this page when I tried "open source government" in Google, and discovered a new concept where government policies are drawn up very much the same way source code is written in the open source environment.

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Recently I have been uploading my baby's photos to blogpost via hello.com's IM client. However, one problem I encountered was that when I attempted to delete a wrongly uploaded image, there was no way for me to do it.

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I was using my Yahoo Mail Plus! account (the one where I pay $19.99/year for bigger space and was informed that they will be upgrading my mailbox to 2GB at no extra costs. This sounds like good news to me. However, as I continued to surf the site, it seems like the engineers are still working on the roll-out, on the production servers! Sometimes I will see a plain interface, sometimes I see

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I am in the midst of cleaning up what I call my "online identity". Basically this means cleaning up the pointers that point to pages either created by me or about me. Along the way, I remembered there was a domain forwarding service I subscribed to and I have a domain name like this: dunpanic.rulestheweb.com. Egoistic, but it is something that I can remember really well even after years. So I

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It had always been my dream to be able to blog from a mobile device. In my opinion the best use case of blogging is to allow one to write down snippets of thoughts anywhere, anytime. Now that my latest gadget acquisition has bluetooth built-in, plus the fact that I already own an Ericsson T610 phone with a SingTel GPRS connection, this is no longer just a dream. Of course the second way is to

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Finally I succumb to the temptation of buying the Jabra FreeSpeak bluetooth handsfree set. A trip to Funan during lunch today, and I am now trying it out in my office. It took about 2 hours for a full-charge, and setting up was a breeze on my Ericsson T610. The manual guides me through the process of setting the set ready for bluetooth pairing, and I had to go through a few steps on the T610

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Did not know that there is this thing about Weblog Awards

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My neighbour asked me to help install a copy of The Sims Deluxe Edition, Hot Dates Expansion Pack and Vacations Expansion Pack. Spent about two and half hours in front of the Windows 98 computer, I managed to install all three successfully. Too bad the documentation did not mention the correct order to install the various version. There is a list of recommended order of installation for

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MayDay's Singapore concert is tonight! If you don't know what/who MayDay is, go to www.gogorock.com to find out!

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Ever wonder what is that program that is running in your windows task list? I was looking for carpserv.exe in google, and came across this site which explains the common executables found in the windows task list. Helps if you want to optimise your windows system. Task List Programs

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Most of the time spent in a development project is not in the actual coding, but in the time to communicate and make clients understand what you are trying to do. Sometimes the clients are really so clueless that educationing them is a full time job!

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Someone wrote a lucene search implement for BroadVision, and also took the time to do up this image.

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Using RSS in JSP pages describes the usage of Informa, a new open-source Java API for parsing RSS files.

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I am terribly excited at the rate of development of the RSS/weblog related technologies out there in the web. However, one of the things that I had problem with is how to categorise and collectively call this set of technologies. (To call it 'RSS/weblog related set of technologies' is a mouth full and does not give the technology justice. Through some readings, I came across the term Semantic

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