Archive for 2009
This is why I miss Top Gear! [ READ MORE ]
I just read an article on Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, talking about his early days of computing. Turns out that he and I both started computing at a similar time – circa 1990. At the time, he was a starving Finnish university student in computing scienc and I was a easily excitable [ READ MORE ]
I sometimes find it interesting to read Malaysia Today because RPK has all kinds of juicy things to share with the rest of us. Most of us would still have wool pulled over our eyes if it wasn’t for the many exposés he has done (most of us still do). So, I came across this [ READ MORE ]
I just watched Avatar with my sis’s family tonite. It frakkin’ blew my mind! Friends of mine know that I usually spend half my time dissecting a movie into its component parts to see how it was made and also to catch flaws in either the story-line or the acting. However, I spent most of [ READ MORE ]
I have spent many years complaining about the lack of new games in this world since the 90s. Every possible game genre seems to have been developed then and there have been nothing but rehashes over the years. However, I can now see the beginnings of a new form of game – the open world [ READ MORE ]
I was just thinking about it this morning. I was wondering if we could solve our streamyx sucks problem through a purely private sector initiative. Instead of being forced to lease bandwidth from Telekom, might it be possible for the private sector to lay their own pipes to the Internet and then provide broadband services [ READ MORE ]
I have always had this problem with my looks. Everyone says that I look too young for my age – essentially I look a little too boyish. When I first went to Cambridge for my PhD, most people thought that I was a fresh undergraduate instead of a post-grad student. This has always been a problem [ READ MORE ]
A colleague of mine asked me the other day about my career plans – on whether I had any concrete ideas about what I want to do. I have to say that it depends on what was meant by concrete because I definitely have an idea of what I want to do, but not any [ READ MORE ]
Well, I just had my first ever PS3 party today and I think that it was fun and I discovered why Little Big Planet is such an enjoyable game – especially in multi-player party mode. The game was actually designed to be played as multi-player – there are some areas of the map that can [ READ MORE ]
I couldn’t concentrate on work today. So, I decided to do a little reading. Something in a forum that I subscribed to triggered me to look at The Cathedral and The Bazaar by ESR. Although slightly dated, I still liked what he had to say, especially since he had real life examples to quote. I [ READ MORE ]