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I like but damn, they replaced the black dude! [ READ MORE ]
I recently stumbled upon a new book-store near my place. It is called Gramedia Bookstores and they are already in my good books. I can rarely find my regular authors in our normal book-stores such as MPH, Times and Popular. Typically, I would have to get my fix of books from Kino and there is [ READ MORE ]
Mesmerising – “Human beings with super-human strength and abilities” – indeed. [ READ MORE ]
Just so you know, I decided to divorce my technology posts from this blog and move them onto another blog. I will keep this blog to personal postings on whatever random stuff amuses me from time to time. You may still find some technology posts on this blog from time to time but they will [ READ MORE ]
As the letter says, I have been recently appointed as a judge for our local LEGO robot competition league! It is something like the Integrated Design Project that we had at Cambridge, where students worked together to build a robot to accomplish a certain task within a certain time frame. However, these are students between [ READ MORE ]
I had dinner with a bunch of Cambridge friends this evening – three of whom were economists and one a biologist. This is the second time that we were meeting up in a week. Some time during dinner, a thought occurred to me – I am mixing with an odd bunch. Odd because I don’t [ READ MORE ]
I called up HP today to find out why my Streamyx connection has not yet been upgraded and was told by them that I had to call up Streamyx myself to upgrade my line. What kind of nonsense is this? When I registered and was explained the entire process, I was told that HP would [ READ MORE ]
Over the weekend, I began to move my home cloud system over from OpenVZ to XenServer. I thought that I should chronicle a few lessons learned here. Some of this information is just not available on the Internet and some of it are my personal opinions about the pros and cons of the two different [ READ MORE ]
My new HP desktop arrived today with a brand new 23″ monitor that is full-HD capable. Unfortunately, it took me a while to set up the monitor for use with my OS because of some issues with the drivers. So, I shall document some of my endeavours here. Firstly, the new fglrx driver no longer [ READ MORE ]
Happy Holidays! Have a safe journey and enjoy your time with your loved ones! [ READ MORE ]