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Disoriented musings of a technology romantic. Copious amounts of salt recommended with each reading.

Learning Chess

/>My nephew celebrated his seventh birthday a few days ago. For his birthday gift I decided to buy him a chess set. I felt that it was a good time to learn how to play. On my part, this is a fairly long term commitment because I was the only one in my family who plays chess. So, it would be up to me to teach him ...

Dumb Doctors

Some of the dumbest people I know in this world are medical doctors. Regardless of what many people may think, it's been my personal experience with doctors, that they have a highly misguided sense of superiority, which probably comes from the God complex that one develops after holding the lives of others in their hands everyday. I have come to this conclusion after peddling my wares, door to door, ...

Dear Singapore

I went down to Singapore last week for a number of reasons, one of which, was to visit the place again, as an adult. I used to visit it when I was a kid, as my dad's family hails from Johor Bahru. So, I packed my bags, took out some cash and just went down. My first problem came as I did not know how to get down to ...

Microstores n’est pas?

"The reason we put User Account Control into the platform was to annoy users. I'm serious." -- David Cross, Microsoft (Apr 10, 2008). When your product managers talk like that, you know that it is the beginning of the end. Everyone knows the the bald Steve only knows how to copy the reality distorting Steve when it comes to designing products. But now, there are rumours that Fudzilla is ...

Idiot Banking

I've just read a recent article which says that from now onwards, online banking customers may be held responsible for losses if they have out of date anti-virus or anti-phishing protection. From the banking code, which you can download online, the provisions in section 12.11 clearly state that: If you act without reasonable care, and this causes losses, you may be responsible for them. (This may apply, for example, ...

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