Greetings from Los Angeles. A few good things worthy of mention during my journey here: Friendly airport staff (SG). I was greeted by the friendliest female security guard (who was incidentally of Amazonian proportions) and another ever-smiling official who inspected my check-in baggage. The new Singapore Airlines carriers. I flew straight from Singapore to LA …
Month: May 2004
For ease of reference, I’m putting up some resource links on California / LA / Vegas as I find them. Lonely Planet – Los Angeles Lonely Planet – Las Vegas Currency exchange rates (US$ to S$) If you have any other good links please post them here. Thanks! Note to those who subscribe to mailing …
OK people. I am going to be extremely busy tonight and tomorrow, so I may not be able to reply to emails or text messages. Thanks for your well wishes – I’ll catch up with some of you in June when I get back from the States. Until you hear from me (in Los Angeles, …
The Arsenal men’s team broke the unbeaten record – but let’s not forget about the achievements of the ladies team this year, too!
The weather is hotttt in sunny California. I have been warned of temperatures that even Singaporeans would melt under. While having lunch today I thought of some new items for my packing list, which was residing as a Word document on my PC. I keyed the new entries into my Nokia phone. When I got …
Good news: Movable Type 3.0 is out. Bad news: if you run more than three blogs with one account, or have more than one author per blog, you have to pay for the upgrade to continue what you’re doing. View the new price list. As others have already noted, upgrading to MT3.0 could ironically limit …
Looking at reports on Sonia Gandhi’s victory, a few thoughts came to mind: India is the world’s largest democracy, with 675 million voters – twice the population of the USA. Yet it managed a 56% turnout. Needless to say, democracy in India is a huge, messy process. Votes from four seats are being recounted, but …
Yo people, wassup man! Is it just me, or is the Singapore Idol online application page, just not lookin’ groovy tonight? It’s like, broken! After checking the little box and hitting ‘Continue’, it kept on taking me to an error page. And it ain’t a browser problem dude, it was bad for both IE and …
I just discovered that Yahoo allows users to import their favourite RSS feeds (beta), which will be displayed on their personalised homepage alongside the usual news headlines. Cool. In other news, Reuters have just announced they are publishing their headlines into RSS format as well. View the full list here. Not just that – they …
After using Mozilla’s mail program, Thunderbird, for half a year, I have been pretty much satisfied with its functionality. Apart from one thing, which may not really be Mozilla’s fault. You see, I’m the sort of person who likes to sync up my phone with my mail program. That way, I get to update my …