My computer’s been offline for over a week but today I finally had time to sit down and reinstall the home server, so everything’s back to normal. I also installed the { Opera browser }, the third player in the browser market that’s often been sidelined by the battle between Microsoft … and what’s left…
I feel obliged to post something on the anniversary of the attacks, but don’t know what to write. I’m sorry it had to happen at all, but what’s done has been done. More importantly, instead of indulging in hero-worship or finger pointing, the parties affected should try to understand the problem at its source, and…
My home network is down, so I won’t be too responsive with the emails and such. Which may be just as well, because I should be revising for my GRE and not surfing the web. Cheers.
Well folks, I’ve registered for my first GRE test which will take place two weeks from now. I’m prepared to re-sit if I feel my scores aren’t good enough to get me into the grad school of my choice. Anyway, scores are valid for five years, so it’s worth getting a good one. So far…
I’m staying up to catch the last set of the Venus Williams and Chandra Rubin match. My support’s behind Chandra (who’s fully a head shorter than Venus). Considering that she’s had to recover from a number of physical problems, she’s doing pretty well, making up for her (relative) lack of brute strength, with guile. She…
Today could have been called ‘Bad Driving Day’. It started when my mother was trying to exit a very crowded Ngee Ann City this afternoon. Just as she reached the exit to the main road, we found that a shiny red open-top Lotus (complete with lofty-looking yuppie chick with short hair and sunglasses) was sitting…
Two nice things happened to me this Friday. First, in the morning I finally met a nice client. A very polite German lady, who made reasonable requests and actually understood the nature of the internet as a medium. Next, the Singapore NIC (registrar for .sg domain names) replied to my query, confirming that .sg sites…
Due to increasing commitments at work and outside of work, I now get by with 4-5 hours of sleep per day. Every night I practice for the GRE, work on my church’s new website, research for my own further education, and maintain this website. By the time I’m done for the night, it is usually…
This morning’s melodrama was a prime example of Murphy’s Law. I woke up this morning by myself, wondering when my alarm clock (actually, the alarm feature in my Nokia 6510) was going to ring. It didn’t. Because the damn phone had hung again. I restarted the phone, and checked the time: 8.20 am. Not good….
This evening my parents and I decided to try out Jade restaurant at Fullerton Hotel. We bumped into the son of famous forensics expert, the late Dr Chao Tze Cheng, who was waiting for his guests to arrive at the same restaurant. The next thing we knew, he convinced us to join his table, and…