The PC Fair was just like any other – hordes of eager Singaporean shoppers, with pamphlets generously strewn all over the floor and trampled upon. I finally got my hands on an Olympus C5050 and decided that it felt all right. But I didn’t like the fact that I could get it for S$1299 elsewhere. …
Month: June 2003
So many people have been directed from search engines, to a previous post of mine on tab orders in Flash, that I have been prompted to write a tutorial. On this page you will find notes from Macromedia (extra reading), a quick-fix solution in .fla format (no explanations given), and the proper tutorial, which you …
The highlight of the day was dinner with Mark and Kristen at Keppel Marina. Kristen, however, was resting at home with a virus, so we all decided to follow Mark home after dinner to visit her. It was rather exciting, what with a trail of four cars behind him on the expressway, all of us …
I was watching the last two sets of the Serena Williams v Justine Henin-Hardenne match. Now, while Justine is one of my most favourite players, I didn’t expect the crowd at Roland Garros to cheer (or jeer?) madly whenever her opponent made an error. Especially towards the end of the match. For crying out loud, …
The Poynter Institute reports that Dave Winer is in negotiations with the New York Times to open their archives to people linking from weblogs. Now this may be good news for some of us, but I forsee that this permission may be exploited. It’s asserted elsewhere however that this benefit will apply only to Userland …
Yesterday at the gym, while in the middle of my final stretching exercise, I was almost overcome with pain. My contorted body was screaming at me to stop, but my instructor was mercilessly holding my limbs down. Suddenly, he shot me a question. “What is ASP? and .NET?” My pain subsided a little, as I …
Network Solutions can be a real pain in the neck when it comes to domain registry transfer requests. Transfers away from them, that is (surprise, surprise). Firstly, by today’s standards they are expensive. Their annual registration rates have remained unchanged since the Stone Age, where they enjoyed monopoly rights. Which is why I see no …
In my previous post, some of you reported difficulties viewing this website on IE6. The problem is best explained as a simple, two-step process. In my latest stylesheet, I specified a 1 pixel dotted border to go on the right side of my blog. In well-behaved browsers such as Netscape 6 and 7, Mozilla and …
Petition against Bush and Blair getting nominated for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. Marvel with me on how one of my web design heroes, Joshua Davis, ended up designing a web special for the same VW model as I: the Phaeton. He designed the US site while I designed the Asia-Pacific site. Naturally, his Flash …
Today, most of our church service was conducted by children, which was very refreshing. The sermon, of course, was still given by our vicar. Babies look so adorable in baptism dresses. While looking to purchase large quantities of packing material for our forthcoming house-moving session, I came across this local company that specialises in exactly …