I’ve been busy, and therefore silent. I have one Women’s Business Connection article to rewrite (procrastinating) on a specialist trade I know nothing about, a church website to restructure, and a medical association anthem to produce (check) and record to CD (help!!). All at no charge, since family members and the Holy Father are involved. …
Month: September 2003
I received an email today from Microsoft. At least, it looked like a Microsoft email, telling me to install a cumulative security patch for the month of September. But something looked dodgy. If it was from Microsoft, why was the sender’s email address julzsiqpkxb-zrtwmnhn@updates.com? Why would Microsoft send an exe file, when we usually download …
My list of regular reads, bookmarked in Newsmonster, disappeared mysteriously today. I didn’t install any new software before that, so I am still wondering why it happened. I re-installed Newsmonster and rebooted my computer, but it didn’t help. Strangely, folders containing data on my list of newsfeeds still reside in my hard drive. I tried …
Here’s a recent BBC interview with Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium and inventor of the Internet (no, it wasn’t Al Gore). In fact, the interview gives us a glimpse into the W3C’s noble objectives – developing technologies like standards to achieve a common platform that will create a forum for information, …
Today it rained and rained and rained. From morning to early evening, it was pouring buckets. Wielding my trusty umbrella, I got out of the car and stepped gingerly around huge puddles in the uneven pavement. I made a quick dash across a road on the way to the office. When I reached the other …
I met a friend for lunch and then paid a visit to Carrefour, which is usually so crowded on weekends that I avoid shopping there. Dutiful daughter that I am, I proceeded to look for two items on my household shopping list: Oven cleaner Portobello mushrooms In the spirit of Kristen’s recent post, I ended …
Remember that recent NY Times article on Singapore food? Well, one of our all-time favourite restaurants was featured in it, and we decided to rekindle our passion for crab bee hoon (vermicelli), kong kong (another kind of shellfish, like escargot except it’s white and chewy), scallops and kai lan (a green leafy vegetable). All with …
I fell asleep halfway into the Middlesborough v Everton match, but caught the goal that wasn’t (how unfair to the home team). I awoke at midnight, with the Man U v Arsenal match near completion. Kicking myself, I witnessed van Nistelrooy scuff the last penalty kick – one of a few such opportunities he wasted, …
This Wired article sent off alarm bells ringing in my head. By 2005, 65% of automated teller machines in the United States will be powered by a pared-down version of Windows, in place of IBM’s OS/2 Warp. Hopefully, what will be cut down are security flaws and other bugs. Security experts’ opinions are divided on …
Macromedia’s senior product manager, Lucian Beebe, demonstrates how easy it is to motion tween an object in Flash MX 2004 Professional. There were lots of other cool features too. Pity there wasn’t much time to see them all. Benjy Choo of Kinetic Interactive – arguably Singapore’s best web design company, specialising in Flash. We got …