I just learnt that my personal tutor in law school, Prof John Parkinson, passed away on 19 February 2004 of a brief illness. I remember the first time I met him back in 1997. I knocked on his door at the appointed meeting time. I was standing in a hallway lined with with many other …
Month: February 2004
We’ll be looking around for an MP3 player this weekend so if you know of anything good, please post a suggestion. I haven’t had time to do much research, and most of the people I know don’t use any. The storage capacity for our intended gift, doesn’t have to be in the 30-40 GB range, …
Some of you may have started receiving emails about how a certain young man was horribly maimed in a robbery, found God, had plastic surgery and became a world famous actor who has now produced ‘The Passion of the Christ’. However, before you forward it on, it is only an urban legend. Mel Gibson did …
A great way to use CSS for different devices. Microsoft may be slapped with US$100 million fine, forced to split up software. Yahoo versus Google – a comparison on ‘word density’. Time to check out Yahoo’s new search algorithms.
I was surfing around at the Digital Homes magazine website, and chanced upon an interesting service, Zinio. For a subscription fee, it lets you download digital copies of magazines, page for page, onto your hard drive. It may be ideal for people who love reading magazines but don’t want to clutter up the place / …
So many things have happened in the past few days, yet I hadn’t the time to recount them on my blog until now. On Saturday, I learnt to my delight that I am getting the Korg Triton Extreme as a birthday present (three months to go). That’s absolutely brilliant, or might I say in Ali …
If the Runaway Jury was a gripping book, I’d say the Runaway Jury was a gripping movie. I never read the former, but I just enjoyed watching the latter. Dustin Hoffman was, of course, impeccable as the prosecutor. He’s one of the few actors who can fit into a role so easily, you’d think he …
When I started my first job in Project Eyeball, I probably took for granted the fact that almost everyone there spoke and wrote great English. A programmer colleague said this was the most well-spoken lot he’d ever worked with, but having come fresh from a law school in England and an English-speaking home, I didn’t …
Another Nokia 6600 pic for my readers. The Touche bottles were backlit, giving a lovely glowing effect.
I was browsing through our government’s Bird Flu website and this bit of FAQ made me laugh: Q. How do humans get infected? It is rare for bird flu to infect humans. In the few cases where humans are infected, the virus is transmitted through close contact with infected chickens. You can only catch the …