Today I finally laid my hands on the ONLY Triton Extreme in Singapore (as yet). Touch-wise, it felt like any typical unweighted keyboard. Sound-wise, it was very, very commendable. Umpteen electric piano variations, jazz brush kit, zillions of funky basses, brass, synths… Didn’t have time to run through everything but it generally feels ‘mature’ and …
Month: March 2004
Now here’s a novel piece of news: AOL seizes spammer’s Porsche. According to them, this dude made over a million friggin’ US dollars spamming people. Don’t just take his Porsche! Take his mansion too!
My church group and I are finally watching The Passion this Thursday. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so enthusiastic watching a show full of gore and violence. It isn’t for the faint-hearted; already two people have died (a woman and a minister) of a heart attack from watching it. Interestingly, watching The Passion has …
Yours truly was feeling a little under the weather this week, hence the lack of blogging for a record 6 days. VanPod is doing fine. The Belkin voice recorder works marvellously well. I made a recording in church last Sunday. I could hear the voice of the guest speaker clearly from the back row. A …
After spending a few days playing with my new 40GB iPod and ripping loads of CDs, I realised – or remembered – to my chagrin that my own PC’s hard drive is only 30GB. Go ahead. Laugh.
Public service announcement: I bought an iPod. Actually, make that two. There was an offer at the IT Fair at Suntec City where you could purchase a 40GB iPod for the normal price, and an additional 15GB iPod would be yours for just S$200 more. So I decided to give my little sister a present …
I finally watched a (nearly) full episode of American Idol tonight. The wild cards who were given a second chance weren’t all that bad, though some were obviously better than others. A quick run-through of how I think each of the eight fared: Jon Peter Lewis. Before I heard him sing, I thought, wow, he …
In a previous post I mentioned how the EOLAS patent could very well disrupt the way browsers work. Now I am glad to report that the US Patent Office has invalidated this patent, meaning that life can go on as normal, and Microsoft (among other brower makers) doesn’t have to pay US$521 million in damages. …
I’ve been out of the web design business for four months, and haven’t received job offers from strangers ever since this blog was featured in the Computer Times a few years ago. So I was a little surprised that someone emailed me today, saying he liked my designs on online T-shirt gallery-shop, Threadless.com, and asking …
Another report of my unusually exciting weekend. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra was excellent, as expected. I went to the concert with 3 church friends (two of them were the couple I mentioned in a previous post). Standing ovations and two encores, what can I say. The programme confirmed some initial suspicions based on years of …