Behold, the world’s first 400GB hard disk (from Hitachi). NetNewsWire looks like a nifty feed reader designed for OSX. Google can now search flash files. Link from Kottke via Waxy.org. iTunes sells 70 million songs in first year.
Month: April 2004
I supposed now is as good as any other time to announce that I am on the lookout for new employment opportunities. Yours truly has to decide whether to go back to web design (seeing how it may not be economically feasible to start a web standards consultancy here in Singapore), embark on full-scale music …
I signed up for Movable Type 3.0 beta testing. Haven’t heard from the Trotts since, but I hope to get involved in subsequent stages. I’ll post a list of MT3.0 beta weblogs here. Feel free to contribute more links that you’ve come across. Jay Allen’s MT3.0 beta blog Adam Gessaman’s MT3.0 beta blog Here’s a …
Israeli ‘traitor’ released from jail. Based on the doctrine of pre-emption, which the Bush administration used to justify the invasion of Iraq, should the US now do likewise to Israel for the suspected possession of weapons of mass destruction? Or will the doctrine of pre-emption be non-retroactive, since the secrets were leaked in 1986? 🙂
Today, I learnt that my piano teacher was going to hold a jazz clinic for his students. He was going to team his students up with professional musicians so we could experience playing in a band. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I was one of his strongest students and that he had selected …
If you have quality and ability it doesn’t matter – unless you have desire and commitment and go out and express yourself, you won’t get anywhere. – Arsenal striker Thierry Henry, after scoring 4 goals against Leeds.
I must declare that I finally filed my Income Tax (online, of course). And I definitely hit the last submit button. To be safe, I printed out my pre-submit page as well as the final page. I have filed my documents and kept them in a cool, dry place. Soon after this momentous occasion, I …
An article on Kinja, Nick Denton’s new weblog aggregating service, has taken up page 38 of The Straits Times today (well, actually it was taken from the New York Times; subscription required). I signed up for the service after reading Kottke’s post. You can find the link under my Menu. Some of my favourite blogs …
We’re experiencing a couple of problems with iPod and iTunes synchronisation here. Advice and provision of any links to tutorials, troubleshooting and FAQ pages would be greatly appreciated. It seems that my sister’s new 15GB iPod is unable to sync with my PC. My PC only recognises VanPod, my own 40GB iPod. We’ve already registered …
1413.5 songs later, my hard drive ran out of space while iTunes was ripping Groove Armada’s Back To Mine compilation. I had zero (0) kb left in my drive. I couldn’t even create a new folder! Obviously, something had to go. So I archived my old photos and documents, packed them onto CD-ROMs, and bid …