Registered readers of the Straits Times Interactive, the online version of Singapore’s quality daily, would have heard that we will soon be charged for web access. I am curious to see how this little experiment will work out. As a trainee (in SPH itself, of all ironies) I was told by an American news guru …
Month: February 2005
I updated my third-generation iPod firmware and the iPod couldn’t work anymore. It displayed the folder icon with the exclamation mark. A few seconds later, it would turn off. No amount of rebooting worked, this time. After hunting down some forum threads, I found Apple’s documentation on this problem. For my case I think the …
My legal friend K sent this link over from the Police Force website, and I think it’s useful for all Singaporean drivers to know. (I’m not sure if ‘handphone’ is an exclusively Singaporean term. To the Yanks, we’re talking about cellphones. To the Brits, we’re referring to mobiles). There seems to be pretty strict liability …
… to file my taxes. This year, Singaporeans log on to mytax.iras.gov.sg. Curiously, I am told that my browser is not Java-enabled. Checking Firefox’s preferences, I do have Java enabled. Viewing the FAQ section on how to fix this problem, there is only help for Mac users of Netscape 7.01 and Safari 1.2.3. I’m in …
I got confirmed today – this time in Church, by our Anglican bishop. Fortunately he didn’t ask us any trick questions! I feel confirmation is more a man-made tradition, so I was less excited about it than my baptism. Nonetheless, I learnt more about the church’s history and practices in catechism class. Anyway I won’t …
Sweetback (the band Sade without the singer Sade) has revamped their splash page – at least, since the last time I visited it. If you tune in now you can hear the voice of Singapore-born singer, Aya, albeit in compressed low-quality audio format. I have been unable find Sweetback’s new album, Stage 2, in my …
Loosely following the practices of Kottke.org, I shall follow up on previous blog posts with updates and amendments. I take back everything I said about how cool the Belkin Cassette Adapter is. Of course, most of these CNet reviews came in a while after I had purchased them. But they confirmed my suspicions that, perhaps, …
We’re back. It was an amazing trip. We did the usual shopping rounds, went to a winery, the chocolate factory (just a nibble), the ice cream factory (just a lick), and got attacked by a mob of hungry swans, seagulls and ducks which we were trying to feed at a rather large pond. Nothing else …
I’ll be in Perth the whole week, so Gong Xi Fa Cai in advance to my Chinese readers!
I went to HMV’s sale and picked up the following: Blue Lines by Massive Attack Protection by Massive Attack Odelay by Beck Acoustic Soul by India Arie Liquid Skin by Gomez Talkie Walkie by Air (Bah. Premieres Symptomes is now going at the same price and I paid Import rates for it) Best Kept Secrets …