The BBC reports that a rap artiste has translated the works of 14th century writer Geoffrey Chaucer into hip-hop. I haven’t heard it yet, but I can imagine it sounds something like this: Yo yo this is gangsta author Mr Jeff C Wanta tell you about all my homies Da Miller, Da Wife and the …
Month: July 2005
I updated my reading list twice this month, and realised I didn’t tell anyone about it. Anyway, these are the books that have been keeping me awake late at night. In other news, Zeldman announces that JK Rowling’s site has been redesigned in accessible Flash. That’s chic. I can do accessible HTML when I put …
Blogging is the new buzzword in the office (finally). Today we were trading personal blog and photo gallery links. I’ve been working here for a year and all of us have only just opened up!
I just installed the Konfabulator and now enjoy a host of widgets, minus the price of upgrading to Tiger. You see, it’s now free. And it looks good: The great thing is, after this I managed to configure the Weather widget to show Singapore weather. I also managed to display Singapore stocks prices instead of …
Discovery Channel’s Travel & Adventure channel was showing a feature on Singapore food at noon today. Anthony Bourdain did the diplomatic thing and went to the Chinese, Malay and Indian haunts respectively. For Chinese food, he tried the Imperial Herbal restaurant, which actually was one of my favourites when I was a child (!). He …
The past couple of weeks have been emotionally moving for me. No, nothing tragic happened. Just a few words of appreciation from people which I didn’t expect, and they’ve made all the difference for me. I felt I was never very close to one of the couples in my old Bible study group, so when …
[Folks, I realised it’s been just over a year since I switched to a Mac. I’ve had a lot of fun with it, making music, making new Mac friends and seeing the cyberworld a little differently (nicer fonts, at least). Cheers!] Thanks to your advice, I finally made the trip to Sim Lim Square today, …
My last few days in the office have been spent ‘lobbying’ for using newsfeeds as a supplement to our website. I feel both public and private sectors in Singapore have been slow to make use of XML to disseminate information, preferring to use e-mails and more traditional forms of media for promotions and updates. And …
My nearly random thoughts on soirees, past and present. Dating and career prospects are in the balance…
I submitted a track to PenguinRemixed competition and left it at that for a week or more. I just checked the site and amazingly, found that I wasn’t at the bottom of the charts but somewhere closer to the middle. I don’t expect to get into the coveted top 10, and don’t qualify anyway since …