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I haven’t, honest-to-goodness for the life of me, had time to review my favourite newsfeeds since I started work again. I nearly had to skip one friend’s wedding this weekend because of contractor problems (but I made it, hallelujah), and nearly forgot about an ex-colleague’s forthcoming wedding, AND I forgot the birthday of one of…

What’s cool: Democratic National Convention speeches by the likes of Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, John Edwards and of course, John Kerry, available for free download on iTunes. What’s not: You need a US credit card to download them. Bah. Anyone has any better ideas?

Facebook has just opened up to public users who can associate themselves by region (instead of school or workplace). IMHO, it’s a big threat to Friendster and Myspace. Now social networking becomes a triumvirate. Join the Singapore network! If you’re a friend of mine, add me. I’ve sent invites to some of you. The first…

Avid surfers: Suffering from information overload? Wired’s top news story on news aggregators got me checking out a few alternatives to Feed Reader, which I currently use as a free, standalone program to read my favourite weblogs and other syndicated news. In the end, I settled for Newsmonster, which integrates with your web browser. This…

Nokia phones exploding (link from Kottke). According to a book on security, Nokia allegedly rigs its phones to switch to full power mode when third party batteries are detected, and blames those manufacturers for the damage. Sharp producing the world’s first 3D laptop monitor. No goggles required. I’d expect the price tag to be in…

I got my regular email from Sitepoint and was pleasantly surprised to see a fellow Web Standards enthusiast in it! All I can say is: Support Chu Yeow and his book, Firefox Secrets!! In his own words…