I was helping out at a youth health event today. Little did I realise that this was not just a typical sports award ceremony for fleet-footed youngsters, but a world record-breaking one. As reported on Channel News Asia, 14 year-old Rachael Baby Yue, clad in a skintight red costume, skipped 157 times in just 30 …
Month: March 2007
I was saddened to read about Kathy Sierra getting death threats. She was one of the more favourite speakers at SXSW this year and last year, as I noted earlier this month at SXSW. Then, my review of her Opening Remarks ended with the sentence, “I won’t be surprised if she’s invited back to SXSW …
[Update: New drummer has been found. We’ll see how it goes. 2 months to the concert!!] After the last incident with a runaway drummer, you’d think my jazz band the Moon Jumpers would have got going again. We found a good, new drummer, had a decent rehearsal in January… then we broke for Chinese New …
I was discussing on Kristen’s blog about how John Edwards added us as friends on Twitter. Of course it is quite unlikely that Mr Edwards himself is the one sitting by the computer, Twittering and blogging away, but it is a nice gesture nonetheless. On further investigation, it turns out that Barack Obama also has …
After Alvin‘s prestigious appearance on page 2 of Saturday’s Straits Times, our nation’s most established newspaper, you would think that our virtual Lion City (here’s my self-built slurl for those who have yet to visit it) would be a spanking representation of Singapore life. Imagine to my surprise when I logged on, landed at ‘Suntec …
I’m at Nexus 2007, in the NTUC Business Centre at One Marina Boulevard. The turnout has been pretty good. We started a bit late as the registration booths were flooded. Similar to SXSW 2007, the organisers are getting us to join them on Twitter. In addition there is also a live Campfire chat among participants. …
I met Cory Ondrejka, CTO of Linden Labs, the guys behind Second Life. He was entertaining and frank, although I really had no technical questions to ask, so I just listened on. The key points from his talk: Linden Labs is serious about getting good people from Singapore to join them. First on the list …
Anyone interested in watching the Observatory in concert at the NUS Arts Festival? Am thinking of going…
I have two invitations to try Joost. Anyone interested? Let me know soon. [Update: The first invite’s been sent to Rohan since he was the first to ask. For all invites, I need your First name AND Last name as well as email address (sorry, just realised that as I was filling up the form). …
I was invited to beta test the new Voice feature in Second Life. Instead of just tapping away on your keyboard and hearing, um, tappity sounds, you can actually hear the voices of the people you’re chatting with. I took screen shots of other members of the New Media Consortium group. Voice chat was working, …