Bonsoir. Je m’appelle Vanessa. Je suis étudiante a l’Alliance Française. Je voudrais améliorer mon Français. Il estC’est vingt-trois heures est je suis fatigue. That’s about all I can recall / figure out at the moment. I first studied French at Alliance Francaise in 1997 while waiting for my A-level results. I completed two levels, Elementary …
Month: March 2008
… to go with my eggs and ham. A drink of note at SXSW 2008. Then I discovered they also serve green beer in Singapore. At the [Red Dot Brewhouse](http://www.hungrygowhere.com/singapore/reddot_brewhouse/). Now all we need is a Green Day album to listen to… The only thing is, I don’t agree with the claim that this beer …
To my Chinese readers: Look at this photo and tell me what this is. This was the decoration on each SXSW Web Awards table. I didn’t notice it at first because there were many things going on, but then my eyes rested on the candles and then the paper they were on… Isn’t this the …
Here’s my account of how the panel went, with added thoughts thrown in. Kevin thinks [it didn’t work out](http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=2152) due to technical glitches, but I can assure him the audience loved him. I’ll add more blog links once they come up. It was exciting seeing Kevin on screen. At least it was better than our …
[Forbes.com](http://www.forbes.com/) has launched the Business and Finance Blog Network, comprising “a community of pre-screened, influential business and financial blogs”. I’m proud to be a member of this new community. Citing the press release: > The Blog Network’s content will focus on senior business decision makers and high-net-worth investors. Topics will be relevant to the banking, …
Alexander is attracted by my red-clad MacBook Pro, and ventures towards it. However, there is no fear! For MagSafe, [protector of notebooks](http://magsafecounter.blogspot.com/) and small children, is here! Alexander meets MacBook Pro from Vanessa Tan on Vimeo.
[Kevin](http://theory.isthereason.com/) and I will be speaking on the topic of Web 2.0 at the NUS Business School on Saturday 29 March. This is organised by Start-Up@Singapore and is part of their Emerging Industry Series. Extract: **Emerging Industry Series – Web 2.0** Join us in the concluding installment of the Emerging Industry Series to discover the …
That’s right. I was just asked to fill up a SXSW feedback form and was amused with some of the questions and answer options. (Note that this survey was more on the *operational* aspects of SXSW rather than the actual content of each panel…) Firstly, we were asked to rate items on a scale of …
I’m catching up with Gmail blog posts and thought [this tip](http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html) was particularly useful. You can modify your Gmail address when you give it out to different organisations, so the next time you get emailed (or spammed) you know who the source is. You can add a ‘+’ or ‘.’ after your Gmail username and …
Here they are, finally… after restoring my old laptop’s hard drive.