Month: April 2008

God’s vessels

I have come to a realisation. Through God’s grace over the years, my work has been featured in the press. That has in turn made it easier to gain support for subsequent new media projects. In a very small way, I hope that will lead to a ripple effect as we all endeavour to open …

Peranakan Museum sneak preview

I was fortunate to gain a sneak preview of the [new exhibition at the Peranakan Museum](http://www.peranakanmuseum.sg/) along Armenian Street, courtesy of the curator. My family donated some items so we were given a private tour. We often hear about [Peranakan cuisine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peranakan_cuisine) but seldom delve deep into Peranakan culture and history. At the museum, we saw …

Xiaxue’s iPhone review

Don’t get me wrong – I love my iPhone. However, I think [Xiaxue’s iPhone review](http://xiaxue.blogspot.com/2008/04/apple-users-hate-me.html) is totally hilarious and should be taken in the right spirit. She has a point about the fingernails part, but overall her critique is nothing to get so worked up about. As much as I am a fan of Apple …

Sending you flowers

Subscribers to my feed will now have a little extra somethin’ – my most recent [Ma.gnolia bookmarks](http://ma.gnolia.com/people/vantan/bookmarks). Ma.gnolia is a product of [Zeldman](http://www.zeldman.com/)’s [Happy Cog Studios](http://www.happycog.com/), and is similar in nature to [Del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us/), except that it looks prettier. Of course, more people probably use [Del.icio.us](http://del.icio.us/), but I wanted to be different 😛 And Zeldman himself …

Facebook launches Lexicon

Want to find out which are the hottest buzzwords on Facebook? Check out [Lexicon](http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/), which was [launched](http://www.insidefacebook.com/2008/04/15/facebook-lexicon-visualizes-conversation-trends-on-facebook/) on 15 April 2008. Lexicon counts occurrences of words and phrases on Facebook Walls, over time. I made a few searches. Not surprisingly, “Obama” appears more frequently than “Clinton. The sharp spikes make sense as they corresponded with …

Parsing fancy

After upgrading to Movable Type 4 templates, I’m still sorting out some kinks that pop up every now and then. The most recent kink was spotted by [Jimmy Liew](http://cynics.info/) who noticed that my Feedburner feed hadn’t been updated in a while. Thanks, Jimmy! Turns out that the ampersands in some of my category names were …

My Straits Times photo’s for sale

Thanks to [Nick Pan](http://www.nickpan.com/) for finding [this photo of me](http://rednano.sg/sfe/image.action?view=image&querystring=vanessa+tan+health&x=0&y=0) on the new Singapore search engine, [rednano.sg](http://rednano.sg/). The photo was taken for my 2006 Straits Times political desk interview as part of the Gahmen Bloggers feature. The photographer was at my place, and I recall telling him as I sat at my piano, “I work …