I was invited to the launch of the new HP Pavilion dv2 Series Entertainment Notebook PC at Supperclub. Make that two notebooks actually, one in black and one in white. Which do you prefer? White. Black. Backlit keyboard. Separate Blu-Ray DVD recorder – just like the MacBook Air. Lots of cool HP software. You can …
Month: March 2009
The ‘meet the friends’ sessions have begun. Last week R and I attended the wedding of one of my Bristol law classmates and he got to meet a lot of people I was fairly close to. Last evening, R and I attended my childhood friend DC’s wedding. What’s amusing is that I knew of DC’s …
After [hearing](http://www.plurk.com/p/k2iwe) about another [misquoting incident](http://www.geekonomics.us/2009/03/setting-the-records-straight/) in the local media I thought I should share a similar incident which also happened recently, to a classmate of mine. A few weeks ago I [reported](http://vantan.org/insead/2009/02/insead-in-the-news-twice.php) that one of my classmates made it to the quarter finals of L’Oreal’s EStrat, a global marketing simulation contest. I scanned the …
In the last couple of minutes, I’ve come up with a new, quick game. Step 1: Go here: [http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php](http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php) Step 2: Type in the URL of your own blog to find out its latest PageRank. Step 3: From there, type in another URL of another website that has a PageRank that’s 1 point higher than …
At the rate things are going, I have to rename my blog as it is surely no longer ‘daily’. Even ‘weekly’ would be good. Anyway I tend to be [Twittering](http://twitter.com/vantan) and [Plurking](http://plurk.com/vantan) and updating Facebook much more often than once a day so I hope that evens out my blogging GPA 🙂 I have a …
In the middle of class today (yes, I had full day class on a Sunday), I took out my MacBook Pro. Soon after that, a Taiwanese classmate sitting at my table extended her hand and shook mine, enthusiastically. She thanked me for supporting Taiwanese components as I had so many gadgets (I had an iPhone …
A short list on what I’ve been up to, of late. **Reducing clutter:** – Unsubscribing from some mailing lists that send emails I’ve lost interest in reading – Filtering other emails and archiving them immediately, so my Inbox looks less intimidating – Throwing out old notes, putting in new notes. – Eventually, scan my old …