Bird’s Nest in my house!

When I first became an Amex cardholder, four years ago, my name was spelt wrongly on the newly-issued credit card.* I called Customer Service, who sent me a new card – which was also spelt wrongly. I called Customer Service again, and they sent me another card – still, spelt wrongly. Evidence – two replacement…

I’m grumpy. Despite advice from my readers, I can’t seem to get that danged HP driver to work. It just doesn’t recognise the driver. I wanted to import some Firefox bookmarks from my PC. However when I hooked my old computer back up again to the power line and home network, the mouse device couldn’t…

Here’s a recent BBC interview with Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium and inventor of the Internet (no, it wasn’t Al Gore). In fact, the interview gives us a glimpse into the W3C’s noble objectives – developing technologies like standards to achieve a common platform that will create a forum for information,…

Finally, my video of Danny giving us a lesson in making the perfect cup of gourmet coffee at Geek Terminal, has been edited and compressed. Check it out: See my previous post on [Dinner at Geek Terminal](http://vantan.org/archives/2008/02/dinner_at_geek.php), for the full story.

I have been out of touch with happenings in the Blogosphere lately, but I’d like to send my rather belated congratulations to Rinaz for winning the award for Best Asian Blog 2007! Sorry Rinaz, I meant to give you my vote but was busy and forgot, and anyway it turns out you didn’t need my…

I arrived in time for registration at the Marina Mandarin hotel, but learnt that members of the press, as well as ‘locals’, would only get their name tags tomorrow. That felt strange, some of us going around without name tags. Fortunately, it was still easy to strike up a conversation. It felt like I was…