I was driving out of the Sheraton Towers car park last evening and it took a while for the system to deduct the fee from my In-Vehicle Unit (IU). [To those not from Singapore, this is a device used in our Electronic Road Pricing which is installed in vehicles so that money can be deducted …
It’s that time of the year again, when I’m firming up my travel plans for SXSW. This time, I’m not leaving right after the Interactive conference is over – I’m staying a few more days to enjoy the music! It’s with a tinge of sadness that I’ve decided this will be my last SXSW in …
This is the update on my 1TB Maxtor external hard drive. I sent it to a local data recovery company for a free evaluation and this was the prognosis: > Our data recovery specialist had done an evaluation of your hard disk. The harddisk has files structure damage and multiple read write errors. The read/write …
My Maxtor OneTouch III Turbo external hard disk served me well for nearly a year until it started having hiccups last week. After several attempts to revive it, it seems brain dead. The power supply and fans is still working, but the hard disk is making clicking sounds. A lot of bad things have happened …
After making whirring sounds for a few weeks, my Dell laptop’s hard disk breathed its last. To be precise, I simply couldn’t start Windows. I kept being asked if I wanted to start in various forms of Safe Mode. However, no matter what I selected, a blue screen would flash on and off, and I’d …
My little Ixus 50 was purchased just over 2 years ago, as recorded on this blog. It served its purpose well. Its diminuitive size and fast startup time allowed it to take numerous candid shots that I would not have been able to capture with a conspicious, clunky SLR. The little Ixus took thousands of …
Tried out another virtual world just now – [There.com](http://there.com/). It felt easier to install than Second Life, and there didn’t seem to be as great a lag either. However the target audience is teens, and very obviously so. If you like the way the Sims look, you may like There. However, if you already play …
I bought a new 2GB CompactFlash II card so I could take lots of National Day Parade photos using my dad’s Nikon D70 SLR camera. I thought it would be good to get a high-speed card so that large files could be saved quickly, which would make it ideal for taking fast-moving objects and fireworks. …
Finally, a new podcast episode from yours truly! This is specifically about podcasting gear with reference to yesterday’s Podcamp demo. I’m just crazy about the different types of gear that can be used for podcasting. As podcasts can sound naked without music, I just composed and produced a track in about an hour. I don’t …
Podcamp was fun! You can say we became happy campers, though I was kinda sad it had to end. This morning, Mitch took us through the basics of social media. My fellow media socialists would probably have heard of most of the websites and tools mentioned (e.g. Google, Technorati, RSS), so I won’t go into …