Picture walking along Suntec City shopping mall at 11.45pm, with nary another soul in sight. The lights are dimmed, to save energy of course; and since you take that route almost every Saturday evening, you won’t be expecting anything to be amiss. Until you see this: I really wish companies setting up booths don’t do [...]
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Michael Jackson was my very first exposure to pop music. Back when I was still a child, my mother had always stuck the radio to the very “auntie” chinese radio station 95.8FM. Although there were the occasional few mandarin pop songs that I loved, the rest of the playlist were nearly non-understandable. Like, 1950s and [...]
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As an art terrorist (as not so affectionately referred to by a certain art teacher in my secondary school), I have the tendancy to sit and gape in awe at great works. And by that I mean cool animations. However permanently I remain turned off static art, moving visuals never fail to amaze and stun [...]
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Update 1: (11 July 2009) Microsoft product manager Dev Balasubramanian has posted a very formal reply, essentially telling everyone that they’re not going to change their stance on this. Of course, as opposed to actually listening to the overwhelming number of opposition to their plan in the comments above, it makes better sense to hide [...]
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Yup, that was the cause for the emergency upgrade today. You see, there’s apparently a bug triggered which crashes the FastCGI set-up we have over here on the server. The entire array of threads handling all the PHP processing just called it quits. Problem is, I couldn’t reproduce this issue, and the only symptoms of [...]
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I’ve actually read about commercial espionage and sabotage operations, but I’ve never given it serious thought. And that is despite the huge dramatisation about shady characters sitting in dark rooms, typing away at glowing monitor screens. Come to think about it, it’s the dramatisation that got me to put it out of my mind! But [...]
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Things have been a bit messy for me lately. My team got kicked out of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup competition, and all of the sudden, we have lots of stuff due for submission. I probably should explain a little: my team is doing a project for submission into the Imagine Cup competition, and are using it [...]
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I followed the live feed from Wayang Party and The Online Citizen on the Association of Women for Action and Research’s extra-ordinary general meeting held today. Personally, I’m not a religious person; I’m more of a spiritual-meditating kind. And besides that, I’m getting too busy to join in social causes like in the past. But [...]
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