StarHub marketers would have you believe that MaxOnline has a bigger, and fatter pipe to the Internet.
What they didn’t want to let you know was this:
(pardon the lousy drawings)
To test this for yourself:
Point your web browser to http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest
Choose any server location to test from (I use Seattle, WA for consistency)
Take a close look at your [...]
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Humans get all riled up and vengeful if they get pissed off, but till now I have not realised the extremities that some would go to just to get back at the offending party.
In taking support calls, I have had customers whom are internally bitter about the governmental organisation that my company represents. You see, [...]
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As a civil libertarian, any sort of debate on casinos is already moot: while I won’t place my money on the green tables, you won’t see me protesting their entrance.
What I’d like to focus on is the persistent cries by some quarters on the social ills that would befall the country with the ultimate scourge [...]
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Well, I woke up at 10pm in the evening to find a delightful piece of argument on Bing De’s blog.
It hasn’t blown up in anybody’s face (and I seriously don’t think it ever will), but talking about whether Singlish is relevant in Singapore is definitely some real fodder for the sniping.
I remember that back then, [...]
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Some of my friends have told me that the Armed Forces have tightened the noose on imaging devices. While I am not surprised that they have been reticent on cameras, I was quite shocked when the blanket ban was announced.
Back during my time, the top brass was quite worried about revealing the features in the [...]
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It is the annual big thing for writers, on the same scale of size as the National Day Parade, but not costing as much, and not burning as many weekends (it burns everyday!)
On 1 November 2006, writers around the world, including approximately 200 from Singapore, will race towards writing a 50,000 word novel from straight [...]
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It is about to come again. The annually held NaNoWriMo, also known as the National Novel Writing Month, designates November of every year as the time for frentic and suicidal attempts to write out a 50,000 word novel by the end of the month.
And this time, they are not starting without me.
The pits of writing [...]
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Not that I blame the Indonesians, but recent nose-digging has led to dark and forboding discoveries. I couldn’t even begin to imagine what I would have gotten into my lungs had I gone out and gasped for breath through my mouth.
I know, it is a poor excuse for me to not be exercising, but with [...]
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