Hello, Time Magazine’s Person of the Year! We were at NTUC 7th floor, in a meeting organized by TDM, thanks to Su Yuen‘s heads up. Too bad we didn’t see each other there as she has to watch TV in M’sia. Andreas S. Weigend is one of the most outspoken gurus in the field of [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Andreas Weigend @ SG
SCS Marathon Results
Finally, the marathon fever draws to a close. According to our own calculations, SCS runners have successfully clocked a total of 965km out of a registered total of 1,148km. This is a tremendous achievement as our first attempt, and I’m really proud of our runners and supporters alike (especially those HR folks who went to [...]
Goh Toh Chai in Concert
21 Dec 2006, 8pm @ Victoria Concert Hall (That is this Thursday my friends!) Dr Zechariah Goh Toh Chai: Composer, Recipient of the 2003 National Arts Council Young Artist Award for artistic excellance in Music and the 2001 & 2002 Anthony Cius Prize for Composers from the University of Kansas, NAFA Music Lecturer, Music Director [...]
Tie me Kangaroo down, Sport – are the abos loose yet?
Got this from fwak. Listen to the music (cilck here) – I can’t stop repeating it But there’s a catch – this song have inded touched the nerved of some Australians ealier as some of its lyrics are racists. According to a piece of news from news.com.au, Rolf did eventually says sorry for the “abo” [...]
TheOnlineCitizen has moved
TheOnlineCitizen has moved to a wordperss blog recently. Now you can access it via http://theonlinecitizen.com, or its flickr photos. I like this particular site because of its “MalaysiaKini letters” style of writing. It’s not Tomorrow.sg (too “zhap” as in confusing due to variety of opinions), and it’s also a bit different from your average personal [...]
Hello world!
Hello world indeed! Any posts you find before this one is actually imported from xanga. I am Totally Blown Away by the usability of wordpress. Gosh I think I’m actually going to donate some money to them. Thanks for all the fish – I love you guys!
Are You a Programmer? Myers-Briggs Personality Type Test
Just took the Are You a Programmer? Myers-Briggs Personality Type Test By Peter Bromberg, basically a variation on the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Test designed for programmers, with background information on the indicator and links to useful details and stuff. The results were actually quite surprising. I mean I’ve always seen myself as an INTJ (Mastermind/Scientist), [...]
Map of the Internet
Source: http://xkcd.com/c195.html – I’m sure they took the data from IANA. But the fractal idea makes total sense. Still, I wished that there were some cool class B addresses being shown. CMU is 128.2.x.x, SCS’s IDC is 192.245.x.x etc. Lots of toys can be found on one of my favourite DNS website: www.dnsstuff.com. The authority [...]
Seasons Greeting from CMU
Got this in the mail today from Randy Bryant. See the cute heading? That’s EdgeWrite. EdgeWrite is an award-winning accessible handheld and desktop text-entry sstem for users with motor impairments. Developed by Jacob Wobbrock (CMU CS ’06) and SCS Professor Brad Myers, EdgeWrite recognizes letters by the sequence in which the corners of a small [...]
Genting Won!
Genting won the IR bid! As in: GENTING-STAR Cruises has won the bid for the Sentosa Integrated Resort (IR), beating the two other contenders Eighth Wonder and Kerzner International-Capitaland, the Government announced on Friday. Now to build it … Must go find business now…











