Archive for August, 2007

A Nation of System Gaming

Posted by  in August 21st, 2007  
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Posted in: Diary, Singapore     

Tuesday. Di di… Di di… The alarm was set fairly late today. Although I know that the session starts at 8am, I wanted to skip the fluffy part and just get some technical details. After all, what do I know about blade servers? I got up and stared at the clock – 9am. Then the [...]

Friends Forever – Malaysia and Singapore

Posted by  in August 9th, 2007  
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Posted in: Malaysia, Singapore     

Alas, forget the quirky title. Search engines are dumb that way. I got the idea after seeing this huge ST pull out for “Friendship” in Singapore, as a National Day special in Singapore, and I thought it’s amusing that the most important friendship, that is of these two brother and sister countries are not mentioned [...]

We don’t have Middle Names you Idiots!

Posted by  in August 1st, 2007  
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Posted in: SCS     

Now and then I get rather flustered when I see websites crash because they make assumptions about people around the world. Although I myself might make such mistakes, I see no reason for big corporations who have presence in the target country for YEARS to make such mistakes. Here’s an example: I don’t have a [...]