Google said, and I tried. And finally the ugly non-elitist emoticons have landed in my Gmail mail-box. I’m sorry, but software features can also be the “lack” or something; one doesn’t have to always follow the “masses”. If the positioning is going to be appealing to the “low”, then I guess there’ll be more MSN/Yahoo [...]

Grid Services Provision Call For Collaboration, submit by Feb. So, do you share your computing and storage resources? Singapore’s National Grid (not to mention others around the world as well like the one MIMOS is working on in Malaysia [PDF]) are yet another attempt by computer scientists in 4 decades to put together a lot [...]

Someone buy me a Nike + iPod… I will run when my exams are over – I promise! In the meantime, all the best to those taking part in this Sunday’s Singapore Marathon. You can now achieve two things together – get goodies from StanChart – and – get Nike to donate to charity for [...]

Come join me in flooding the streaming infrastructure of MDA – I’m sure as people pick up their TODAY paper like me would have visited the government agency’s site by now, so if you haven’t here it is again (opens new window): http://www.mda.gov.sg/wms.www/video.htm Fact is, the duplicated YouTube version has already finish streaming and for [...]

My patience is rewarded when I finally got to zoom down to this level. For those interested, perhaps you want to launch the java applet form OneMotoring now and let it load (very very slowly…) before reading the rest of the post. Around my work area – Suntec City As you can see – the [...]

Not too bad. After dinner yesterday Su Yuen tested out her awesome new thing she’s beta testing: QIK, where she went with a camera phone to talk to her dorm mates, while the rest of us could watch it on the website itself. First thing that came to my mind was, weirdly, Bersih! hahaha! Of [...]

It’s holiday! As you plan your school holidays and do remember to slot in this exciting all-Russian programme brought to you by The Philharmonic Winds on December 7th @ the Esplanade!. Tickets are dirt cheap: $15, $20, $25, $35, $50 – and if you’re student, remember the drill – go order through your school and [...]

After a long time dealing with a pineapple and some knitted fabric and alumni unable to articulate an identifiable living thing that would symbolize their alma mater, and the urge to keep with the school’s Scottish tradition (as the founder is of Scottish heritage), Carnegie’s pet dog, a Scottish Terrier, became the school’s new mascot [...]

Wah Hafiz’s account was so the detail Check it out! Dunno if this is a sign of citizen journalism being very alive or that he’s just a laudable outlier… Part I – Of from the frontline of Bersih rally Part II – Of the atmosphere of the city hours prior to the Bersih rally Excerpts: [...]

Reading bersih.org’s website before it was pulled down gave me the impression that there’s going to be a big mess, guess the dispersion technique today was effective. Some (~20?) were caught unfortunately. Also heard that tear gas, chemical-laced water was used to disperse the crowd earlier. Here’s the news video from Malaysiakini, Anwar focused.