Nokia @ The Straits
I had an informal gathering with Nokia, Text 100 and several bloggers at The Straits, 31 Pekin Street, Far East Square. At first I confused it with The Straits Kitchen at Hyatt Hotel; luckily the full address was given.
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Founder of lesterchan.net, a Singapore tech and gadgets blog running since 2002. An engineering leader by day and a WordPress plugin developer since 2003, with a soft spot for gadgets, smart home, and a good deal.
Nokia N79, N85, N96 Announced Officially
Nokia held a media event at House @ 8D Dempsey Road at 2pm to officially launch the N79, N85 and N96. Sadly I had my first tutorial then. The N79 succeeds the N78 and the N85 succeeds the N81.
Singapore iPhone 3G Launch At SingTel
I was at the Singapore iPhone 3G launch at SingTel ComCentre at midnight on 22nd August 2008. Arriving around 9.15pm to queue, I was 43rd according to the sticker on my application form. There were two parts to the queue.
SingTel iPhone 3G Price Plans
SingTel has released its iPhone 3G prices for the iFlexi plans. This post also links to my pricing write-ups for the later iPhone 3GS, 4, 4S, 5, 5c/5s, 6/6 Plus and 6s/6s Plus on SingTel, for easy comparison.
Just Some Random Entry
It's been a while since I blogged about my personal life, and I haven't watched a movie in over a month; my last was The Dark Knight in KL. I've also just finished my first week of school.
SingTel Confirm Launch Of iPhone 3G On 22nd August
Singapore Telecommunications will start selling Apple's third-generation iPhone in Singapore on 22nd August. SingTel's Singapore CEO Allen Lew said there are tens of thousands on its reservation lists, with those who registered online getting priority for the phone at launch.
PHP4 Is Dead, Long Live PHP5
PHP 4.4.9 has been released, the very last PHP4 update, as PHP4 reached end-of-life on 8th August 2008. PHP 5.3 is due between mid-September and mid-October 2008. So for goodness' sake, nag your lazy server admin to upgrade to PHP5!
Intel Core i7
Intel has announced the successor to the Core 2 Quad, codenamed Yorkfield: the Core i7, codenamed Nehalem. The new desktop processors are built on Intel's upcoming microarchitecture, promising a significant leap in performance over the previous generation.
lesterchan.net on iPhone
I spent over ten hours reworking lesterchan.net's layout to be iPhone-friendly. For now you can only view blog posts, not pages; I've no plans to make pages mobile-viewable yet, as it's a lot of work I find unnecessary.
Linksys WAG200G With Singnet Broadband
Let me start by saying ADSL sucks and cable is the way to go. Authenticating over a phone line to connect is so 56K-era. ADSL disconnects far more than cable and its modem is buried in settings to configure.
M1 Broadband
From tomorrow, Singaporeans can surf with a new fixed broadband service from M1. Having offered mobile broadband since 2006, M1 becomes a full-fledged broadband player with the launch of M1 Fixed Broadband, broadening competition in the local home internet market.
Site Traffic July 2008
My July 2008 site traffic stats: 9,569,791 hits, 765,670 pages and 166,191 visits from 111,190 unique sites, with about 32 million KBytes transferred over the month. A healthy month, with traffic holding steady well into the millions.
Year 3, Semester 1 Modules
These are the modules I'm taking in my third year, first semester: Technology Strategy and Management, Service Science, IS Project Management and Strategic IS Planning, each worth four module credits. Time, too, for a bit of a rant about them.
$300 Takashimaya And Nokia N78
Before heading to KL, I learned by email and SMS that I'd won a Text 100 contest from Nokia Connection 2008. I assumed it was an E71 or E66, but it's a Nokia N78 plus $300 Takashimaya vouchers.
My Weekend Trip To Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
On Friday, 18th July 2008, I took a short weekend trip with Li Xiang, my mum and my uncle to Kuala Lumpur. My uncle drove the roughly 340km to Bukit Bintang. We'd planned to leave at 2pm.
Mum’s Birthday Celebration
Last Friday, 11th July 2008, was my mum's 50th birthday, which we celebrated at Pete's Place in Hyatt Hotel. The food disappointed compared to their Sunday lunch buffet, with mains from S$20 to S$40, each including the bread bar.
Lester Chan’s WordPress Plugins July 2008 Update
Here's my July 2008 update covering all 15 of my WordPress plugins. They should work on both WordPress 2.5 and 2.6, but aren't tested below that. Most changes are bug fixes, and should keep working a while.
WordPress 2.6 Released
WordPress 2.6 has been released. New features include post revisions with wiki-like edit tracking, Press This for posting from anywhere on the web, a turbo mode to speed up blogging, theme previews, a word count and captions under your images.
Latest Ah Beng Jokes
Got this off my email, titled Ah Beng Jokes. In Singapore, an Ah Beng is a small-time gangster. One joke: Ah Beng bought a new mobile and messaged everyone in his phone book, saying his number had changed.
iPhone Firmware 2.0
It's Friday, 11th July 2008 in Singapore, and the iPhone 3G has launched in New Zealand and Australia, with more countries following by time zone. Here there are rumours the iPhone 3G will come later than the expected September 2008.
Asus F8Sg Laptop
We bought an Asus F8Sg laptop from South Asia Computer at Funan for my dad. He's been using a friend's laptop to Skype us, limited by timing. With wireless internet in his apartment, this should free him up nicely.
Kukup, Malaysia
I took a short trip to Kukup, Malaysia with nine polytechnic friends, including Li Xiang, Laily, Suqin, Wayne and Robert. It's my second visit, the first being eleven years ago in 1997. Kukup Laut is a unique, century-old fishing village.