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.
MIX-it-up is a series of technology briefings offering interactive presentations, cutting-edge technology and real-world examples. All MIX-it-up events are held in the Microsoft Singapore office auditorium on the 21st floor of NTUC Building, and registration is required to attend.
Terry Peh emailed me this; I'm not sure it's true, but I found it interesting enough to share. Cancer Facts, part one: everyone has cancer cells, which don't show up in standard tests until they've multiplied into billions.
We caught the 7.30pm Disney On Ice show, its last slot of the day, at Singapore Indoor Stadium last Saturday, 8th March 2008. Beforehand we had dinner with Wayne at Bao Luo Wan Xiang in Plaza Singapura's basement two.
FRRO will undergo scheduled maintenance this Friday, 14th March 2008, from 2200 to 0400 GMT+8, an estimated six hours, as our servers migrate to the REACH Datacenter. Expect the affected sites to be offline during that window.
San Alfonso del Mar is a resort on Chile's central coast, famous for its 1,000-metre, 19-acre outdoor pool, which holds a Guinness world record. The pool uses technology from Chilean company Crystal Lagoons, pumping in filtered seawater.
I was woken by a call at 4.34am. A guy asked if I was Lester and if I was from Chatline. I confirmed I'm Lester but not from Chatline. He asked again, I said no, and he hung up.
Behold these Zerg in-game videos from StarCraft 2, giving an early look at the swarm in action. Blizzard hasn't updated the official StarCraft 2 site yet, so for now these clips are the best glimpse of Zerg gameplay around.
After weeks of never-ending tutorials, assignments and projects, Li Xiang and I took a break to reward ourselves with good food. We tried Shokudo Japanese Food Bazaar in the basement of Raffles City, a $3-million Japanese-style marche restaurant.
It seems everyone was buying at IT Show 2008 except my brother and me. My mom got a WD Passport 250GB and Canon PIXMA MX700, others grabbed Canon IXUS cameras, and Wayne bought an Asus F8Sn laptop.
I'm so annoyed with TNT's service. They said they'd collect my Nokia N81 8GB between 3pm and 5pm, and now it's 5.45pm and they're still not here. I called the driver, who asked me to wait another 20 minutes. Ridiculous!
Some new features in IE8 Beta 1. Activities are contextual services offering quick access to external services from any webpage. WebSlices let sites expose portions of a page that users can subscribe to.
First, your Nokia phone must be 802.11-enabled, whether an Nseries or Eseries. I'm using S60 3rd Edition, Symbian OS 9.2, as an example, though it should work on other S60 editions. We'll use the NUS WLAN SSID rather than NUSOPEN.
Nokia is bringing Microsoft Silverlight to S60 on Symbian OS later this year. Now we just need Adobe Flash Lite 3 delivered to our phones; impatient developers can already grab the Flash Lite 3 Developer Edition in the meantime.
IT Show 2008 runs this Thursday to Sunday, 6th to 9th March 2008, at Suntec City Exhibition Centre on levels 1, 3, 4 and 6. I'm planning to pick up a Canon Digital IXUS 860 IS for my uncle.
Nokia announced the N-Gage platform last August at its Go Play event, held in London and Singapore. Some may recognise N-Gage from the older gaming phones, the N-Gage Classic and QD, but this is a new software platform.
I went to Nic and Blair's farewell party at Screening Room Rooftop Bar on Ann Siang Road yesterday. The view is magnificent and I'll definitely return with Li Xiang, though the prices, especially the food, are a little steep.
Today is 29th February 2008, and the next time February has 29 days will be 2012. A leap year contains one or more extra days to keep the calendar synchronised with the astronomical year.
I got a shock arriving home from school today: a package from Adobe Singapore containing Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection. I was shocked and overjoyed beyond words; Adobe's online shop lists it at a whopping US$3,200.
I caught L: Change The World at Cineleisure last Friday, a spin-off featuring L from the Death Note films. After writing his own name in the Death Note, L has 23 days left, and the movie follows those final days.
My old Sitoca table has lasted over five years and is still excellent, so I'm passing it to Li Xiang, whose table is collapsing. I went to Ikea for a new desk, a table top on Vika Grevsta legs.
DotAsia has put .asia domain names up for sale, with premium names ranging from US$4,000 to US$21,000 per their auctions page. The so-called landrush for the latest suffix has begun, and DotAsia expects huge demand for the new namespace.
The format war is finally over and Blu-ray has won. I'm quite happy, as I always preferred it over HD-DVD. Consumers benefit greatly from a single standard, just like DVD and CD; Toshiba today announced it's ceasing HD-DVD production.