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My November 2008 site traffic stats: 9,908,294 hits, 724,046 pages and 171,508 visits from 144,360 unique sites, with about 40.3 million KBytes transferred over the month. A solid month, with traffic holding comfortably in the millions.
Microsoft Singapore flew in Tim Huckaby from headquarters to talk on Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight 2.0 and programming for Microsoft Surface. Consistently rated among the top 10% of speakers, Huckaby focuses on smart client technologies, making for an engaging session.
Nokia has announced the N79 today, arriving in the first quarter of next year. It will be the first Nseries touch device and Nokia's second touchscreen overall, after the XpressMusic 5800, running S60 5th Edition on WCDMA with HSDPA.
Went to Sitex 2008 yesterday with Julian, Kelvin and Weiquan; surprisingly it wasn't very crowded. I'm starting to dislike Sitex for being so far out. This year disappointed: Ban Leong skipped it, so there were no Razer products at all.
My year 3, semester 1 exams are over! Yesterday's last paper, CS4254 IS Project Management, was the hardest of the semester, and most of my friends agreed. The past-year paper was much easier, despite being set by the same lecturer.
I had my first paper Saturday at 9am, helped by my school McDonald's and Subway both going 24 hours during the exam period. All my papers are open book this semester; the first, CS3251 Technology Strategy Management, was tough.
Just back from the Intel Core i7 launch at Equinox, Swissotel The Stamford, my second visit after an OCBC Chinese New Year dinner with my mom. Equinox sits on the 70th floor, so as you'd expect the view is stunning.
I ordered Fabrix Cases for my MacBook Pro last Sunday, delivered Wednesday by ordinary post with a S$1.50 stamp rather than courier. I'm amazed the postman squeezed the laptop sleeve into my letterbox. I chose the Delux Laptop Case.
Spotting two HardwareZone threads, Post pic of ur room and Showcase Your Mac(s) 2008, I decided to snap some photos of my computer table. Just sharing them here for anyone curious about what my workspace looks like.
Yesterday was Li Xiang's 24th birthday, so we had a mini celebration at Yaki Yaki Bo in Jurong Point's Shokutsu 10 Osaka food area. It's a teppanyaki restaurant, similar in concept to Sakae Teppanyaki, but with its own twist.
I caught Tropic Thunder a few weeks back and thought it decent, with plenty of cameos; I didn't realise Les Grossman was Tom Cruise until the credits. The Tugg Speedman and Alpa Chino exchanges made me laugh the most.
Barack Obama has won the US presidential election with 364 electoral votes to John McCain's 163, plus Democratic majorities in the Senate and House. Hopefully the economy recovers. Fellow Singaporeans, we need change here too in 2011.
As many of you know, the MacBook Pro shipped to me on 21st October 2008 has a dead pixel right in the middle of the screen. I expected better quality from Apple, but I was clearly wrong.
My October 2008 site traffic stats: 10,028,100 hits, 732,058 pages and 167,902 visits from 142,702 unique sites, with about 36.7 million KBytes transferred over the month. A solid month, with traffic holding steady in the millions.
I got the standalone Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Premier Edition from The Software Boutique for S$79.90. Another version at S$89.90 adds a t-shirt and 2GB thumbdrive, but the default bundles are lousy, S$119 for the Office edition!
Today marks our fourth anniversary together. I picked Li Xiang up from school and we headed to Bras Basah, where I bought expiry-date stickers from Modern Bookstore and she got a book from Basheer Graphic Books as a gift.
I received my Apple MacBook Pro 2.53GHz yesterday via TNT, after ordering from the Apple Store on 16th October 2008. TNT offered only two delivery slots: office hours from 9am to 6pm, or night delivery from 7pm to 10pm.
I caught Max Payne over the weekend instead of 20th Century Boys, as the timeslot was earlier. I played the Max Payne game during my polytechnic days and still recalled some scenes while watching, though the storyline disappointed.
Right after Adobe Flash Player 10 launched, Adobe announced that Creative Suite 4 has begun shipping. Woot! The highly anticipated release of the CS4 product family is now immediately available, bringing major updates across Adobe's design and development tools.
Apple has refreshed the MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. The 15-inch Pro now starts at S$3,188 with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR3 and dual NVIDIA GeForce 9400M and 9600M GT graphics.
Microsoft has released Silverlight 2, available to download tomorrow. I've been waiting for this, as Silverlight 1 and 1.1 felt in their infancy. Microsoft calls it one of the industry's most comprehensive and powerful solutions for creating rich applications.
It's confirmed: Windows 7 will simply be called Windows 7. Since development began, Microsoft had been referring to the next Windows client by the codename Windows 7, and now they've decided to keep it as the official name.