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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.
As usual I'm swamped with school, with assignments due every week since week three, and it's now mid-October. My last day of school is 14th November 2008, with three exams on the 22nd, 25th and 27th.
Busy with Nokia Remix 2008, I hadn't compiled my September traffic stats, but better late than never. September 2008 saw 10,026,167 hits, 804,734 pages and 173,723 visits, with about 37.3 million KBytes transferred over the month.
This is the second part of the Nokia Remix 2008 event, a party from 7pm at the Red Dot Design Museum, where I went with Li Xiang. A blogger meet at Pacific Coffee let us try the XpressMusic 5800.
Nokia Remix 2008 Singapore was held this morning at 9am at Supper Club, Odeon Towers, a beautiful space whose huge, comfy sofas nearly put me to sleep. Thanks to yesterday's pre-media briefing, I already knew most of what Nokia announced.
It's now 1am Singapore time and my NDA has ended, so I can finally talk about the Nokia XpressMusic 5800, aka The Tube. Thanks to Text 100, and Supriya, I attended the Nokia Remix 2008 pre-media briefing at Marina Mandarin.
Here's a tutorial on configuring your iPhone, iPhone 3G/3GS or iPod Touch to connect to NUS Wireless. We use the NUS SSID rather than NUSOPEN, since NUS is PEAP-protected and much faster. Note an iOS 4 bug affects this too.
I've been swamped with school lately, despite a one-week holiday I spent catching up on never-ending assignments. There seems to be one due every week, all report writing, which basically tests your Googling, paraphrasing and, frankly, smoking skills.
A popular site that converted binary .plist files to ASCII text XML has been down for a while, so I've mirrored it, using PHP instead of Perl for the processing. Here's the link.
I had a good laugh at these questions. If FedEx and UPS merged, would they be Fed UP? If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from? And why aren't people from Holland called Holes?