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On Friday I went to the Singapore Chinese Garden for the Lantern Festival 2008, themed F8: Hello Kitty Go Races. I'm not sure why it's called F8, perhaps because the mooncake festival falls in the eighth lunar month.
Google has jumped onto the web browser bandwagon with Chrome, an open-source browser. Highlights include the auto-completing Omnibox address bar, the speedy V8 JavaScript virtual machine, a privacy mode, and the ability to launch web apps standalone.
My August 2008 site traffic stats: 9,922,623 hits, 791,515 pages and 164,135 visits from 129,710 unique sites, with about 35.7 million KBytes transferred over the month. A solid month, with traffic holding steady close to ten million hits.
Comex 2008 ran at Suntec City Convention Centre from 28th to 31st August. I hooted plenty, including Canon colour and black ink for my mom's MX700 printer, plus a D-Link DNS-323 and a Wall-E pickup for myself.
Kenny Chee of My Paper interviewed me about IT fairs in Singapore. My Paper, Singapore's first free Chinese newspaper, launched on 1 June 2006, is aimed at bilingual adults aged 20 to 40 who straddle Western and Chinese cultures.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.