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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A thought before bed: have you counted the monitors, televisions and computers in your household? For my family of four in a four-room HDB flat, my room alone holds one LCD TV, two LCD monitors and a desktop.
I'm a sucker for changelogs, documenting almost every change to my WordPress plugins, and I hope to bring that habit to this site too. It's been a month since lesterchan.net 3.0 launched, and along the way I've fixed many things.
I've used Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit for over a month now and I'm quite comfortable with it. Aside from the GUI, there's little change from Windows XP, but it supports DirectX 10. Just one Blue Screen so far.
My June 2008 site traffic stats: 7,080,355 hits, 623,724 pages and 152,955 visits from 102,765 unique sites, with about 23.3 million KBytes transferred over the month. A quieter month, though traffic still comfortably topped seven million hits.
I spoke on Developing Plugins for WordPress at the Singapore PHP User Group's June 2008 meetup on Wednesday, 18th June. It was my second time speaking there, after the December 2007 meetup covering the same topic.
OMFG! Blizzard has finally announced Diablo III. Two decades have passed since the demonic Prime Evils, Diablo, Mephisto and Baal, rampaged across Sanctuary to enslave humanity. For those who faced them directly, the memory of that horror still lingers vividly.
I really don't think this is a good idea. Lawyers and analysts say ICANN's vote to allow any word as a top-level domain will cause URL chaos. Whenever ICANN needs money, they'll launch new TLDs companies must buy.
I caught Wanted at GV VivoCity last night, a 109-minute film. It's pretty good, especially the visual effects, with plenty of bullet time and slow motion that I personally love. There's a nice twist near the end.
The Jason Bourne trilogy is one of the greatest of all time, easily on par with Lord of the Rings, so I can't wait for the fourth film. Producer Marshall told IESB that Bourne 4 will absolutely happen.
Gizmodo visited LEGO and wrote up everything you ever wanted to know. One gem: why are there always leftover pieces after building a castle set? Partly because some pieces are simply too small and light to matter much.
This Friday, 27th June 2008, will be Bill Gates' last day as a full-time Microsoft employee. Afterwards he'll focus on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's work in health, vaccines and education, though he remains chairman as the largest shareholder.
This article, from four days ago on Nokia Conversations, is worth a read. As they put it, now that it's officially launched, the Nokia E71 takes the crown as the most leaked product they've ever seen at Nokia.
After a month of weekends in my mystery shopper part-time job, it's time to blog and rant about it. Mystery shopping may sound nice, interesting and unique, which I'd have agreed at first, but totally disagree with now.
BBC News interviewed Bill Gates as he prepares to leave full-time work at Microsoft. Most of our competitors were very poorly run, he tells Fiona Bruce for The Money Programme; they didn't understand how to combine business and engineering expertise.
My mom just bought a new Samsung RT58EAMT refrigerator for the house, costing about S$915. Its 580-litre gross capacity dwarfs our previous Sanyo SR-37ZB. Still, no single fridge is ever big enough for all of my mom's baking supplies.