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It's the first week of my new semester, year 2, semester 2; all going well, I'll graduate in year 4, semester 1, around the end of 2009. My modules this semester include Operating Systems and Business and Technical Communication.
Sun Microsystems will pay $1 billion to buy MySQL, the popular open-source database, about $800 million in cash for its privately held stock plus roughly $200 million in assumed options. MySQL CEO Marten Mickos will join Sun's senior team.
After some miscommunication, I finally collected my spectacles from Optics Today at Queensway Shopping Centre, which I've patronised since secondary school. The shop is owned by my uncle's old classmate, who always gives us very good prices on glasses.
Copied from Neowin: don't you love how Facebook has an app for everything? Don't you love wading through friends' profiles just to find their Wall? And don't you love how Facebook looks more and more like MySpace by the day?
I blog faster than Li Xiang, who's only finished Day 1, so here's my version of our Genting trip. Day 1, Wednesday 2nd January 2008: we reached Golden Mile Complex and took a Grassland bus, departing at 7.15am.
I'm back from a four-day, three-night Genting trip, my fourth visit. The first was in 1990 aged six, the second in 1993 aged nine, the third in 1997 aged thirteen, and now, eleven years on, I'm 24. How time flies.
My parents bought me a new Hitachi 32-inch LCD TV, the L32A01A, to replace my old 21-inch Toshiba CRT. We got it at Best Denki VivoCity for S$1,099, with a three-year warranty, HDMI cable and wall-mounting bracket included.
My 2007/2008 Semester 1 results: A- in Introduction to Computer Networks, A- in the Information Systems Development Project, B in Management of Information Systems and B+ in Introduction to Cybercrime. My CAP is 3.65. Sorry, CS3214 teammates, for our project.
I wish all my visitors, readers, commenters and plugin users a Merry Christmas, and I hope you've all received your presents! I got mine all the way from Hong Kong, an authentic Louis Vuitton card holder. Thanks, mom and dad!
Amazon's estimated shipping date proved quite accurate: the site said it would arrive on 18th December 2007, and it really did, in fact early that morning around 10am. I've already read through the entire WordPress For Dummies.
Some shots of the Nokia N96 leaked yesterday on a Chinese forum and were reposted on the Mobile Review forums. The form factor is exactly like the N81, but it runs S60 Feature Pack 2 and carries a 5-megapixel camera.
It's been a busy week, and a while since I posted about my life, so this is a long one. Among other things, Dinesh invited me to Nokia's year-end party, Nokia Christmas Crimes 2007, held at a venue in town.
I spoke on WordPress Plugin Development with PHP at the Singapore PHP User Group's December 2007 meetup on Wednesday, 12th December. It was my first time speaking publicly, so I was quite nervous and spoke very fast.
Finally, it's released! Today begins a new chapter in phpBB's history. After five years, over 200,000 lines of new and altered code, and many a long night, the phpBB Group is proud to announce the release of phpBB3, codenamed Olympus.
Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 1 has been officially released. Expect greater stability: using Dr. Watson crash data, they've fixed the top software issues for each application, and SP1 also improves overall performance. A worthwhile update.
Yesterday marked phpBB's seventh birthday, and the team finally announced the release date for the long-awaited phpBB3: 14th December 2007. Honestly it feels a little late for me, as I've already moved from phpBB2 to SMF 1.1 in the meantime.
Petrol prices keep climbing; 98-octane now costs about S$2.080 a litre. Put another way: a litre of petrol is S$2.08, while a 330ml can of Coke is S$1.20 at a coffeeshop, which works out far pricier per litre than petrol.
I have only two papers this semester despite taking four modules worth 20 MCs. One, CS3253, is open book and partly common sense, so I barely studied. I spent a full week on CS2105 because its workload is brutally heavy.
Vivendi and Activision are merging to create Activision Blizzard, billed as the world's largest and most profitable pure-play video game publisher. The two companies today announced a definitive agreement, bringing Blizzard's powerhouse franchises under the same roof as Activision's blockbusters.
I've ordered my copy of WordPress For Dummies from Amazon, including shipping, rather than a local bookstore, because it's cheaper. The book and postage came to about US$26.47, roughly S$38.38, versus S$39.90 plus 7% tax at Popular or PageOne.
Since moving to my own server here in Singapore, I'd like to know how quickly this site loads for you. Just give a rough estimate in the poll on the right-hand menu. Thanks for helping me gauge the improvement!
In 1400s England, a law allowed a man to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb, hence the rule of thumb. In Scotland a new game was ruled Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden, giving us GOLF.