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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.
The Nokia N82 is now out in Singapore. Mobile Square is selling it for S$988 and iPOSH for S$968, while the telcos aren't carrying it yet. More details are over on the Nokia Asia site for anyone keen.
If you can read this, the host move is complete and the site now resides on my own server, FRRO, housed by IDC Services. It's a Dell PowerEdge 860 with a dual-core Intel Xeon 3050 at 2.13GHz.
DreamHost has been frustrating me lately, with users complaining that plugins downloaded here are corrupted because the connection drops before the file finishes. The site's load time has also worsened, so I'm moving hosts yet again to fix these problems.
Lidija from BlogWell interviewed Lisa Sabin-Wilson, author of WordPress For Dummies, and Lisa kindly mentioned me. As she put it, Lester Chan is a student who uses his WordPress plugins to get through school. Thank you, Lisa!
I've changed all the plugin download links on my Programming Portfolio page to point to the official WordPress Plugins Repository instead of my own site, since many users struggle to download from here because DreamHost has been so unreliable lately.
Phew, I submitted my CS3214 on Friday at 3pm after camping in school for two days to rush it, following some hiccups last week. My hopes of an A- are dashed, but hopefully a B+.
Nokia has unveiled the N82, billed as what cameras have become: a leading-edge connected camera, navigation device and multimedia computer in one. Announced 14th November 2007 from Espoo, it's optimised for photography, navigation and internet connectivity in a single handset.
These official Nokia N82 press photos definitely look better than the earlier leaked shots. You can see them here, with the official announcement now just 18 more hours away from the time of this post. The wait is nearly over.
This isn't an advert; it's my mom's company. I'm using my traffic to help search engines crawl First Food Industries Pte Ltd. For the record, my mom is one of two agents distributing Glico products in Singapore.
Happy 23rd birthday, my dear! This is the fifth birthday I've celebrated with you. I didn't do or buy anything this year as I'm buried in CS3214, but I promise to make it up after my exams.
The Nokia N82 goes on sale around January 2008, with the announcement expected next Tuesday or Wednesday and a recommended retail price of S$998. To recap the specs: 112 by 50.2 by 17.3mm, 120g, and a 2.4-inch QVGA 16-million-colour display.
Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that makes browsing more efficient than ever. Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated Google search and simplified privacy controls to help you cover your tracks.
Microsoft has enabled @live.xx signups, so grab yours now, whether a local domain like @live.co.uk or @live.com itself. Confirmed available aliases so far span many countries, including Argentina, Australia, Austria and Belgium, with more domains expected to follow.
Woot, I've applied! The School of Computing is offering a new 4-MC Facebook Programming module next semester, CS3216: Software Development on Evolving Platforms. It's a chance to be part of this new global internet phenomenon.
Seriously, what is wrong with Singapore? Over ten people have offered to pay a student hacker's fine, though he isn't even Singaporean. I don't care about his background; he committed a crime and should be responsible for it.
Epic and Midway have announced that Unreal Tournament 3 for PC has gone to gold master. Developed by the team behind the acclaimed Gears of War, UT3 is currently scheduled to ship in North America soon, much to fans' delight.
Live shots of the Nokia N82 have surfaced. Rumoured specs include quad-band GSM, UMTS and HSDPA, a 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss autofocus camera with real Xenon flash, VGA video capture, a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, built-in GPS, FM radio, TV-out and Wi-Fi.
Today, 24th October 2007, marks our third year together. We celebrated early instead of on the actual date, due to night class later. We had a buffet dinner at Carnivore at CHIJMES last Friday.
Nokia's N81 and N81 8GB multimedia computers are now shipping globally. Designed for the best in music and gaming, these devices promise mobile entertainment on the move, so boredom should be a thing of the past.
Microsoft has created MinWin, a stripped-down version of the Windows core that will sit at the heart of future Windows products, starting with Windows 7, due in 2010. The team has spent years reducing the dependencies tangled within Windows.