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This Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars demo offers a sample of the full game's single-player content, including an interactive tutorial, two early missions from the GDI campaign, and one 1-versus-1 skirmish map against a computer-controlled Nod army.
Wishing all Chinese a Happy Chinese New Year 2007, the year of the pig, the last animal of the zodiac. I've been busy lately; my parents and brother holidayed in Shenzhen while I stayed in Singapore to mind the household.
We celebrated our third Valentine's Day together. I gave her a heart-shaped chocolate ice cream cake from Swensen's and a bouquet of six pink roses, bought from a reliable HardwareZone reseller, Flora De Petals.
For those who don't know, I run another blog dedicated to my plugin development, which also serves as a live demonstration of my WordPress plugins. Do drop by to see them in action.
I really like this quote. When the UK proposed road pricing, more than a million people signed an online petition. When it was first introduced in Singapore, more than a million people simply sucked their thumbs.
I watched Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, my first R21-rated film, running roughly two hours and 45 minutes. The front part was a little draggy, but overall it was decent, with an interesting storyline and a thoroughly bizarre ending.
This site turns five on 24th March 2007, which is also my birthday. For over four years I've run it on my allowance, with my mom occasionally paying for hosting. I'll never run ads despite my traffic.
It's human nature to blame others rather than investigate the real problem. Johor's Chief Minister has cited land reclamation by neighbouring Singapore as a cause of the recent massive flooding, in which 17 people died and 100,000 were evacuated.
As you know, Thailand's relationship with Singapore has hit an all-time low, especially over the Shin Corp affair, Thaksin's visit and Thailand's 1-2 football loss yesterday. Making matters worse, Mahathir has now added fuel to the already burning fire.
A quick snapshot of my site's standings: ranked 21,914 on Alexa, 6,203 on Technorati, with a Google PageRank of 5 for lesterchan.net and 6 for my PHP programming portfolio page. Steady numbers I'm quite pleased with for now.
These past few days, Singapore's weather has been wonderfully cool and windy, and I simply love it. I barely feel the usual heat at all, a rare and welcome respite from our typically humid, sweltering tropical climate.
I just realised I can get Microsoft Vista free from my school, and I'm downloading it now. A shame it comes on five CDs rather than one DVD. Still deciding whether to install it on my desktop or laptop.
Microsoft Windows Vista should be in retail stores today, and Microsoft has revamped its Vista homepage. I tried Vista and it lags my four-year-old Pentium 4 3.2GHz with ATI X800 graphics, so I'll only get it when I upgrade.
Check out these listings of the worst domain names ever registered: Top 10 Worst Domain Names, plus 20 More Unfortunate Domain Names. Some are unintentionally hilarious once you read the run-together words the wrong way. Worth a good laugh.
Alongside today's release of WordPress 2.1, I've updated the following plugins for it. Most work only on WordPress 2.1 and will break on 2.0.x; if you still need a 2.0.x version for any reason, the download link is included below.
So far I'm very satisfied with Dreamhost's customer support. I filed three support tickets this week, with the fastest reply within 15 minutes and the slowest within 24 hours. The site went down this evening too.
If you can see this announcement, the site has successfully moved to its new host, Dreamhost. I signed a two-year contract for US$100.80, so hopefully they don't let me down. Load time is noticeably slower for me now.
After over a month of holidays, semester 2 of academic year 2006/2007 finally started today. I must work extra hard to pull my crappy 3.18 GPA up to maybe 3.2 or 3.3, and hopefully above 3.5 before I graduate.
I posted my dream PC specs back in August 2006, and some now look unrealistic, so I've been researching. The Intel Core 2 Quad heading mainstream this year is codenamed Kentsfield, essentially two dual-core dies on one package.
These are the modules I'm taking in my first year, second semester: Principles of Economics, Financial Accounting, Computing and Society, Fundamentals of Information Systems, and Enterprise Systems Development. A solid, varied load to push through the term.
I went to Sim Lim Square today to buy my mom's accounting server. As always, I bought from Fuwell, whose service from Kelvin Siah I love. It's built around an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600.
I've released updates to four of my WordPress plugins: WP-Polls 2.13, WP-PostRatings 1.05, WP-Stats 2.06 and WP-UserOnline 2.06. All four are now internationalised, so you can easily localise them by translating the included .po file into your own language.