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I spoke about WorPress Plugin Development with PHP on Wednesday, 12th December 2007 at the Singapore PHP User Group, December 2007 meetup.

That is the first time I am speaking publicly and hence I was quite nervous and spoke very fast.

Finally, it is released!

Hello,

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack1 has been officially released!

What can you expect in Service Pack 1?

Yesterday marked the 7th birthday of phpBB and finally the team announced the release date of the long awaited phpBB3. It will be released on the 14th December 2007 01:00 (GMT +8) or 13th December 2007 17:00 (GMT).

I think it is a little too late, I have switched from phpBB2 to SMF 1.1 and now I am a happy user of SMF.

Petrol prices have been going up a lot lately. Currently 98-Octane rating petrol cost about S$ 2.080 for 1 litre.

Lets put this in another perspective:
– 1 litre of petrol cost about S$2.08
– 1 can of coke (330ml) cost about S$1.20 (coffeeshop price)

I got only 2 papers this semester despite taking 4 modules (20 MCs). Out of these 2 papers, 1 of them is open book and partially it is based on common sense (CS3253) and hence I did not spend much time studying it.

I spent exactly 1 week studying CS2105 because the fucking workload is so heavy, fuck loads of stuffs to memorize, closed book exams and not even a single fucking help sheet is allowed (last semester, help sheet is allowed). CS2105 is a computer network module and of course it covers the 5 layers of network. I am fine with that, but I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA WHY THE FUCK DO WE NEED TO KNOW signal calculations/details, WE ARE COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS AND NOT ENGINEERS. Please wake up your idea.

Vivendi and Activision to Create Activision Blizzard – World’s Largest, Most Profitable Pure-Play Video Game Publisher

SANTA MONICA, Calif. & PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Activision, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI – News) and Vivendi (Euronext Paris: VIV) today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to combine Vivendi Games, Vivendi’s interactive entertainment business — which includes Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft, the world’s #1 multi-player online role-playing game franchise — with Activision, creating the world’s largest pure-play online and console game publisher. The new company, Activision Blizzard, is expected to have approximately $3.8 billion in pro forma combined calendar 2007 revenues and the highest operating margins of any major third-party video game publisher. On closing of the transaction, Activision will be renamed Activision Blizzard and will continue to operate as a public company traded on NASDAQ under the ticker ATVI.

I have ordered my copy of WordPress for Dummies over at Amazon (including shipping) instead of getting it at my local bookstores because it is cheaper!

Amazon.com
Book: US$16.49
Shipping: US$9.98
Total: US$26.47
Total: S$38.38 (US$26.47 x 1.45)

Since I have moved over to my own server which is located in my own country (Singapore), I would like to know the load time for this site from my users, just give a rough estimate will do. The poll is located on the right hand side menu.

Thanks =)