Losing Weight
I began my weight-loss goal after getting the Nike + iPod Sport Kit with SwitchEasy Runaway. In October 2010 I weighed 89kg, aiming for 75kg by Chinese New Year. I'm now at 78kg, three to go with two weeks left!
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WC3 HTML5 Logo
I think the new HTML5 logo looks great, and I'll probably get the t-shirt! It stands strong and true, resilient and universal as the markup you write, a pennant for progress that certainly doesn't use tables for layout.
Apple Magic Trackpad
Bought the Magic Trackpad at iStudio in Changi Airport Terminal 3 before flying to Jakarta. Apple Singapore ran a Chinese New Year sale that day, but with no 7% airport tax the price was about the same, S$91.59.
How Facebook Ships Code
An interesting blog post by yeeguy, How Facebook Ships Code, and mig33 shares some of these traits. Among the highlights: all engineers go through a four-to-six-week boot camp learning the system by fixing bugs and attending lectures from senior staff.
SingTel Bridge Data Roaming
Li Xiang and I head to Jakarta tomorrow to visit my secondary school friend Sugih and meet Pei Jun. My iPhone 4 is a paperweight overseas thanks to pricey data roaming, so I'm finally trying SingTel's Bridge DataRoam Unlimited.
A.C. Ryan Announces Playon!HD2 And Playon!HD Mini2
A.C. Ryan has announced the Playon!HD2 and Playon!HD Mini2, just after I got my Playon!HD back in November 2010, argh! I love the new gigabit wired networking, since the original's 10/100Mbps made transferring files over my gigabit LAN painfully slow.
Verizon’s iPhone 4 Summary
Verizon Wireless announced last night that it too will sell the iPhone 4 in the US. Unlike the AT&T and most worldwide units, this is a CDMA version rather than GSM, with three slight differences in its metal band.
Apple One-Day Chinese New Year Sale
Apple is holding a one-day Chinese New Year sale this Friday, 14th January. They run it yearly; instead of America's Black Friday, Singapore gets a red one. I skipped 2010 but bought a Belkin Auto Charger in 2009.
Mac App Store
The Mac App Store is live, bundled with the OS X 10.6.6 update, where US$4.99 is the new US$0.99. I haven't bought a paid app there since I get software directly from the makers, fairly useless to me.
Moved To Vodien
If you're reading this, the DNS resolved correctly: I've moved the site from my dedicated server at Frro to a VPS at Vodien. I did it to play with more Linux without risking downtime for other sites.
Looking Back 2010
Last year in Looking Back 2009 I said I wanted a job, and I got one as a Web Engineer at mig33, starting 1st February 2010, nearly a year now. I'll spend this New Year's Eve in the cinema again.
Merry Christmas 2010
Wishing all my readers and visitors a Merry Christmas, and may you receive lots of gadgets in the years to come! My top two Christmas songs remain My Only Wish (This Year) by Britney Spears and Wham's Last Christmas.
Konnext SynCharger
With more gadgets come messy wires and crowded power sockets. I'd eyed Bluelounge's Refresh station for days but it's hard to find here, stocked only at EpiCentre Ion Orchard, so I settled on the Konnext SynCharger.
lesterchan.net Will Be Offline For A Few Hours
Update: we're back after about three hours of downtime. The site will be offline for a few hours between 10pm on 18th December and 6am on 19th December 2010 (GMT+8) while the co-location server rack is relocated.
HTC 7 Mozart
Got the HTC 7 Mozart from Mobile Square for S$670 without contract. After trading in my Nokia N82 and my mom's iPhone 3G, I paid just S$260. Now I own every major mobile OS except BlackBerry!
Geek Bag + Working Bag
Inspired by DK, I'm finally posting my geek bag over two years later. It rides to work inside my Crumpler Moderate Embarrassment. Contents include two 8GB USB drives, a 1TB WD My Passport and some Sanyo Eneloops.
Uncharted Waters Online Officially Launched
Hoist the sails: Uncharted Waters Online, the historical massively multiplayer online role-playing game, officially launched today in Singapore. It's distributed by Netmarble, the game portal from CJ Internet, a global entertainment company.
Sony Ericsson Fitness Experience Pack
Looks like a good alternative to Apple's sixth-gen iPod nano. The Sony Ericsson Fitness Experience Pack targets sports enthusiasts, bundling the LiveView display, the SportyPal Pro sport application for it, and a carrying case for your phone, ideal for exercising.
mig33 Android Client
I've spent the past few months building the mig33 Android client with colleagues, tasked with styling the native UI in Java and XML plus the HTML5/CSS3 webpages. It's tedious, but the first beta is finally ready for download!
Google Nexus S & Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Officially Announced
Google has officially announced the Nexus S and Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Co-developed by Google and Samsung, the Nexus S pairs the latest Android with a 1GHz Hummingbird processor and 16GB of memory, making it one of the fastest phones around.
Nokia E72 (White Edition)
The earliest Christmas party goes to Nokia! At their media party at Serenity, VivoCity, I won a Nokia E72 White Edition in the lucky draw, since most journalists left early, leaving about fifteen of us competing for ten prizes.
Moonchild: Animated Short Film
Moonchild, an animated short film by Singapore's Stick and Balloon, needs donations to finish its final production leg. A shy fiddler named Niki meets a lovely moon-spirit and her strange musical band, and nervously tries to impress her.