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Google has launched its own phone, the Nexus One, though it leaked relentlessly beforehand, with photos, videos, specs and even the official site appearing early, arguably the most leaked phone of 2009. It's priced at US$529 without contract.
My December 2009 site traffic stats: 11,295,850 hits, 969,383 pages and 269,297 visits, from 174,310 unique sites. Daily hits averaged 364,382, peaking at 444,000-odd, totalling roughly 44.7 million KBytes transferred over the month. A solid finish to the year.
The INQ Chat 3G is a full-QWERTY version of the INQ Mini 3G, with a better 3.2MP camera and a noticeably faster processor. It measures 114.5 by 61 by 12.8mm and weighs 120 grams.
Today is the last day of 2009; ten years ago everyone fretted over the Y2K bug. I'll spend it inside GV VivoCity watching Alvin and the Chipmunks 2: The Squeakquel at 10:50pm. Last year I counted down in Taiwan.
WordPress 2.9 was released on 19th December 2009. Highlights include a global undo and Trash feature, so an accidentally deleted post or comment can be restored, finally doing away with those annoying are-you-sure confirmation messages we used to endure.
This is my second Christmas spent outside Singapore, the first being in Taiwan last year, and this time I'm in Hong Kong! I wish all my visitors and readers a very merry Christmas.
My 2009/2010 Semester 1 results: a C in Java to C++, an S in Legal Aspects of IT, A in CRM, A- in GEK1001, B+ in a city-state module and B- in another. CAP 3.79. Graduated with second-class honours!
Finally got my Canon 50D with the EF-S 18-55mm kit lens after waiting over a month for stock. Thanks to Glenn and Noel from Ogilvy PR for ordering it quickly. I took it for a field test afterwards.
SingTel and INQ are bringing the multi-tasking INQ Chat 3G to Singapore, an affordable social phone with a QWERTY keypad, Facebook and Twitter integration, plus SingTel's AMPed music service. It's offered at S$0 on a data plan.
After 18 and a half years of study, kindergarten through to three and a half years at university, I've finally finished! I went to Taiwan with Weiquan, Kelvin and Hong Jun for a seven-day, six-night graduation trip to celebrate.
I sat my final NUS exam last Thursday, 3rd December 2009, an evening paper from 5pm to 7pm, so technically I've graduated, pending results on 22nd December. Now I'm off to Taiwan, just as I was last year.
Packt Publishing sent me a complimentary copy of the Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook, which I'll review after my holidays. While the web has long been dominated by jQuery, scriptaculous and MooTools, Ext JS is another rich-interface JavaScript library.
Finally! Street View has landed on Google Maps in Singapore, something I've waited years for. Google's cars captured 360-degree street-level imagery along all public roads earlier this year, letting users view and explore the city right down at street level.
Li Xiang mentioned she'd never owned a Tamagotchi, so when my mom's friend visited from Japan on business, I asked him to grab one. Here it is, a Tamagotchi iD straight from Japan, as a belated birthday present!
My November 2009 site traffic stats: 11,232,870 hits, 907,322 pages and 252,818 visits from 158,597 unique sites. Daily hits averaged 374,429, peaking near 420,000, with about 43.6 million KBytes transferred over the month. Traffic stays remarkably steady.
Here are SingTel's Singnet Broadband promotions for Sitex 2009, available at SingTel retail shops since they're skipping a booth this year. Highlights include a free white 13-inch Apple MacBook worth S$1,588 with the 10Mbps Premium plan at S$88 monthly.
The light-up starts tonight at 7:30pm outside INDOCHINE at Wisma Atria. For SingTel ZoukOut 2009, the world's longest chain of light-sticks, roughly 10,000 red ones, will stretch from SingTel's ComCentre at Exeter Road through Orchard's malls all the way along.
LTA and Google have collaborated to help travellers reach destinations faster, making Singapore the first country with comprehensive, nationwide land travel-planning tools on Google Maps, spanning walking, public transit and traffic. A genuinely useful upgrade for getting around the island.
MacPadd makes aluminium mouse pads precision-cut from a single block, in two sizes: the 9x6-inch MacPadd at US$25 and the 9x9-inch MacPadd Pro at US$35. Sadly their shop won't ship to Singapore; distributors include MacWay in France and another overseas.
Brother today launches three new P-Touch labellers. My very first labeller was a Brother, back in the early 2000s, which I used to label my books and electrical switches. Brother International Singapore champions a customer-first approach.
This site runs on what's effectively a dedicated server, hosting only 30 other domains belonging to friends and family of Michael and me. It sits at M1 Connect, formerly Qala, with 1Mbps guaranteed and 10Mbps burstable bandwidth.
Today's CS4266 lecture was my last in NUS, marking my final day of school. Next comes a reading week, then two weeks of exams. As in previous semesters, I have four examinable modules, starting with SSA2211.