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Street Fighter IV For Xbox 360
11 Feb 2009 Gaming

Street Fighter IV For Xbox 360

I pre-ordered Street Fighter IV for my Xbox 360 a couple of weeks ago at Mega Multimedia. The staff said pre-ordering then got me S$5 off the retail price, which seemed a fair deal.

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Nokia Comes With Music
10 Feb 2009 Event

Nokia Comes With Music

I was invited to a one-hour Nokia Comes With Music session at Nokia's Singapore office. The service arrives here soon, and the much-anticipated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic lands before month's end. Comes With Music bundles unlimited track downloads with the phone.

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Forward Hotmail To Gmail
5 Feb 2009 Web

Forward Hotmail To Gmail

Frustrated with the sluggish, forever-lagging Windows Live Hotmail? I certainly am. Here's a tutorial on forwarding your incoming Hotmail emails to Gmail: in your Hotmail inbox, go to Options, then More Options, and set up Mobile Alerts to enable forwarding.

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lc.sg
3 Feb 2009 Site

lc.sg

Time to mention the .sg domain I've owned for about two years, lc.sg. On the front end it's my personal RSS aggregator, while on the back end it doubles as my own URL shortener for quick, tidy links.

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lesterchan.net v3.30
2 Feb 2009 Site

lesterchan.net v3.30

Some minor updates bump lesterchan.net to version 3.30. I combined five JavaScript files, namely TW-Sack, ThickBox, DBX, the DBX key file and my own script, into one, and minified the CSS and JavaScript using YUI Compressor for faster loading.

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Lunar New Year 2009 Is Almost Over
31 Jan 2009 Blog

Lunar New Year 2009 Is Almost Over

In a blink, this year's Lunar New Year is almost over. Tomorrow is the seventh day, Ren Ri, or everybody's birthday. The celebration usually lasts fifteen days, and honestly it's starting to feel a little repetitive and boring.

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Happy Lunar New Year 2009
25 Jan 2009 Blog

Happy Lunar New Year 2009

It's my second week of school; tutorials begin next week and projects are already rolling in, so it'll get busy soon. That sums up my school life so far. I've also been adding JavaScript to my WordPress plugins lately.

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Year 3, Semester 2 Modules
10 Jan 2009 Blog

Year 3, Semester 2 Modules

These are the modules I'm taking this coming semester, starting 12th January 2009: Control, Audit and Security of IS, Service Systems, IT and Supply Chain Management, and Probability and Statistics. A solid four-module load to kick off the new term.

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First 100 .com Domains To Get Registered On The Internet
5 Jan 2009 Web

First 100 .com Domains To Get Registered On The Internet

The first .com domain ever registered was symbolics.com. Back then registering a domain cost far more than today's US$10 a year, so most names on the list belonged to multinational corporations. Surprisingly, Microsoft.com isn't among the earliest registrations.

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Site Traffic December 2008
3 Jan 2009 Site

Site Traffic December 2008

My December 2008 site traffic stats: 10,101,880 hits, 691,791 pages and 170,341 visits from 137,608 unique sites, with about 42.5 million KBytes transferred over the month. A strong close to the year, with traffic firmly in the millions.

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Back From Taiwan
2 Jan 2009 Blog

Back From Taiwan

I'm back from Taiwan! After the guided tour from 15th to 21st December 2008, we spent the remaining twelve days, until 1st January, free and easy. Rather than blog everything in detail, I'll let the pictures do the talking.

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Happy New Year 2009
1 Jan 2009 Blog

Happy New Year 2009

It's the first day of 2009, and I've just returned from the countdown in Taoyuan, Taiwan. It was fantastic, at a crisp 10 to 12 degrees Celsius. 2009 will be a big year, as I graduate at year's end.

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Merry Christmas 2008
25 Dec 2008 Blog

Merry Christmas 2008

Wishing all my readers a Merry Christmas 2008! I hope you all received the Christmas presents you were hoping for, and that you're spending the day with the people who matter most to you. Enjoy the festive season.

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2008/2009 Semester 1 Modules Grades
23 Dec 2008 Blog

2008/2009 Semester 1 Modules Grades

My 2008/2009 Semester 1 results: B+ in Technology Strategy and Management, B+ in Service Science, B+ in Strategic IS Planning, and B- in IS Project Management. My CAP came to 3.69, a steady if unspectacular showing for the semester.

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Away To Taiwan
14 Dec 2008 Blog

Away To Taiwan

I'll be away in Taiwan for 18 days, from Monday 15th December 2008 to Thursday 1st January 2009. My flight SQ878 departs on the 15th at 12.25pm, and I return on SQ877, reaching Singapore at 6.45pm on New Year's Day.

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