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I’ve been hosting my blog on Host Gator for more than a year already. And so far, I’m loving it.
Host Gator isn’t my first webhost. I started on Dreamhost in the beginning. But it was more of a nightmare than a dream. I lost count of the number of downtimes. I still remember there was [...]

I read with great disbelief that Mr Ong Ah Heng, a Singapore Member of Parliament, actually said this in Parliament during the budget debate.
“I know of one family who complain the cleaners in their precinct are lazy and too old. They don’t want local workers who are old, they want young foreign workers. To satisfy [...]

I guess for those who follow blogs closely, especially political blogs, you would have seen the blog entry by this fellow by the name Gopalan Nair claiming that some top level Minister suffers a massive heart attack. I will not go into details here because it is a distasteful hoax and would stain my blog. [...]

Here’s a interesting prank you can play on a sysadmin. Get a magician and “cut” an ethernet cable infront of him. Then magically joins it back.

Visit Isilon Systems to see how it was being done. Actually, I sort of guessed it already. Quite a common trick.

I was at Jurong point few days ago when I heard some familiar music coming out from one of the cubicle. It sound like from one of the iPhone game that I played recently. Interestingly, the game is call iBomber. I kid you not. Someone is playing iBomber while bombing the toilet bowl.
Which sort of [...]

The recent leap year bug in the PS3 reminds me of a basic programming exercise I did when I was in poly year 1. For the exercise, we were told to write an algorithm to validate dates. It is fairly straight forward for all the month except February because of the leap year.
The [...]

Remember Ok Go? The guys that bought us the Treadmill video on Youtube? Well, they are back with another amazing video. This time, it’s a Rube Goldberg machines. COOL!
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass

I was invited to attend the blogger preview of Not So Secret Lives: Crossroads. Not So Secret Lives (NSSL) tells a story of 2 youths, Trey and Jesse, and the friends around them using a blog. The story is fictional but the issues are real. Through their blog, Trey and Jesse will talk about often [...]

I was channel surfing last friday evening (Yes, I do watch TV every once in a while) when I found out that they were showing some live telecast of the S League Cup match between Tampines Rovers and Woodlands Wellington. Since there is nothing to watch on other channel, I decided to stay on that [...]

Two year ago, at this timing, Mas Selamat Kastari, leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah network, escaped from the Whitley Road Detention Centre. It was the largest manhunt in Singapore involving the police and army.

15 months later, he was re-captured in Johor, Malaysia. It was reported that Mas Selamat swam across the Straits of Johor [...]