In celebration of Singapore’s birthday, I uploaded a couple more photos I took just before we left for the last time in July.
Monday 09th August 2010
Monday 12th July 2010
Wednesday 16th June 2010
Singapore’s getting quite a lashing this morning, so my dad and I have camped out at the O’Brien’s sandwich bar at Jelita. Back when my school had its campus at Ulu Pandan, I’d go to Jelita all the time for Pizza Hut. Now it’s an Irish sandwich shop, go figure :)
UPDATE: Typical, I hit the Draft button instead of Publish, again! The timestamp for the photo was around 10am today.
Tuesday 15th June 2010
There was a discussion on Slashdot this morning about WiFi access at Starbucks in the States, so I added my own SG$0.02 about the free access here.
Saturday 29th May 2010
It got up to 3.12MB/s a few minutes ago, but my screenshot reflexes weren’t fast enough. Screenshot Reflexes sounds like a terrible spaghetti western.
Anyway the point is we don’t even have one of those expensive, super duper, ultra high speed connections here. More importantly what we do download doesn’t get counted towards a stupid monthly internet quota! Without download caps, the whole internet experience changes. There’s no bean counting. You don’t have to toss up whether to get that latest Cranky Geeks or skimp on getting just the CD release of a distro instead of a DVD.
It’s sad the likes of Comcast are starting to adopt this Aussie approach to the net. Say goodbye to online video streaming.
Thursday 27th May 2010
On Tuesday I announced on Twitter that I’d booked a seat for Steve Ballmer’s talk at Marina Sands celebrating 20 years of Microsoft in Singapore. At least, I thought I did until I got this message:
Due to overwhelming demand, we are unable to offer you a seat (-6).
Wednesday 26th May 2010
Today’s fun and utterly pointless observation is a Google Image Search for "Kuala Lumpur". The first result is a photo of… Singapore!
To lend some possibly needed perspective, that would be akin to having a photo of Melbourne appear if you typed "Sydney", or London if you typed "Dublin", or Sarah Palin if you entered "intelligence is sexy".
Tuesday 25th May 2010
I must admit a certain level of professional ignorance when it comes to cloud computing; much of my own commentary on the subject has been limited to security problems and my general anger with the way sites like Facebook have abused their users. It was refreshing to see some good stuff :).
