Somehow, after reading about Steve Johnson’s six-hour ordeal with the iPod, I lost my entire faith in technology’s promise to rescue mankind from all its miseries. If an alleged Internet critic with a respectable organisation like Chicago Tribune can struggle with an idiot-proof product, what hope does the hapless man in the street have? But… Read More »
Plenty. IT folks are a passionate lot who gets agitated over an Apple, excited about anything big, powerful and sexy, and offended by any remote reference to a four-letter word (we mean “geek”, or “nerd”, mind you). And yes, IT folks do have a strange fascination with four-letter words. From BIOS to SCSI to EULA,… Read More »
For Valentine, a pagan priest who lived during the grotesque Roman persecution against Christians, love was more than the mushy stuff we think of today. It was above sentimental feelings or infatuation. It was deeper than sexual attraction or physical desire. It is not based on circumstance, climate, clothes, character or come-ons. It is a… Read More »
In case you’ve downloaded Google Desktop 3 beta, here’s an article at ZDNet about a newly-added feature that may pose “serious privacy implications“. Apparently, the new version allows users to search for files across multiple computers, by storing copies of the user’s documents on Google’s servers. So if the servers are compromised by hackers, there… Read More »
Seems to me that since the bird flu episode, chickens have been on the short end of the stick. Over the weekend, as part of a company excursion, I visited the Zoobic Safari in Subic Bay Freeport Zone and was “treated” to a tiger-feeding session using — you guessed it! — a live chicken. Essentially,… Read More »
The only bar in Singapore that should remain open throughout Chinese New Year is probably Long Bar at Raffles Hotel. This is the birth place of the over-rated and over-priced Singapore Sling. At almost S$20 a pop (if I recalled correctly), this stuff is mostly just juice and, worse of all, mass produced – the… Read More »