While doing (ultimately wholly unproductive) research for my Extended Essay I came across this exceptionally scathing book review by John Clute that outlines what he feels are the major failings of Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake. (The edition featured in that Amazon link, by the way, is beautifully typeset.)
In particular, one the arguments he [...]
The Far Eastern Economic Review, that is. Apparently, the reputable journal has been banned in sunny (oops, hazy) Singapore for an article that has drew the ire of the government, or, rather, two of the most prominent and powerful party members of the PAP.
This article in question was written on the chief political adversary of [...]
I could disable its tab bar overflow ‘feature’, which as of the latest stable release is sub-par, anyways. The unreleased (in final form, at least) Firefox 2.0 already has such an option, albeit well-hidden, so I can’t see why its OSX-native cousin should be so sorely deprived.
Well, I guess I’ve gotten too used to Opera [...]
… I’ve finally figured them out.
This post will bear witness to what is probably the most personal material I’ve ever published online. Even so, it’s gone through the censors and sanitization - I don’t really take to handing out details of my private life so casually. I might be entirely wrong in my evaluation, or [...]
Watching Click (great show BTW) set me thinking about the correlation of time, existence and choice. The main character (masterfully portrayed by Adam Sandler) gets transported through time by the fast-forwarding feature of his magical universal remote control. Well, not him exactly, but his soul. The body he inhabits each time time gets slowed back [...]
Yet again my passion for weblogging has run dry and I can’t afford a pit stop due to a multitude of tests this week. So I shall just fill yet another post with mindless ramblings. I mean, there is definitely blog-worthy material floating around my head - I think if I documented all the questions [...]
As any Singaporean who reads the news knows, The Straits Times paper-and-ink newspaper has launched some kinda online community called STOMP - of course, it’s named in a very Singaporean fashion: an acronym. I appreciate the effort the newspaper has put into empowering readers with knowledge and information via the Internet, and providing them a [...]
One of my pet peeves is not being able to access a website by typing ‘http://website.com/’ in the address bar.
Check out Singnet’s website. Remove the ‘www.’, and it magically becomes inaccessible. This is not only inconvenient for users, it’s also inexcusable from an ISP such as Singnet - aren’t they supposed to be Internet experts? [...]
This new ‘Web on a hard drive’ software seems to be garnering its fair shair of hype. While I tend towards supporting such a large-scale, innovative application of web caching, I doubt this technology will prove itself as useful as what the article makes it out to be.
“It’s kind of surprising that nobody else has [...]
On the subject of tagging…
I’ve noticed that most, if not all instant messenger protocols (at least the ones I use: MSN, Skype, GTalk and by extension Jabber) have a really shitty, outdated, cumbersome and inflexible way of organizing contacts: ‘groups’, or folders. Google Talk doesn’t even have that functionality.
Will someone please implement contact tagging? I [...]
