Keeping up with the Lims
I used to spend a lot of money as an early adopter of new toys that come along. I was quite at the forefront: the early 3D graphic accelerators just before the mid 90s, optical drives from 1995, video imaging
Category: Toys & Technology
Ling’s new toy
Truth to tell, I think one or two of our friends are a bad influence on Ling. How so? Well, she was inspired by the steam vacuum cleaner that our small group friend Ann has. So on Monday evening Ling
Lego bricks
30 years ago while the three of us were growing up at our old place at Sembawang Hill Estate, we had a lot of Lego bricks. And we had huge tubs and boxes of those things. They must have cost
Windows 7
One of the best things about having more than a few notebooks and PCs at home is that one of the machines get designated as the throwaway toy and you can really try all sorts of stuff on it. And
Toys and babies
Matt was asking about a new toy I picked up. But ah no; this isn’t about toys for the coming baby.:) Ling has started making regular trips to Thomson Medical Center and in about five months will be delivering there.
Home plugged II
Technologies have certainly changed. These days, Internet service packages come bundled with everything you need to setup a home network. The hardware is typically even multifunctional: it’s a cable modem + router + wireless capable all in one. Quite a
Home plugged I
It’s interesting to recollect my experiences “getting connected” over the years, and see how technologies have changed since then. I first got ‘online’ as an undergraduate freshman in NTU in 1992, receiving my first email account then. It was an
Red pill, blue pill
Several months ago I wrote a short entry about the high-definition ‘war’ waged between the two competing standards, HD DVD and blu-ray. Now, one of the battlegrounds between both standards was the support each format had from major movie studios.
Year In Review – 2008
It’s coming to the end of the year again. Towards the end of each year, I’d sit back and reflect on some of the key events and decisions made in the past year or so. It’s a pretty interesting exercise
Echoing: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Since I haven’t been blogging much, here’s an echo of a game review for the other blog I write for.:) Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Naughty Dog as a game development studio has been around for more than two decades now since
Apples, PCs, and a Girl in between
Truth to tell, one of the ongoing discussions that gives me the laughs is the Apples vs PCs’war’.:) Now, that in itself has a bit of a history, and like a few of my other stories here, there was a
A Classical Revival: Part II
In the old days in the mid to late 90s when we were still using portable CD players, I had a CD wallet alongside the player in my haversack. I was commuting from Yio Chu Kang station where home was
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