Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
The new category of devices – Smart Speakers – seems pretty much like a natural amalgamation of several technologies that have surfaced over the last decade or two: voice recognition, natural language processing, and integrated services. Oddly, most of the
We actually wrote a series of posts 11 years ago during our visit to Rawa Island in 2007, but all but two (here and here) of those posts were lost when I migrated host servers around 2009-ish. Over the last
Between preparing for our Nov 2006 wedding and also looking for/buying/renovating/getting ready/moving into our first home @ The Rivervale, I think the both of us were pretty much not planning where we’d go for our honeymoon during the last quarter
Our blog has includes posts on the places we’ve been to, but it was only from the Bali 2008 vacation ten years ago when I got into the habit of really writing increasingly copious notes on our travels – with
A realization dawned while working on the blog yesterday to make it fully https compliant. The number of php code tweaks I’d made in the last year had basically somewhat broken the theme’s baseline that it no longer correctly recognized
My host server sent an advisory several days ago informing of Google’s decision to mark non-HTTPS websites as “not secure”. So, as host server providers, they were offering free SSL for their domain users. There’s nothing on our web site
Continuing from my last post about the new Acer Swift 3, here’s my fourth and 2018 edition of a long running series on notebooks: with the previous editions in 2008, 2012 and 2016. Things move so quickly in the technological
The Dell XPS 13 that I bought 3.5 years ago experienced a critical component failure 6 months ago in January this year – right at about the three year mark. Specifically, its battery could no longer be detected, and the
Like many Singaporean families, we do about two family vacations a year that coincide with the longer school holiday breaks in June and December, and routinely have to suffer the higher peak period prices that go along with it. And
I did a lot of HDR compositions while I was still using the Nikon D300 ten years ago. And with a good deal of luck and preparation, pictures like these were quite possible: HDR shots though are by their very
There were three lenses – the FE 24-105mm f4.0, FE 16-35mm f4.0 and the adapted Tamron 70-200mm f2.8 – accompanying the Sony A73 on its maiden overseas outing: and I ended up using just two lenses: and about 99% of
The last post in our Bali 2018 travelogue! Right after we landed in Singapore last weekend, three of us – the kids and myself – all fell sick with largely similar ailments: coughing and runny nose – and in my
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