Month: March 2008

Express Papermache’d

Posted on Monday March 31, 2008 in Interest., Web.

This is almost funny. I know it is not to the Legal department of the express company. If one can build usable furniture from packing material and set up a .com website to publicise it, I am sure he can do more with his talent.

But I don’t care what agreement the shipper & shipping company may have, if its a box that’s shipped to me, I consider it my property. Because if they do think they still own the box after the delivery has been made, they’d better get over here and pick them up or I’m sending them the bill for expenses and labor used to properly dispose of their boxes. — shotfeel / Slashdot
It made me spurt my coffee.

Twitter thy thumbs

Posted on Sunday March 30, 2008 in Web.

When Jasmin mentioned Twitter, (I will shamelessly admit that) I went “huh?” I may spend unnecessary chunks of time on the web, I really had no idea what it meant.

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

140 characters for the insatiable need to type and to view the typed. For those who are as clueless as I am, this may help.

This is not for you if you’re already avoiding Facebook because of your friends’ status updates. I, on the other hand, enjoy the updates. They make great conversation pieces when you meet up for coffee.

Incidentally, if you are using WordPress and you don’t read the dashboard news (like me), WP2.5 is out.

Big blue wheel

Posted on Friday March 28, 2008 in Interest., Photography.

What would you do if you’re crawling in traffic? I took pictures with my trusty Siemens S65 (hurray for 1MP phone cameras!). It was fun.

I think the traffic-induced-photo session beats the ‘flying experience’ onboard the Flyer, with more soil that I care to view for S$30.

SgFlyer SgFlyer

Hope the motorist(s) involved in the accident are alright.

Take the leap

Posted on Sunday March 23, 2008 in Entertainment.

A quick google shows that alot of people have their opinions blogged about the local production, The Leap Years. I like this. Anyway I shall not pracrit it further.

Being sentimental (oh yes, it happens), I dated a close friend to watch the move on her birthday yesterday. It was so apt, especially when it’s a movie that almost dedicated itself to a birthdate. I tried very hard to suppress the usual critical self which will be looking for inconsistencies. Yes there are quite a handful for a show that has 100mins to patch the holes. Once I overcame that, I found myself trying to remember the occasional beautiful lines. The literary sparks is perhaps the only saving grace.

To be really honest, the movie is not engaging enough to disable my automatic cinema-seat-rejection mechanism. My fidgeting did not help the poor soul who was crying her eyes out.

So the wind whispers, fallen like your letters
on the beaming kallang river
my faith, teeters.

Whois if you dare

Posted on Sunday March 2, 2008 in Web.

So, one day you feel like buying a new domain. You go tripping to Network Solutions to check for availability and yay it’s available! Knowing that your domain name is so unique (i.e. www.ohsouniqueyoucannotbeat.com), you decided to take a couple of days to check out the various hosting packages available. Just when you’ve decided on one reasonable package, you are greeted with the dreaded – www.ohsouniqueyoucannotbeat.com is no longer available. In fact it was registered the same day you were reassured by Network Solutions.

Once you whois it, you lose the right to purchase it at sub USD10. Cost of my lesson? USD34.99.

Moral of story: Do not check for availability unless you want to register it immediately. Sucks, I know. Read more here and here.