The Longest Day

Every year on this day, Charles M. Schulz's comic strip is dedicated to the veterans of D-Day when 160,000 Allied troops crossed the En...

Scarlet Sky Shots

We were taking a post-dinner stroll at Marina Barrage last Saturday when we saw a portion of the sky light up. The sky literally brightened ...

2010

Hello! It's been a while since anything was posted here so the purpose of this entry is to revive this relatively dormant blog. Happy Ne...

Calling All Dawns / Baba Yetu x 12!

Baba Yetu is the name of the song that is played when one first starts the popular computer game  Civilization IV . The music was so good th...

ScanGauge II Automative Computer On A Yaris / Fuel Economy

Normally in any car, you'll be able to see how the car is doing by looking at the dashboard. For example, you can see the speed of the c...

Unitasking and the Kindle

Click here for my previous Kindle 2 entry to find out how you can own one in Singapore. 24 Feb 2010 Update: Today's Digital Life has ano...

Credit Card Purchase Verification / Liability

I recently got a bill for my HSBC credit card and it included an annual fee charge of more than a hundred dollars. So I called them up to a...

GMail Updated!

Those were fun times on the Internets. When Google announced in March 2004 that it was giving out 1000mb of free email to users, it changed...

Amazon Kindle 2 In Singapore

Updated 4 August 2010. The Kindle 3 is now on sale. I've a new blog entry up to focus on this latest model. Updated 10 July 2010. I...

Reservist Duty

I'm on a three-week tour of reservist duty again; it's quite similar to what I did in March . The exercise is quite disruptive espec...