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Today I signed up for and installed Carbonite Online PC Backup on my HP notebook. This backup and recovery software is unlike the traditional backup-to-disk ones because it isn’t just software but a service as well and backup is done over to Internet to secured remote servers (that aren’t even mine).
I have to say that [...]

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Was at BlogOut 2007 on Thursday evening at the Geek Terminal. I wouldn’t dare say it was a blogger event, but more a geek convention with most in attendance happening to be bloggers.
Between song, food, and drink, serious discussion was had in breakout tables. The table I was at focused on the topic of corporate [...]

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This waterspout was seen from the office of Hill & Knowlton in Singapore. Quite an amazing sight which my colleagues have come to call “The finger of God”.

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The first line on SE roundtable’s blog post today about bookmarking reads:
Traditional bookmarking seems obsolete. Adding a bookmark to your browser, to many, is a practice that has been since seemingly replaced by newer methods — social bookmarking sites, if you will.
I am a long-time del.icio.us user and absolutely love social bookmarking, but to make [...]

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I don’t normally blog about my personal life, and especially not my Saturdays, but yesterday was amazingly serendipitous that I had to share. Almost like living the above movie (just without the romance).
Yesterday I made an old friend. I did it by…

showing up at her boyfriend’s house warming party;
accidentally making life difficult for her the [...]

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Singapore-based OSIM, known best for its massage chairs, has ordered YouTube to remove its copyright ads uploaded by users. My friend and fellow blogger I.Z. Reloaded has been sent a DMCA notice to remove the clip of an OSIM iGallop ad he uploaded in January 24, 2006.
I’ve used this particular uploaded ad in talks I’ve [...]

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Now which would give you a better understanding? Boring textbook diagram above or fascinating 3D animation with useful captions and clear voice over? Now I know why I didn’t do well in school. I was born too early!

Jokes aside, the juxtaposition of the two is making me re-think communication and its effectiveness in this new [...]

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Dear Blogger,
The National Heritage Board of Singapore invites you to make museums come alive online during International Museum Day 2007 (IMD 2007). There will be more than 80 special events over 10 days (18 – 27 May 2007) taking place in 24 museums around the island and you are invited to join the chatter online!
Report [...]

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Today I had lunch with Ian McKee, CEO of Vocanic, a Singapore-based marketing company that specialises in word of mouth marketing. Ian was my tipping point into the world of marketing. Sometime in early-2006 he introduced me to the book Buzzmarketing by Mark Hughes. If you’re into marketing, you’ll definitely want to read it.
So to [...]

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Online Videos by Veoh.com
The Ruckus MetroFlex DZ is basically a super-powered WiFi receiving antenna that plugs directly into your computer’s Ethernet port. The reason it’s called the MetroFlex is because it is designed as a CPE to “extend” metropolitan WiFi signals and bring them into the house or premise.
In this review I show how it [...]

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