Today I travelled back in time

I must have stepped into a time warp today while entering Bugis MRT station. I felt a weird sense of deja vu and realised I had travelled back in time a couple of months to April.
The large LCD display on the train platform greeted me with a familiar movie trailer I knew I’ve seen somewhere. [...]

Transforming Transformers

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This Friday the above movie will open in Singapore cinemas island wide. And if you’re like me, you’d be all excited about it. Even after all these fancy trailers it still amazes me how they managed to make a real-life movie of the Transformers.
And if you like a bit of nostalgia, check out the video [...]

Today I turn 27

My lovely colleagues gave me a cupcake, a card, and a present. So nice of them. The technology team bought me lunch too. I don’t understand why people like to take birthdays off, there’s so much fun in the office!

Turning a lifehack into an Web 2.0 app

One of my favourite lifehacks ever is by Marc and Angel called “Turn Google into Napster 2000“. Basically they’ve used Google’s “web command line” to narrow down and search specifically for .mp3 files from a certain artist or by song name. An example they gave was:
-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) [...]

iX 2007: Now I’m full of AIR

Since attending the iX 2007 conference’s academic forum at SMU yesterday, I’ve been full of AIR. Adobe Integrated Runtime that is. That was basically the only thing new I got from the conference, all this talk about new/social media is nice, but I’m a sucker for new and cool tech.
AIR, according to Adobe’s web site, [...]

The army lost my mobile phone! Almost

Ever since the army decided to ban the use of mobile phones with camera’s from army camps, every time I go to a camp I have to live without digital communication for the duration of my visit, including today’s IPPT (physical fitness) test.
I never really minded it really… until today when the lost my $700 [...]

Do we still need out of office messages?

Many of my clients and colleagues, based out of Singapore, often take on regional roles which requires them to travel a lot. This requirement places them on planes and hotel rooms in neighbouring countries very often, and every time the leave, the activate the dreaded triple “O” (aka Out of office) auto reply email.
After years [...]

How will marketing work in this media future?

I like this rendition of the future. Especially the part when copyright becomes illegal and there are no such things as ads. Maybe in the future, marketing will be about content creation and not controlled message dissemination.
Imagine this, instead of a series of TV commercials, companies will spend the money to produce a feature film.
Instead [...]

The japanese game show that made my day

This so doesn’t belong on my blog. But want to know how to make every corner of your office laugh? Send them this clip!

Virtualise your Mac today

VMware seems to be taking the competition with Parallels pretty seriously. I wonder if there’s a difference between Unity and Coherence?
BTW, the pre-order of VMware Fusion is out today with a discounted price of US$39.99! Yay!
GA is expected in August 2007. That’s what they say.
(VMware is a Hill & Knowlton client)