Access to free video changes people

Posted on January 30, 2008 by Benjamin Koe

“You can watch movies online, for free!” exclaimed a colleague over lunch.
At first, I thought she referred to downloading copies of DivX rips over BitTorrent from The Pirate Bay. I mean, if you’re going to watch a movie, it might as well be DVD quality with full 5.1 surround sound right?
Wrong.
As it turned out, she [...]

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Cooling a Mac in style

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Benjamin Koe

I’ve always told myself that I never needed those terribly ugly laptop cooling pads until I found this …… and until I got a laptop that heated up as badly as my MacBook Pro.
I found that I had to constantly keep my table top fan on or have the room’s air-conditioning on to keep my [...]

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I’m a telecommunication cyborg

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Benjamin Koe

I’m right now on a weekend break from my army reservist training which is two work weeks long. The Singapore army doesn’t let me bring a mobile phone with a camera into the training camp so I have to live with a 3G-less, camera-less, java app-less Samsung SGH-C160.
Days before having to pack my bags for [...]

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