Month: October 2003

Greetings, I have recently had Biznet2000 installed in my apartment. While it is a fairly big step up from my previous ISP, I happen to have a small complaint about the service. Biznet2000 is supposed to be a 2Mbps connection, and while I do understand that most internet connections are on a “best effort” basis,…

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2003/10/15/technology/6500295&sec=technology *giggle*

Recently, a certain “conflict of interest” (if I can call it that) has caught my eye. It is between a certain Mediface and the three (main) musketeers of Dinesh Nair aka Dr D, Jeff Ooi and Johan Ismail. From what I’ve read (mostly on blogs), it appears that Mediface is some sort of IT company…

Sunday is come, Saturday is gone. I’ve got myself a new toy, the MiTAC Mio smartphone. As most of you have probably correctly guessed, I have failed to restrain myself yet again. At least now I can finally put my 8850 to rest (hopefully) in a velvet lined glass showcase. Oh, found a nice picture…

Well guess what happened!!! That’s absolutely right!!! Absolutely nothing!!! Forgive my enthusiasm… I try to inject some joy into my life by stupidly celebrating nothing in particular. Spent a fair bit of the weekend working on the code of this blog, probably for lack of anything better to do (with the exception of chopping large…

Leaves are falling all around, It’s time I was on my way. Thanks to you, I’m much obliged For such a pleasant stay. And now it’s time for me to go, The autumn moon lights my way. But now I smell the rain, And with it pain, And it’s headed my way. Ah, sometimes I…

I dug out another hand-me-down today, this time an Onkyo DX-2700 CD player (which was also inherited from my uncle). My collection of audiophile equipment is steadily growing, which worries me. If I go mental on my audio equipment like my computer equipment, I’ll probably start selling my kidneys… or if all else fails, ask…