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Of Virtual Worlds

Posted on 27 Jul 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

Ling was asking the other night whether the RPG I was playing on the computer was a single or multiplayer game. Here’s the deal: ironically, while my major and life ‘defining’ work has been in multiplayer virtual worlds, since marriage

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Drakensang – Early Notes

Posted on 21 Jul 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

I wrote this entry for the school blog which I also run, so just copying + pasting + editing it here.:) — One trend I haven’t especially liked in the last decade or so of video gaming has been the

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R.D.Ms.

Posted on 8 Jul 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

My desktop PC had been acting real funny over the last couple of days. It has the 64 bit version of Vista Ultimate on it, and when I was first installing it on the PC in January this year, it

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The Sims 3

Posted on 16 Jun 200914 Mar 2018   by CY

Since picking up the PS3 a year and a half ago, I have been playing a lot less PC games than I used to. I think it’s several things: for starters, console games look amazingly good on a Plasma TV,

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Exploding handphone chargers…?!

Posted on 20 May 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

The TODAY newspaper publishes online a number of reader letters not found in the print edition of the paper. Here’s an interesting letter, if also worrying, funny, and disconcerting all at the same time. Online Only – Apple iPhone adaptor

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One year later

Posted on 26 Apr 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

Time flies! It’s been just over a year since I bought the D300, and I thought it’d be fun to do a short post on what’s happened to it over the first year I’ve owned and used it.:) Cost $2,450

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Posted in At Home, Photography & Cameras, Toys & Technology    Tagged Nikon, Nikon D300   

Expensive Apples

Posted on 12 Apr 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

On the overall, whether the iPhone’s of any good to a person depends on what’s more important in that device to him. As a mobile phone, the iPhone really isn’t very good. Messaging is difficult without an alphanumeric keypad or

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Better Apples

Posted on 11 Apr 200925 Jan 2024   by CY

The Fruit Phone has actually been called the Jesus Phones by bloggers and fans. It sure can do a lot once you get over what it can’t do LOL. Great UI. I can’t put on my finger on a single

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Posted in At Home, Toys & Technology    Tagged Smartphone   

China Apples

Posted on 10 Apr 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

No, this isn’t a post by Ling about the apples imported from China sold at NTUC. Rather, there’s a little imprint on the back of my Apple iPhone that says “Made in China”. If there was ever a bad omen,

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Fruity Taste

Posted on 9 Apr 200918 Sep 2011   by CY

I brought my D300 for sensor cleaning at the Nikon Service Center in today, then had my dental appointment, and picked up the overpriced fruit mobile phone. Let it not be said that I didn’t give the phone a try,

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More Onion

Posted on 7 Apr 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

The fun never stops! Hopefully even my friends who’re ardent buyers of Apple toys will laugh at this one.:) Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

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Photographic post-mortem

Posted on 31 Mar 2009   by CY

Every trip I make I get a more refined idea or perspective of what to do the next time. So, photographic post-mortem of the 8 day trip: Leave the Sigma 10-20mm UWA lens at home. I like the lens, but

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Posted in Photography & Cameras, Toys & Technology, Traveling    Tagged San Francisco 2009    5 Comments on Photographic post-mortem   

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