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Windows Utilities I

Posted on 28 Feb 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

Follow-up on my post on operating systems a while ago. I actually wrote this post and the next several days ago, but it got queued up behind the recent oratorio posts. One of the nicest things about running on the

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Posted in At Home, Toys & Technology   

Operating System Malfunctions

Posted on 17 Feb 200927 Jun 2019   by CY

One thing about end user computing that’s taken some getting used to has been the transition from text-based to graphical operating systems. For the first initial years up till Windows 98 at least, I found I could get system-centric tasks

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All wired up

Posted on 16 Feb 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

If there’s one thing I missed when I was in Perth, it was quality Internet access. The University network was pretty good, but public Internet access was a different matter. For the first year, I was using dial-up 56K connections,

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Posted in At Home, Children Blues, Toys & Technology    Tagged Laptops   

Tennis, anyone?

Posted on 13 Feb 2009   by CY

Of the three boys growing up at Lentor in the 80s, I was the only one who didn’t get into Tennis, which I think was the ‘in’ sport back then. Both my brothers did, but I preferred badminton. Maybe it

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Posted in At Home, Entertainment, Toys & Technology    Tagged PS3   

Slam dunks

Posted on 12 Feb 2009   by CY

My dad loves watching the NBA. It must be something about those tall black American players with their 3 point shooting and slam dunk moves. Myself; I remembered following the stunning debut of the American ‘Dream Team’ basketballers at the

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Posted in At Home, Entertainment, Toys & Technology    Tagged Olympics, PS3   

Golf, goofing

Posted on 11 Feb 2009   by CY

I’m not a sporty person. In the last 10 years, my exposure to physical training and activity has been limited to jogging, swimming, and all those training sessions in the IPT program in order to fulfill my yearly NS IPPT

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If I could dream…

Posted on 10 Feb 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

… it’d be of this lens: The Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR LOL. But I’m not crazy: the damn thing costs a whopping  ~$2.5K.:(

Posted in Photography & Cameras, Toys & Technology    Tagged Nikon, Nikon D300    4 Comments on If I could dream…   

Keeping up with the Lims

Posted on 5 Feb 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

I used to spend a lot of money as an early adopter of new toys that come along. I was quite at the forefront: the early 3D graphic accelerators just before the mid 90s, optical drives from 1995, video imaging

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Ling’s new toy

Posted on 20 Jan 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

Truth to tell, I think one or two of our friends are a bad influence on Ling. How so? Well, she was inspired by the steam vacuum cleaner that our small group friend Ann has. So on Monday evening Ling

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Lego bricks

Posted on 19 Jan 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

30 years ago while the three of us were growing up at our old place at Sembawang Hill Estate, we had a lot of Lego bricks. And we had huge tubs and boxes of those things. They must have cost

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Windows 7

Posted on 18 Jan 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

One of the best things about having more than a few notebooks and PCs at home is that one of the machines get designated as the throwaway toy and you can really try all sorts of stuff on it. And

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Posted in Toys & Technology    Tagged Laptops   

Toys and babies

Posted on 15 Jan 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

Matt was asking about a new toy I picked up. But ah no; this isn’t about toys for the coming baby.:) Ling has started making regular trips to Thomson Medical Center and in about five months will be delivering there.

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