Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
Continuation of my earlier post.:) The earlier incarnations of Windows kept their application settings in easily configurable .INI files, but have now packed them into a registry file. Most users don’t ever peak into the registry since it’s a cryptic
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
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
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,
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
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
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
… 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.:(
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
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
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
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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