Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
My trip to Hong Kong wasn’t one that was heavy on photography. Still, I had to decide which of my two camera systems to bring as I had colleagues presenting their conference papers and I’d promised to take pictures. The
There were a few moments of nervousness last Sunday while I was following the news of the devastation caused by Super Typhoon Mangkhut as it cut through Hong Kong island. A flight out of Singapore to the island normally takes
The main segment of the four day conference was a two day series of keynote speeches, talks and presentation of the papers – and hosted at the Hong Kong Science Park, which was right at the end of the Sha
After graduation from my first degree in 1995, I spent just over seven years working with an education provider who had numerous offices on the island. The work required me to move around the different locations scattered on all cardinal
We’ve been exploring getting a robot cleaner for our Minton home since moving in 4.5 years now, but kept putting it off on account that these devices were pretty expensive back then. The branded ones from LG, Samsung and Roomba
The new category of devices – Smart Speakers – seems pretty much like a natural amalgamation of several technologies that have surfaced over the last decade or two: voice recognition, natural language processing, and integrated services. Oddly, most of the
We actually wrote a series of posts 11 years ago during our visit to Rawa Island in 2007, but all but two (here and here) of those posts were lost when I migrated host servers around 2009-ish. Over the last
Between preparing for our Nov 2006 wedding and also looking for/buying/renovating/getting ready/moving into our first home @ The Rivervale, I think the both of us were pretty much not planning where we’d go for our honeymoon during the last quarter
Our blog has includes posts on the places we’ve been to, but it was only from the Bali 2008 vacation ten years ago when I got into the habit of really writing increasingly copious notes on our travels – with
A realization dawned while working on the blog yesterday to make it fully https compliant. The number of php code tweaks I’d made in the last year had basically somewhat broken the theme’s baseline that it no longer correctly recognized
My host server sent an advisory several days ago informing of Google’s decision to mark non-HTTPS websites as “not secure”. So, as host server providers, they were offering free SSL for their domain users. There’s nothing on our web site
Continuing from my last post about the new Acer Swift 3, here’s my fourth and 2018 edition of a long running series on notebooks: with the previous editions in 2008, 2012 and 2016. Things move so quickly in the technological
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