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Theme Change – 2018 Edition

Posted on 13 Jul 201814 Jul 2018   by CY

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

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https:// and SSLs

Posted on 12 Jul 201817 Jan 2020   by CY

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

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Notebooks through the years (2018 edition!)

Posted on 3 Jul 201814 Jul 2018   by CY

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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Acer Swift 3 SF315

Posted on 2 Jul 201814 Jul 2018   by CY

The Dell XPS 13 that I bought 3.5 years ago experienced a critical component failure 6 months ago in January this year – right at about the three year mark. Specifically, its battery could no longer be detected, and the

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12 Days in Taiwan – Initial Planning

Posted on 29 Jun 201815 Mar 2026   by CY

Like many Singaporean families, we do about two family vacations a year that coincide with the longer school holiday breaks in June and December, and routinely have to suffer the higher peak-period prices that go along with it. And that’s

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Sony A7 III – Dynamic Range @ Bali

Posted on 24 Jun 201820 Dec 2018   by CY

I did a lot of HDR compositions while I was still using the Nikon D300 ten years ago. And with a good deal of luck and preparation, pictures like these were quite possible: HDR shots though are by their very

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Equipment Review @ Bali 2018

Posted on 23 Jun 201830 Jun 2018   by CY

There were three lenses – the FE 24-105mm f4.0, FE 16-35mm f4.0 and the adapted Tamron 70-200mm f2.8 – accompanying the Sony A73 on its maiden overseas outing: and I ended up using just two lenses: and about 99% of

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Bali 2018 – Final Notes and Such

Posted on 22 Jun 201825 Jun 2018   by CY

The last post in our Bali 2018 travelogue! Right after we landed in Singapore last weekend, three of us – the kids and myself – all fell sick with largely similar ailments: coughing and runny nose – and in my

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Bali 2018 – Eat Till We Drop

Posted on 22 Jun 201822 Jun 2018   by CY

This picture-heavy post is for our Ang Mo bud! Unlike the Melbourne, Western Australia and Phuket trips, we didn’t dine-in Villa this Bali trip, opting to eat out every day on account that Bali has no shortage of restaurants, albeit

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Bali 2018 – Photography @ Villa

Posted on 21 Jun 201821 Jun 2018   by CY

I’m a creature of habit that routinely overpacks when it comes to traveling! Like in the previous trips, a tripod and ballhead got tossed into the luggage bag and since I’d lugged it all the way to Bali, I had

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9 Days in Bali – Itinerary Retrospection

Posted on 18 Jun 201815 Oct 2018   by CY

Now that we’re back at home, here’s our usual post summarizing the various places and activities we covered, with approximate admission prices and our recommended period of stay. Day 1 Kemenuh Butterfly Park (SGD30, 1 hr): small but beautifully done

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Bali 2018 – Day 9 – The Villa

Posted on 18 Jun 201818 Jun 2018   by CY

Our last day in Bali was nominal: we made our way slowly from the island center – Ubud – in a south-westerly direction, going through Gianyar, Sanur and past the airport first for a stopover in Jimbaran to pick up

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