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Back in Seattle 2006
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:36 PM

I might have mentioned this before, the second city I feel most at home apart from Melbourne is Seattle. It's good to be back in the emerald city. It's just over a year since I was back in this city. Circusmtances have certainly changed since my

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Make a Guess, Where am I?
Monday, October 30, 2006 11:14 AM

No prize for guessing where I am right now :)

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Countries I Have Been
Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:20 PM

Alfred blogged about a cool map hack that can represent all the countries and here's my map :)create your own visited countries map Currently blogging from Miramar Golf Country Club (美麗華高爾夫鄉村俱樂部), Taipei, Taiwan

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27th Birthday Back in Singapore
Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:11 PM

Last week, I was back in Singapore for the regional academic meeting and this trip nicely coincided my birthday week. It was a really a last minute bonus and it was truly a surprise for me. Celebration 1 was a get together with my former co-workers

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Free .NET FX 3.0 eLearning
Friday, October 20, 2006 8:45 PM

Microsoft Learning is currently providing free .NET FX 3.0 (WPF, WCF, Workflow) learning materials online. Collection 5134AE: Developing Rich Experiences with Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio® 2005 · Clinic 5135AE: Introduction to Developing

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Getting Caught by the GF and others
Friday, October 20, 2006 7:30 PM

Someone passed me this video links at work :P Check it out! Getting Caught XBox360 India Ad Letterman on Microsoft's MSN Search

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Everyday Tasks Made Easier with Internet Explorer 7
Friday, October 20, 2006 1:37 AM

Everyday Tasks Made Easier with Internet Explorer 7 http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/about/video/default.mspx The RTM version of Internet Explorer 7 is now avaliable for download, get it today: www.microsoft.com/ie

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Microsoft IT defends against spam
Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:12 PM

Have you wonder how Microsoft IT defends against spam in our corporate network? You might to check out this white paper "Messaging Hygiene at Microsoft: How Microsoft IT Defends Against Spam, Viruses, and E-Mail Attacks" We employ a 3 phases approach

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All abroad for opportunity
Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:54 PM

A recent study commissioned by the Queensland Government and the International Education Association of Australia found that that six in 10 employers regarded the experience of overseas study as offering a "unique, competitive" advantage to a graduate's

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Check out this search engine - www.msdewey.com
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:39 PM

(Via Frank) Hello Nurse! Check out the evolution of search engine: http://www.msdewey.com/

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Servers Farms - the New Rural Industry?
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:21 AM

(Via Frank) Increasingly modern server farms lead by the surge of Internet content and services are finding themselves developing in rural areas around the world. These "wired factorys" are usually attracted to areas with good underlining internet backdone,

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Making this trip to SG
Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:39 AM

It's good to be at home. So much had changed, the city, the people. I feel like a tourist here. Got to reconnect with old friends in RHQ. Pity Howard is over in Sydney while I'm here. I'm staying at home during this week's stay in RHQ. It's good to be

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Back in Singapore
Tuesday, October 17, 2006 11:03 AM

*Ah choo* No bed beats the pleasure of sleeping on your own bed with the city view from the windows* *Scratch itchy neck* *Clear my watery nose* Time to get ready for work and catch the MRT train to One Marina Blvd. Back in RHQ for APAC Academic

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Verify a username and password in a database in Visual Basic .NET
Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:59 AM

In my days as a tutor when I was grading programming assignments, I noticed some students hard coded their user's name and password. When I had my interviews with them about why the login details were hard coded. The response was, "I don't know how".

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XML Notepad 2006!
Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:24 AM

Back in the days (not so long ago!) in 2004, I had to "labour" with editing XML documents with some freeware XML Editor recommended by my lecturer. That editor wasn't really good and so I often resort to using XMLSpy but I was limited by that trial

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Microsoft Watch with Mary Jo Foley
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:01 AM

Before I joined the company, Microsoft Watch has been my preferred source of information to keep up with the happening of Microsoft and even so till this day. This evening, my good friend Long introduced me to Mary Jo Foley in "person" and

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Protecting our OS by Securing the Kernel
Sunday, October 08, 2006 11:37 AM

Recently some security software companies had heavily criticised Microsoft approached to secure Vista (see: Symantec critiques Vista security/ Windows defense handcuffs good guys). I can perfectly understand where their concerns were coming from. Does

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<BUG> theSpoke Had a Brazillian Recently?
Sunday, October 08, 2006 10:20 AM

Notice something strange? Suddenly http://thespoke.net had gone all Brazilian! My locale and language settings were all mysteriously changed to Brazillian and now all I see are Brazillian content. I can't even post a bug report/SR to the English

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Quick! Off to the Mall to Escape the Haze :)
Sunday, October 08, 2006 1:07 AM

The air quality in Singapore plunged back to unhealthy level in the evening as raging bush and forest fires in Indonesia continued to send thicker and thicker smoke around the region. The National Environment Agency advised everyone to stay indoor

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Global Universities Ranking 2006
Saturday, October 07, 2006 11:53 PM

The Times Higher Education supplement had just published (Oct 6) their annual global universities ranking, which is available here. Personally, I have more faith in the results published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Honestly, I think its fun to compare

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Quote for the Week
Saturday, October 07, 2006 11:36 PM

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance. -- John C. Bogle (1929-) American Investor

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Apple Products Are More Secure? Think Again
Saturday, October 07, 2006 11:21 PM

I came across this article "Apple security - silence then abuse: The strange case of the company that could see no wrong."(Techworld.com) surprised me to read how lax and arrogant Apple can be towards security lapses in their products. Extract: Anyone

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Berno.Rnd()
Saturday, October 07, 2006 4:42 PM

Rnd() - Returns a random number of type Single This week had been one of the poorer weeks at work, I was feeling uninspired, disappointed and randomise. On the bright side of things, I managed to catch up with a bit of reading and started a social

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Yom Kippur and Ramadan: A Holy Coincidence
Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:52 PM

Today I overheard this article on NPR - All Things Considered Every three decades, for a period of a few years, Judaism's holiest day -- Yom Kippur -- falls during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Commentator Anisa Mehdi says that some of the faithful

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