Archives for October 2007
The Future of Books
It’s the year 2007 and things haven’t changed much. Newspapers are still being printed. Recording companies continue to make lots of money by playing the middleman. And computers look pretty much the same since their introduction - monitor, keyboard, mouse.
Sure, things are evolving rapidly, such as CPU speed, Internet bandwidth and web browser capabilities. But […]
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0
What is the Microsoft .NET Framework? If you’re an end user, you don’t have to care, except when you want to install, say, Paint.NET, and you find that you have to first download this thing called the Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package; at 22 MB, it could be annoying if your Internet connection […]
Jamais Vu
We all know déjà vu - that eerie feeling of having already experienced a situation that we know we’re only experiencing for the first time. I bet you haven’t heard of the term jamais vu, though, which is its opposite: an impression of experiencing a situation for the first time, despite knowing that we’ve been […]
The Problem with Software
A friend asked, “how to start a scalable project without having to recode initial stuff when we need to put more stuff in?” I would have laughed in his face except that he asked me through email, so I could only type “ha ha ha!” which I feel dilutes the effect somewhat.
But he really has […]
Malaysia in Seinfeld
Here’s a piece of trivia for Malaysian Seinfeld fans - in The Scofflaw (Season 6, 1993-94), Malaysia is where Jake Jarmel, Elaine’s ex-boyfriend, got his spectacles which supposedly make him look really good. An excerpt:
ELAINE: Jake, Jake. Take a look. (puts on the frames she bought) Aaw, see, you’re not the only one who has […]
