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Tolstoy for bedtime

Last night I read Tolstoy to my four-year-old.
No, it wasn’t Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace; it was Alexei Tolstoy’s The Enormous Turnip.

24 August 2010 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Worthy of a Moleskine

When I first heard about Moleskines I immediately fell in love with them. Just the idea of carrying around these notebooks – the type used by van Gogh, Picasso and Hemingway, no less! – felt awe-inspiring.
They are available in Kuala Lumpur, and the prices are perhaps more awe-inspiring than the notebooks themselves. The smallest and […]

22 August 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

When all you have is a hammer

… everything looks like a nail. The point I would like to make here is this: when all you know is C#, everything looks like a class.
(Note: When I say C#, I mean Java or C#. At the core both are the same. I only mean to avoid from having to repeatedly say “Java/C#” which […]

15 April 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Urgent

You don’t know the meaning of urgent until you’re stuck in a traffic jam with a small child who has just started potty training, who urgently needs to go …

17 March 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

App feature request

I wish that desktop apps would have this feature: when I attempt to close it, and it asks, “Do you want to save the changes you made to <filename>?”, there’s an extra button that says “View unsaved changes”.

11 March 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

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