Archive for August, 2009

 

More from Viswa Sadasivan

August 28th, 2009

Viswa Sadasivan seems to be hitting all the right buttons, at least for now. Despite being very adamant about the need for the Singapore Government to change its deeply ingrained (and unfortunately outdated) perception of the attitudes of its own citizens and relinquishing its hard-handed control over the mainstream media, he provides balance to his [...]

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Ikrar Kita – Our Pledge

August 23rd, 2009

kami warga negara Singapura
sebagai rakyat yang bersatu padu
tidak kira apa bangsa, bahasa, atau ugama
berikrar untuk membina suata masyarakat yang demokratik
berdasarkan kepada keadilan dan persamaan
untuk mencapai kebahagian, kemakmuran, dan kemajuan bagi negara kami
I’m Chinese, not Malay. But does it matter? I am Singaporean, and despite the peculiarities and idiosyncrasies which I stand against, this is my [...]

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Jeb’s Jobs – Technical Support

August 23rd, 2009

For those geeky enough to remember the BOFH, here’s a modern-day (or Web 2.0 if that’s what you want to call it) variation on the same theme of dispensing evil, catastrophe-inducing advice to mind-numbingly stupid support requests.

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Youtube before Google

August 10th, 2009

For all that’s been said about Youtube’s massive content delivery infrastructure (in it’s post Google acquisition days), here’s a light-hearted look at what they were, or might have been like prior to that. From the days of yore when Youtube was still a (relatively) smallish start-up, Serverbeach bids a fond farewell to one of their [...]

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