Category Archives: Asides

Congratulations Yvonne

You’re all grown up now

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Digital Edge 26

Yours truly was a panelist on The Digital Edge Podcast (Episode 26). We talked iPads (I’m bullish), PM Najib Razak’s social media strategy (decide if you want to be in or out) & Maxis’ 1Store mobile app store (what a half-assed effort).

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His name is Zachary

And he’s due in less than 2 months. *Excited*
Check out the whole set on Flickr.

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Itchy-faced kid does cover of I’m Yours

Found this on Twitter, linked from Jason Mraz’s blog. Cute little kid

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WordPress 2 for iPhone now available

WordPress 2 for iPhone is now available at the App Store. I’m blogging from it right now. Yes, you can upload pics from your phone. Learn more »

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PayPal now works with Malaysian banks

Here’s a great how-to from the webShaper boys: How to link PayPal to Malaysia Bank Account

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SMCkl #1 – Class is in session

I contributed a blog post to the SMCkl blog – Class is in session

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Four Davids

Four Davids at SMCkl
L-R: @davidalanbates @davidlian @blogjunkie @royalshortness

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Pei Chyi’s blog

Pei Chyi’s little space on the Innernet is now online. Sorry babes for taking so long to do it.

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Cuil has improved

Since the last time I checked out Cuil, its results have improved. Still not enough to move people away from their favourite search engines though.

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iPhone Cupcakes

I love these

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New Yahoo.com

Yahoo!’s testing a new homepage. Looks good. What’s interesting is that they say you’ll be able to check multiple mail accounts including “Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail and Gmail, with more to come”.

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Green Ideas

As a closet greenie, I’m going to try to allocate time for this project.
The X Prize Foundation, the same organization behind the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize to send private vehicles to the moon, said Tuesday that it has put together an eco challenge for YouTubers called “What’s your crazy green idea?” Dream up [...]

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StopForwarding.Us

Tell your friends to stop sending you spam:
Web site StopForwarding.Us sends a polite, anonymous email to a contact asking them to stop spamming your inbox with forwards. 
via Lifehacker

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Social calling cards

 
The other day when I met Erna at the M2U 2.0 preview, she gave me one of her MOO cards.
Then today Lifehacker had a post about Social Calling Cards. These are cards that you give to exchange contact details for social purposes, and not business.
Great idea! I feel like getting some for myself, but having [...]

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Alison Carroll is the new Lara Croft

Former gymnast Alison Carroll, 23 is announced as the new Face of Lara Croft at Pineapple Studios on August 11, 2008 in London, England. The new Tomb Raider game,’Underworld’ comes out on November 21, 2008.
Update: more pics

Gallery on AOL
Gallery on Ripten

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Olympic video screen FAIL

Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird’s Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting

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Which geek am I?

Suffian pointed me to the 56 Geeks project on Flickr. The closest I come to is the Apple Geek, although I would consider myself a bigger Internet Geek

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P1050396

P1050396, originally uploaded by blogjunkie

Cathay Pacific’s new 777-300s rock. They even have power plug points in their Economy class.

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Cuil

New search engine Cuil is going head to head with the big G. Unfortunately the results aren’t too great at the moment. Above is a screenshot of some of the results for the search term ‘blogjunkie’. I’m sticking to Google for the time being..

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