Year: 2009

  • Unhacked

    OK, I’ve finally managed to clean out the entire blog and its directories, so I’m hoping that it’s all clean now. Those of you running wordpress, I can’t emphasize this enough: Make sure your WP is the very latest version.

  • Christmas gift ideas: get what Jesus got

    If you’re in the business of giving presents at Christmas, then you sure as hell better start now. (Yes, I did think about whether it was wrong to put hell and Christmas in the same sentence, but is just a figure o’ speech, yeronner!) You might take the path most beaten and take the top…

  • Kai’s first Halloween

    I’ve never celebrated Halloween till now, and because of that, we went completely overboard with the decorations for our apartment – we spent most of the week cutting out construction paper from templates we obtained either online or from the venerable Martha Stewart. Most of the enthusiasm, planning and execution was supplied by Naomi, while…

  • Advertorial: Citibank mobile services

    There will always be the last minute, spur of the moment, middle of nowhere transactions we will need to perform, away from the convenience of our office / home computer. Say for instance, you were overseas, or in a location without free wifi, and without easy access to your bank’s ATM network (or that your…

  • Wear blue to go green this Saturday

    They showed that 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere is the safe limit for humanity. The bad news is we’re already past that number – we’re at 390 parts per million, which is why the Arctic is melting, why drought is spreading across the planet, why humanity is facing perhaps its greatest challenge…