Tag: tech & internet
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History of cat blogging
Quite apt that I found this graphic (via Friskodude), seeing as I’ve been talking a lot about Jake the Cat, and been pointed to a couple of cat blogs in response: While I started out on Blogger, and am a Flickr Pro account holder, I haven’t really (like Friskodude) gotten into YouTube, or the latest…
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Hooray Petite Anglaise!
I’m a little late in finding discovering that Catherine Sanderson / Petite Anglaise won her unfair dismissal case last month against her former employer who sacked her for blogging at work. But yay Petite Anglaise, and your wonderful, wonderful blog. And let’s hope that your former employers aren’t dumb enough to want to appeal. Technorati…
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Human spirit abundant guest writer
I was desperate to know what the Zaobao Now section of Zaobao was saying because there was a mention of ‘Mr Miyagi’, so I ran the paragraph over with my computer’s nifty translator widget, and this is what it said: Human spirit abundant guest writer Mr.Miyagi had even said perhaps, Lin Zhen thinks is the…
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Representing Singapore
A big thank you to Drs Edna Lim and Philip Holden for having Agagooga and myself at 10am in the morning, guest lecturing at NUS as part of the English Language & Literature Department’s ‘Representing Singapore‘ module. It was fun. (Thanks are in order to Agagooga and his fabulous Powerpoint skills too, or else I’d…
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Bless the squire and his relations
Once, when I was in junior college, the discipline master reprimanded a schoolmate for having his shirt tucked out while school was still in session. He said to the errant boy, “How dare you walk around with your shirt tucked out like that? What do you think this is? Your grandfather’s school?” My schoolmate thought…