Tag: tech & internet

  • Institute of Policy Studies

    mrbrown and I went to the Institute of Policy Studies this afternoon and met half a dozen old schoolmates. We did a little show and tell for them. Later on, ask we finished the cakes and puffs which were at the table outside. Then we rushed back to work. iTunes is playing an illegal copy…

  • Meme of Four

    Many thanks to whitebait for giving me something to blog: Four jobs you’ve had in your life – Waiter (Sydney) – Kitchenhand (Sydney) – Security Guard (Singapore) – Casting/Talent Agent (Singapore) Four movies you could watch over and over – In The Mood For Love – The Great Escape – Lost in Translation – A…

  • TODAY: Financial tips you can trust?

    Turning stock market pundits, bloggers cry kelong on unscrupulous companies YOU could say controversy and scandal accompanied the rise of blogs last year, what with extensive media coverage of sedition charges and threats of defamation action. Could the new year see a boom in blogs as legitimate sources of business and financial information? The disclaimer…

  • Please allow to use my photo

    Russian Restaurants Around The World Update: Alex from Restoran.us wasn’t very happy I posted our email exchange wherein he asked to use my Flickr photo of Shashlik restaurant and wherein I agreed. So he wrote to ask me nicely to remove the email exchange, which I now have: From: restoran.us Subject: Re: Please allow to…

  • Try ecto. It’s rilly, rilly good

    I like being able to compose blog posts even when I’m not online – though that’s quite seldom. And while you could use any old text editor or word processor to compose and format your posts, you’d still have to do a bit of cutting, pasting or clicking here and there. So I’ve been using…