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Ducky Mechanical Keyboard

DK9008 with black-on-black ABS key caps So, I got rid of my 20-dollar Logitech keyboard and bought my self a DK9008 mechanical keyboard from Taiwanese manufacturer Ducky Keyboard. Lame brand name aside, this is probably the best hardware investment I’ve … Continue reading

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Acer Aspire One

I’ve been thinking of getting a netbook since the original ASUS EEE PC, the granddaddy of netbooks, reared its tiny 7″ screen into this world and some Intel marketing serf came up with the term “netbook”, which by the way … Continue reading

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Why I Love and Hate Linux

For no particular reason, I decided to install Linux to a new disk partition today. It’s been a while since my last encounter with the OS (some ancient version of Gentoo) and things have changed a lot. Linux’s graphical interface … Continue reading

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Winamp 5.5 Beta Preview 1

Winamp 5.5 Beta (Build 1550) was released yesterday. The major changes in this update are album art support, a SingleUI skin and a new unified meta editor for all various file formats. Winamp 5.5 Beta Preview 1 (Bento Skin) I … Continue reading

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I am going blind soon…

And I’m not talking about the old masturbation joke either. Dell was having a sale over the New Year and I finally made the leap and ordered their 2407WFP 24″ wide screen monitor for a cool 1,099 SGD. (That’s about … Continue reading

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PSP now 721% more fun than before!

PSP just added about 2,000 games to its library of just under 300, making it just about 721% more fun than before. Yes, PSP can now fully emulate 99% of all the PS1 games out there and at full speed … Continue reading

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The Complete Otaku’s Guide to Tsundere Linux

The moé self-help books just don’t stop coming. It has been scientifically proven that anything with the word “moé” or “tsundere” in its title will sell like hotcakes. Image from Akiba-blog From Akiba-blog: Enter 「ツンデレ☆りなっくす」 or “Tsundere Linux”, a book … Continue reading

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The Long Tail and My Long Rant

If you follow any tech blog you would no doubt have heard of the term “The Long Tail” before. It’s not an entirely new concept but it’s gaining more and more media coverage in recent years due to the success … Continue reading

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Internet Explorer: The Fall of a Giant

I was looking at the visitor statistics for this site in Awstats yesterday when I noticed this… Note: August 2006 results taken on 20/08/2006. As you can see from the above rudimentary table that took all of 10 seconds to … Continue reading

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My New Laptop

I went to IT Show 2006 at Suntec City yesterday. Xbox 360 took up a huuuge booth. Meh. Nintendo took two for some reason. And they didn’t even have any DS Lites on display. Anyway, the main reason for my … Continue reading

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Overclock your PC with Cooking Oil

Feel free to try this at home. Common sense dictates that submerging your high-end PC in cooking oil is not a good idea. But, of course, engineering feats and science breakthroughs were made possible by those who dared to explore … Continue reading

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Christmas Physics

Best /. comment ever. Santa Claus: An Engineer’s Perspective I. There are approximately 2 billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Jehovah’s Witnesses, or Buddist religions, this reduces … Continue reading

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