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Archive for June, 2006

Today hacked through RSS??!!

Posted by pallid on June 28th, 2006

Edit: Here’s the cool Today feed created by uzyn, who has penned his thoughts in the comments here. Thanks uzyn!
I’ve always liked the way Miyagi writes… entertaining, self effacing and most of all, he knows what he’s talking about. But today, he’s writing about some hacker dude ripping the content of Today and putting them […]

Mashing Maps on Your Site

Posted by pallid on June 19th, 2006

This is definitely good news: Yahoo! Maps API, now for commercial use too (by Jeremy Zawodny). On the other hand, Google provides far superior (IMHO) satellite images especially for this part of the world (i.e. Singapore), hasn’t made the distinction between commercial and non-commercial. To quote:

“The Service may be used only for services that are […]

Disneyland?

Posted by pallid on June 19th, 2006

I was reminded of this article by way of Tomorrow - Wired 1.04: Disneyland with the Death Penalty - an essay on Singapore by William Gibson written in 1993. It led me to think about what Mr. Gibson might have missed out on.
For one, the grassroots are definitely changing, what with the rise […]

RANT: STOMP is kinda lame…

Posted by pallid on June 15th, 2006

I’m not going to comment on whether this will take off (it very well might) - but one thing’s for sure - I think it’s lame. Let me count the ways:

I’ve read starblogs, and man most of them just ramble on. Xiaxue was totally off topic, but at least that was entertaining (sounded kinda like […]

GPART

Posted by pallid on June 15th, 2006

I’ve been looking for something like this for quite some time now… and open source partition magic. Partitioning with FDISK is such a pain… I haven’t tried it yet though, but probably will soon since I’ve always wanted to double boot into Linux.
Linux.com | A quick look at the GParted live CD