The Singapore Digital Media Festival 2008 was held this past Friday at The Legends at Fort Canning Park. Unlike past “2.0″ events where I would attend as an interested individual, this time I attended DMFest as a representative from Microsoft, participating in one of the Web 2.0 panel discussions. In this blog entry, I won’t [...]
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Here is what the Google Analytics for my humble blog – Armchair Theorist – looks like from early July until today: What really stands out is the three spikes in traffic I received in the past three months. Let’s take a deeper look, shall we… The Mini Spike (Left Side) On July 12, I attended [...]
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The F1 Singapore Grand Prix was in town this week, so this can only mean one thing: Parties and debauchery. One of the many parties this past week leading up to the F1 race was the invitation-only Stylo Fashion Grand Prix which was held this past Friday evening at the Mercedes-Benz Centre. Somehow I got [...]
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So unfortunately, the first wave of Microsoft commercials featuring Seinfeld and Bill Gates are done. And here comes the second wave of Microsoft commercials, featuring the theme, “I’m a PC.” Although I enjoyed the Seinfeld commercials greatly, in my opinion this second set of commercials sends a stronger message – that is Apple looks like [...]
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As the old English proverb goes: All good things eventually must come to an end. This past week was my last week working at IBM. And since Monday, I have started a new and exciting role with Microsoft as part of their Developer and Platform Evangelism Team in Singapore. Yes, I’m moving from one empire [...]
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Good, bad or confused, the commercials got everyone talking about Microsoft, didn’t it? Even if one doesn’t understand the commercial, one has to admit that it is still pretty darn funny, albeit in a classical Seinfeld “funny about nothing” kind of way. In Apple commercials, you see Justin Long and John Hodgman make fun of [...]
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During the last 24 hours, it seems that everyone and their neighbor has something to say about Google’s new open source web browser, Google Chrome. I have blogged about my initial observations on Chrome yesterday, but today I finally had the chance to download Chrome and try it out for one full day. Here are [...]
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So the cat is out of the bag early. Google will be launching it’s own open source web browser called Google Chrome (as of Sep 2 in Singapore, this link doesn’t work yet). It has since been confirmed on Google’s official blog. Give credit where credit is due: The news originally broke from Germany-based Philip [...]
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Every shiny new application that emerges from Silicon Valley nowadays is always greeted by a flock of early adopters eager to try it out. I don’t exactly consider myself an early adopter (imagine – I only started blogging recently, long after it was the cool and “in” thing to do so), but I do sign [...]
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This is the most interesting thing I’ve read all week. John Amaechi, a retired NBA player famous for being the first ever NBA player to come out of the closet, offers his opinion on why athletes should speak out more on certain issues: …that if you would be a God, even if it is just [...]
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