fighting the lack of good ideas
I’m getting ready to upgrade my desktop tower because whatever version of Ubuntu it’s running (I think 7.04) is too old. Are there any concerns or cautions I need to worry about? It’s the x86-64 release. My data’s already split onto other drives 🙂
Tonight I get to do the “turnover” on my Singapore residence. That means one last going-over before I officially move in on 15 July. Of course, on the 15th of July I won’t be in Singapore, so my helpful coworker whose wife is my apartment agent will be taking care of my keys whilst I…
I arrived in Singapore during the Great Singapore Sale, or GSS. It’s advertised everywhere. It’s the one time of year when [nearly] every store, restaurant, service provider, etc offers big discounts for shoppers. In Plaza Singapura, the mall next to where I work, they’ve been having different vendors taking-over the concourse area on the first…
Today for perhaps only the third time in my adult life, I had something that was too hot. I love Thai food. Being in Singapore has showed me beyond a doubt that Thai food is one of the few ethnic foods that is done the same everywhere – it’s the same in Durham, Sunnyvale, London,…
Couple things I’ve discovered about Singapore – beverages of the adult persuasion are nutty expensive. Soda doesn’t taste the same (and I don’t just mean the better versions of Coke that use sugar). I actually like the flavor of Diet Coke (the American kind). Coca Cola Light, as it’s called here, does not taste the…