August 28th, 2009 by Eshin
Over dinner tonight I spotted a father who had an ingenious way to keep his baby daughter amused while he ate quietly – he sat her down in front of his iPod and played cartoons on it. It seemed to work quite well as the kid seemed to have that same plugged in look that I have had since I got my iPhone. The one where I am caught wandering around, iPhone in hand twitching for the latest shot of information. I was remarking to the better half that I wasn’t sure if plugging in a kid at that early age was a good thing or not.
On the one hand, I think the child needs time to just sit and explore the world, be restless, push the boundaries and well, cry and laugh as he or she tries, fails and succeeds to engage with things around it. It sort of feels like a much too simple way of child rearing to be entirely wholesome. Of course, not having kids myself, I might feel otherwise when I’m trying to grab a few minutes of quiet without a kid trying my patience. Still…
August 13th, 2009 by Eshin
One wonders whether Mark Zuckerberg is a little concerned about Facebook’s plans for world domination when we see reports of a Facebook Lite (via Mashable). Who would have thought Twitter would be the FB killer? Then again, it shouldn’t be a surprise. Facebook’s usefulness for me has been condensed into the iPhone app which is a glorified Twitter with photos for me anyway.
I think everyone got tired of Facebook’s greed and attempts to do too many things with their constant design changes.
February 1st, 2009 by Eshin
I am a fan of Flickr but one of the nagging gripes I had about the service was that it was a lovely Herculean task to try and upload my photos. I was simply unable to just drop a folder with photos in the Flickr Uploader and let it upload away. It would always fail to upload all the files and it would need constant attention
With the release of 3.0, I’m quite a happy bunny as I can now upload in fire-and-forget mode and am comforted that I don’t have to wait and supervise the upload of my images to backup. Unfortunately my MacBook fell ill and I’m not sure if I’ll be able to recover two memory card worth of photos. Luckily I have the high quality JPEGs but it is still upsetting to lose the RAW files.
Now, I no longer have to wonder about whether the 300-400 photos, constituting approximately 1 GB made it to Flickr. And, I’m up to date now as I have all my photos on Flickr.
September 27th, 2008 by Eshin
In a country that can and has changed the actual timezone it exists in to make it more competitive with its Asian neighbors, I have often joked that Singapore’s next big project should be to control the weather. If you can control the time, why not bend the forces of nature to your will. There are indeed rumours circulating that the Singapore government has seeded the weather to ensure that today and tomorrow are not spoiled by a petulant Mother Nature spitting out some rain on F1 payday.
Continue reading ‘Singapore Seeds Weather for F1′
September 24th, 2008 by Eshin
Netvibes, for all its greatness, is at it again with my account and this time some of my modules are not saving their stored information.
Looks like this feed is not valid or currently not responding
This is mostly affecting my Gmail modules but it is affecting some of the pure feed modules. I have sent an email to the netvibes folks asking what’s up but if it is a widespread problem, I guess they will have their hands full. Right now it is a minor problem as it is affecting feeds I know where to find back the URL (or even what that empty module box was) but it will be a major hassle if it start affecting the majority of my feed modules.
Right now, I have tried my previous researched solutions (including various cache resets) and just re-entered the feeds. This is a workaround though and not a solution if I have to keep repeating this.
