At the bus stop opposite Ion, waiting for the bus to bring me home, I noticed an advertising billboard promoting a certain skin whitening product with a bluetooth icon at the top, with a message telling me to switch on my bluetooth to receive a special offer.
Out of curiosity, I switched on the bluetooth radio [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘tech’
September 6, 2009
Bluetooth push advert
September 18, 2008
My new life in QA
life as a qa manager involves stopping my teammates before they screw up and shoot us all in the collective foot, among other fun and worthy tasks that my job scope encompass.
This aspect of the job was especially highlighted by my counterpart today who sits on the other side as the client. He told me, [...]
September 11, 2008
Camera-less Nokia E51
My new job does not allow phones with cameras. Rather than to spend $68 on a simple 2g phone that i do not want to use, i extended my 2 year contract with m1 and got a nokia e51 for $98. It’s my first 3g phone, so m1 had to give me a 3g sim [...]
July 20, 2007
Importance of being visible
Was having lunch with my Hokkien-spewing boss. One of the safer topics we would discuss over the meal would be the state of politics. Yes, far safer than our different views of how the company should be run. One of which was the complaint letter by Li Hongyi, son of the current Prime Minister. In [...]
March 21, 2007
Clicking game
I don’t believe this.
Someone has set up a server to accept clicks, and rank countries according to how many clicks they have submitted. This sparked off a war of clicks in which online communities in a few countries are organising themselves to submit more clicks than their competitors, thereby pushing themselves up the list. What? [...]
