The standard set-up for a seat in a meeting room. Apple, mint box, blue glass goblet (covered for your protection), private label water.
And that fancy shmancy pen is from the hotel.
(I didn't use it, though. It's just a ball pen. I stuck to my trusty Pilot G-2 ;). )
And you know what? The concierge-like person that I bumped into at the end of the corridor linking from Starhill Gallery actually walked me up to the meeting room, personally.
The iPhone is the computer I use the most now day in and day out.
More quotables:
"If a media and web-centric computer were being designed today with no thought to what the computing norms of the past were, it would be a tablet."
"The iPhone *is* a tablet computer, just smaller."
I just set up a friend's PC. I haven't done that in a while. Wow. Apparently, a computer is now not a computer, it's an opportunity to upsell you. First, the setup insisted (for my own safety) that I sign up for an eternal subscription to Norton. Then it defaulted (opt out) to sending me promotional emails. Then there were the dozens (at least it felt like dozens) of buttons and searches I had to endure to switch the search box from Bing to Google. And the icons on the desktop that had been paid for by various partners and the this-comes-with-that of just about everything.
You get none of that crap when you switch on your Mac for the first time.
(Which is what the "installation process" consists of.)
On Feb 27, I asked of my fellow Christians, "How much of what we believe is Christianity, and how much of it is 'American folk religion'"? Thanks to Sivin [ http://sivinkit.net], I've discovered an American professor who's asked this question (and written a book about it, with one of the awesomest titles I've ever heard). Here's my original blog post ;).
A good Christian would never say, "balls"!
In Galatians, Paul uses some strong language, my favourite of which is where he muses that people obsessed with circumcision should go ahead and cut it all off (Gal 5:12). Googling Galatians, I found this guy (no link love for him) who argues that the KJV (which I love) is superior, because it says, with typical English manners, "I would they were even cut off which trouble you." Contrasted with the NIV which says, "I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!" This guy complains that the "great apostle" would never use such "bloody" language. Well! Tut-tut. Have you ever? He opined, "Which one do you think the great apostle Paul said? Is wishing someone would cut off their genitals consistent with a godly, sold-out Christian like Paul?" The problem is, Paul did say the C-word (castrate). It is the KJV that phrases it more politely. Years back, reading Galatians as Paul wrote it (instead of how I thought "sold-out Christians" should speak) really opened my eyes. Interestingly, for this Lent, I decided to give up denial and pretense. Ash Wednesday service, my friend and I were talking and I remarked that the Bible is not G-rated. Ever realise that? Watching kids' Bible DVDs with my baby boy, I noticed how many things are stripped out, haha! Why are some people (who are presumably *not* babies) so afraid of real life? If anything, I would argue that "godly, sold-out Christians like Paul" need to speak *more* earthy. We are Christians; we are not 1950s suburban Americans. "Chinese folk religion" is a mix of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and ancestral worship. When a Chinese Malaysian says, "I'm a Buddhist," you really need to dig a little deeper to find out what he means. In like manner, my question to my fellow Christians is - how much of what we believe is Christianity, and how much of it is "American folk religion"? btw, I love my American friends ;).
 It's finally here: Google Chrome for Mac. Available today in beta! Hi there, Thanks for signing up to hear from us regarding Google Chrome for Mac! We're excited to let you know that Google Chrome is now available in beta for Mac OS X. Here are a few fun facts from us on the Google Chrome for Mac team: - 73,804 lines of Mac-specific code written
- 29 developer builds
- 1,177 Mac-specific bugs fixed
- 12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Mac code base, 48 external code contributors
- 64 Mac Minis doing continuous builds and tests
- 8,760 cups of soft drinks and coffee consumed
- 4,380 frosted mini-wheats eaten
Thanks for waiting and we hope you'll give Google Chrome for Mac a whirl. Google Chrome Team
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In a previous post, I wrote: It's super smooth to do a screen capture in Mac: 1. command + shift + 3 to capture the whole screen. 2. command + shift + 4 > click + drag to capture part of the screen. 3. command + shift + 4 > spacebar > click to capture a window. In all cases, a png image will appear on your Desktop.
The people at Digeus provided me with a copy of SnapIt Screen Capture Software to review. This is what I learned. 1. SnapIt is snappy. It starts up quickly (after a hassle-free typical install). It doesn't slow down my machine. It runs in a little Taskbar icon. 2. It can be set up to mimic behaviour 2 above: 2.1.Press Prt Scrn and your mouse pointer will change to crosshairs. Click and drag the portion of the screen that you want to capture. 2.2. Right-click the SnapIt icon in the Taskbar and click Save As. 2.2.1. Or, set up the Preferences to autosave the image wherever you want - I save mine as pngs on my Desktop, mimicking my Mac. 3. And that's about it. SnapIt doesn't do 1 and 3 like the Mac does. 3.1. But I'm happy - SnapIt allows me to capture my Twitter Serendipities well enough! Give it a go - it's free to try.
The dream: Free SMS-like chat with your iPhone peeps. The fulfilment: 1. Get WhatsApp. 2. Watch WhatsApp automatically find other WhatsApp users in your Contacts. 2.1. (Make sure your contacts' phone numbers are present.) 3. Click on your WhatsApp-enabled friends' names to instant-message them for free! This beats Ping! because: 1. It's free. Ping! isn't, though the Lite version is (but it's ad- supported). 2. You don't have to create and publicise another username. WhatsApp uses your phone number. 3. Autodiscovery is the killer feature. You don't have to publish that you're on WhatsApp. Any user with your number will find out automatically. Go get WhatsApp from the App Store now! Go, go! (Especially if you're an iPhone-toting friend of mine!)
I dined with a shark today. They had shark on the menu, but I didn't feel like being a man eating shark. So I contented myself by being a man eating near a shark. Eating Portuguese grilled sotong and petai. (Squid and stinkbean - I think. It's late, don't want to google it. Want to sleep.) It was quite nice, actually. At a place called Atap Atap, right next to the Giant in Amcorp Mall. Try it if you happen to be there. It's nice, but not to the extent that I'd recommend you go out of your way to eat there ;).
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