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Mayorship!!!

Foursquare in Singapore now has benefits for Mayors!! Time to go Topshop/Topman to check-in!!!

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Snaps Technology Work

Corporate Incentive Focus Group

Is your corporate incentive good enough? First time as a focus group participant. Exciting!!!

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Interweb Technology Work

No Baidu for you!

Wah.. My office gateway blocks Baidu…

Baidu-blocked

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Interweb Technology

My Digital Past

My history of various blogs, some made possible by Internet Wayback Machine.

#1: http://www.laruku1006.blogspot.com

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This.. is absolutely disappeared from cyberspace. Been gone for way too long. Even Internet Wayback Machine can’t find it. First incarnation. Some of the oldest posts you see from 2004 were imported from here.
#2: http://ruku.iblogs.com
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iblogs was a spinoff from WordPress, for bloggers who are unfamiliar with complicated blogging tools. It’s really simple blogging platform, even simpler than WP. However, it wasn’t really popular and had a really frequent downtime. I couldn’t update my blog for weeks on end! Posts from 05-06 were from here.
#3: http://ruku.wordpress.com
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This is actually still in existence, but I’ve blocked the access for it from everyone else and put a placeholder on the front page that tells everyone that I’ve moved to my own server. Most of my posts dated before August19, 2008 have been moved to this current address, which runs on the WordPress blogging platform anyway. Posts from 06-08 were from here.
#4: http://mypaper.pchome.com.tw/news/laruku1006
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This gave me quite a surprise. I thought it’d be gone by now. I mean, the last I ever logged in was probably like 2005… It’s still there though, surprisingly. The posts have all been archived into a new one at Pixnet though. I think most, if not all, are duplicates.
#5: http://holeybaloney.pixnet.net/blog
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This is the most updated one I suppose… The latest. But I rarely blog in chinese so… I don’t really go in anyway.
#6: http://blog.yam.com/ruku
This used to be mine.. But I think I probably forgot my password to it or something and it was released back to the wilderness of the WWW. So now it belongs to someone else. XD
Don’t ask me why I have so many blogs. I don’t know.
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Technology

Gold-plated Leica anyone?

Fancy a gold plated Leica for your birthday?

For Leica’s 60th anniversary in China, they get a shiny new limited edition camera in GOLD. No I’m not kidding you. It’s GOLD. That’s G-O-L-D…

It’s fugly btw.. Seriously out of the world FUG. Proof:

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(via Gizmodo)

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Google vs China: Who will be the ultimate winner?

Google vs China. I wonder who will come out tops in this war of freedom of speech. Or rights.. Or whatever.

Gonna be interesting.

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MSFT launches microblogging site…

And it’s found to be a plagarised version!

Plurk’s lead designer Alvin Woon’s recently found out, from tips by plurkers, that Microsoft China has copied design, code, UI for its recently launched microblogging service.

If it’s true, which I’m inclined to believe it might really just be, then it’s shameless! LOL

Microsoft China rips off Asia’s No. 1 Microblogging Service

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The Gadget Buyer’s Decision Making Flowchart

How very useful this flowchart is! I love it! It’s going to form the basis of every gadget buying decision I make! LOL

(via Gizmodo)

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Another Twitter update beta?

Twitter seems to be rolling out a lot of updates recently, first lists and now this new retweet function? I like the fact that now I can retweet with a click on Twitter’s web interface.

Never understood why all other Twitter applications were able to do that but not the actual Twitter website.. That was dumb.

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Interweb Technology

Twitter Lists (Beta)

So I’m not supposed to tweet about it.. But they didn’t say I wasn’t supposed to blog about it! Haha!

Anyway, tons of people have already flouted the pretty please note from the Twitter team andtweeted about it anyhow so by blogging instead of tweeting about it, I’m following their plea! XD

So lists.. lists.. It’s a cool new feature that twitter has added to their functionality.. Basically you create groups of those you are following so that you can narrow down to only reading tweets from them.. It’s a great way that you can manage all those tweets you receive every minute of your day! Personally I think it’s going to be extremely useful if you follow a ton of people.. It effectively helps you to cut out those that are not important, especially if you don’t have much time but want to still catch up with what their friends / a select group of people are doing.

Having gone using plurk for a while but I still prefer the user interface of Twitter. Not to mention that there are more exciting things going on here too. Plurk is still useful to me because of the friends active there, and being more a Chinese version of twitter, to connect with mainly my TW friends.

Now I have to go dig out more people to follow on Twitter!