The Panegyrist http://ketsugi.com panegyrist \pan"e*gyr`ist\, n. one who makes a speech, esp. praise or eulogy, in a public assembly Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:26:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en Three Cubed http://ketsugi.com/blog/three-cubed/ http://ketsugi.com/blog/three-cubed/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:26:50 +0000 ketsugi http://ketsugi.com/?p=1072 I guess I should do some sort of birthday post. It’s a nice geeky number too: Three to the power of three. So, happy belated birthday me, I suppose.

This was possibly the first time I celebrated with three large-ish meals almost back to back (dinner on Saturday night at Brazil Churrasco at Sixth Avenue, Sunday afternoon at Tao’s, and then Sunday night with a fabulous home-cooked meal). But more interesting to me was that this was the first birthday on which I received a large number of birthday greetings and wishes, far more than usual.

The fact that nearly all of these were received via Facebook, and mostly because Facebook reminds you of your friends’ birthdays, only somewhat diminishes the impact of them all.

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]]> http://ketsugi.com/blog/three-cubed/feed/ Who’s done what now? http://ketsugi.com/blog/whos-done-what-now/ http://ketsugi.com/blog/whos-done-what-now/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:12:13 +0000 ketsugi http://ketsugi.com/blog/whos-done-what-now/ Yes, this is my first post from the new iPhone 3G, using the WordPress app.

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]]> http://ketsugi.com/blog/whos-done-what-now/feed/ I’m really not that heavy http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/im-really-not-that-heavy/ http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/im-really-not-that-heavy/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:41:14 +0000 ketsugi http://ketsugi.com/?p=1067 I was going to post a collection of links to various news articles and stuff about the iPhone 3G launch last night, but it seems that it’s already been done by someone with far more time on her hands than I.

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]]> http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/im-really-not-that-heavy/feed/ I gots my shinies! http://ketsugi.com/blog/i-gots-my-shinies/ http://ketsugi.com/blog/i-gots-my-shinies/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:13:13 +0000 ketsugi http://ketsugi.com/?p=1065 I’ve got my iPhone 3G. There’s already been one article up and there’ll probably be more in tomorrow’s papers. I did interviews with all sorts of reporters, including people from HardwareZone, C|Net and even Bloomberg. It was pretty wild. Gonna get some rest and then it’s, well, back to work tomorrow. Zzz.

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]]> http://ketsugi.com/blog/i-gots-my-shinies/feed/ Not quite a gold medal http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/not-quite-a-gold-medal/ http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/not-quite-a-gold-medal/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:47:29 +0000 ketsugi http://ketsugi.com/?p=1063 Follow me via Twitter if that’s your thing. I bring you a covert photo from the iPhone queue at SingTel ComCentre.

The 1st iPhone 3G in Singapore is mine!!!

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]]> http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/not-quite-a-gold-medal/feed/ iPhone Apps - Ready and Waiting http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/iphone-apps-ready-and-waiting/ http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/iphone-apps-ready-and-waiting/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:38:13 +0000 ketsugi http://ketsugi.com/?p=1060 With just over 24 hours left before the launch of the iPhone in Singapore tomorrow night, the anticipation and excitement is really building up. For me anyway. Since the App Store launched several weeks ago I’ve been downloading and purchasing iPhone applications in preparation for getting my own iPhone, and I already have quite the library of apps sitting on my iMac, just waiting to be synced over to an iPhone.

Of course, if any of these apps turns out to cause any sort of system instability, trying to isolate which of these apps is the source of the problems will be a pretty big headache…

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]]> http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/iphone-apps-ready-and-waiting/feed/ Go There http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/go-there/ http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/go-there/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:22:18 +0000 ketsugi http://ketsugi.com/?p=1055 gothere.sg logo Since streetdirectory.com was taken down by the LTA (and is now subsequently back again under a new owner), many Singaporeans were left without a convenient online street map to use. That is, until mid-July, when tomorrow.sg alerted us to a new street directory site called gothere.sg.

gothere.sg has a very simple interface: enter in your starting location and intended destination, and it’ll tell you how to get there by any of three methods: bus only, bus and train, or by car. It’ll give you point-by-point instructions, including walking directions, as well as time and cost estimations. If you choose the driving route, it also offers to try and provide a route that avoids ERP gantries where possible, though this option is still being tested.

The maps it displays use the Google Maps API, which means you can do everything with their map that you can do with a Google Map: zoom, scroll, add notes, and so on.

The site isn’t without flaws; I’ve noticed sometimes that it’ll tell me it takes 79 minutes to walk from one bus stop to another across the road, or some such silly thing like that. But generally I’ve found it to be an incredibly useful site. It provides extremely useful information without letting the interface get in the way, unlike streetdirectory.com which is laden with all sorts of advertising and encumbered with an old clunky interface. If streetdirectory.com is Web 1.0, gothere.sg is certainly it’s Web 2.0 offspring.

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]]> http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/go-there/feed/ On Piracy http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/on-piracy/ http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/on-piracy/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:05:16 +0000 ketsugi http://ketsugi.com/?p=1051

From BrokenTV.

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]]> http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/on-piracy/feed/ Gamer Statistics http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/gamer-statistics/ http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/gamer-statistics/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:29:43 +0000 ketsugi http://ketsugi.com/?p=1049 This is several months old by now, but I only found this today thanks to TWiT and Wired. Here are some interesting stats about the video game market in the United States:

  • 38% of gamers are female
  • the average age of gamers is 33 years old
  • the average age of frequent game purchasers is 38 years old

So it would be nice if people would stop referring to video games as being “for kids”. Clearly, for a generation that <em>grew up</em> playing video games, there’s still a certain stigma attached to that particular choice of leisure activity. But the game makers have grown up together with the gamers, and the video game industry has correspondingly grown up as well. (And clearly, video games aren’t just a guy thing either.)

I’m a geek, and I’m damn proud of it.

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]]> http://ketsugi.com/panegyrist/gamer-statistics/feed/ How to Not Peel a Hard-Boiled Egg http://ketsugi.com/blog/how-to-not-peel-a-hard-boiled-egg/ http://ketsugi.com/blog/how-to-not-peel-a-hard-boiled-egg/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:25:35 +0000 ketsugi http://ketsugi.com/blog/how-to-not-peel-a-hard-boiled-egg/ This is one of the greatest tips ever, and I can’t wait to actually try it out and see how well it works.

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