For anyone interested, here’s a download and a screenshot. Also available at all good news agents in the United Kingdom as the cover story of the April 2007 Geographical!

Hahaha. the mrbrown show (where I used to work) takes a dig at my school — I am convinced that my screenshot of that school email (see above) provided the inspiration. You NEED to listen to this! The disillusioned of SMU (and there are many of you), rejoice. Somewhere on Victoria Street, feathers are about to [...]

If you’re wondering why many in the local blogosphere are suddenly sporting Nokia E65s and talking about some secret service.. most of us are testing a new service by Starhub, pfingo. (For the sake of disclosure: yes we all received a Nokia E65, but have signed contracts that say we give them back — they [...]

Just a quick public service announcement for Mac users left in the cold with the new E series phones. This plugin is well documented and it works great. Supposedly supports the N95 too. (Update: yikes, wrong link for many days, updated now) Also: Update to 10.4.9, because iSync 2.4 (in 10.4.9) now officially supports the N73 [...]

I’m not Catholic and I’m not abstaining from anything for Lent, but I’ve managed to quit: Twitterific (with >60 contacts on Twitter, Twitterific really means something pops up every few seconds), IM (more or less, except to a sprinkling of real world friends), and RSS. It’s temporary, of course. Productivity is up 291827%. I have 24 days to [...]

Quick, I need help translating the following into Chinese. URGENTLY! Please believe in toilet paper. I know all of you haven’t believed in it in the last 3 months, but it’s really quite useful (I know you don’t believe in water pipes either, since we don’t have any). What can I do to make you believe [...]

Some of you have been asking where the blog I link to on my sidebar, HORN OK PLEASE! has disappeared to. It’s been killed by the host (iblogs.com) so the author has relocated to a space of his own at Out There Somewhere. In case you haven’t been reading, my friend Jamie sold his house [...]

All true! Look at map. Stare hard enough until I feel a ‘tug’ when looking at a certain place/region. Repeat this 3 times to choose the place/region which does this most. Confirm that it is India/China/Tibet/wherever. Look at neighbouring countries. Google for land border crossings with these neighbouring countries. Locate most complicated border crossing that will involve the longest distances by [...]

I promised her an Asian music mix — but added some of my favourite African artistes. Playlist Ornob — She Je Boshe Ache (Bangladeshi/Bengali) Cao Ge — Fall In Love (Mandarin) Cao Ge — Zhu Guang Wan Chan (Mandarin) Machi — Machi (Hokkien/Min Nan) Amadou et Mariam — M’ bifé Ali Farka Touré — Savane I don’t really know what languages [...]