Archive for July, 2008



Google has quietly introduced CalDAV support for its excellent Google Calendar. This means, once you set it up proper, changes made in either calendar will be synced. Hooray! There are still some nasty bugs to stamp out but this is certainly good news for Gcal + OS X users. I wonder if SpanningSync is worried. [...]

Yep, upgraded the iPod Touch to version 2.0. The upgrade went smoothly despite some users complaining of problems.

The SLA was missing though but no biggie really.
I had to pay for the upgrade, but I think it’s ok. Yes Apple could have given it away free but they could also simply not offer an upgrade path [...]

Nike+ Mini

It has been a while since I used Nike+ and I gave it a visit today. There’s this new thingy called Nike+ Mini which really reminds me of the Wii Mii.
Yes, it’s an ‘avatar’ that you can create - as a virtual representation of you. The Nike+ Mini offers something unique though - the [...]

To office, in a train!

The car is in a workshop. ’nuff said about that.
So this morning I took the train to work. In one sentence - hey it’s not as bad as I thought it would be! Some context - I haven’t taken the train in a really long time… Let me go on…
I left at about 7.45am, [...]

Durians from Bukit Timah

Last week, we drove down to M’s home in Bukit Timah. It is the durian season and he had some 200 durians from his mega tree. Now I haven’t seen a durian tree before and was a major skeptic that one could expect so many durians from a single tree. 200? Surely you mean a [...]