Since I’m on a roll today might as well blog enough for the rest of the week. I was looking at some blogs yesterday and I got to thinking……why is it that young people today take great delight in using crude rude language? I find it especially shocking especially when used by young females. I [...]
Archive for March, 2005
Mind your Language
Posted in Thoughts on March 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Adding a Counter
Posted in Blog on March 31, 2005 | 1 Comment »
OK finally got round to adding a Counter. I didn’t want one initially because I was worried that the pathetically small number of people viewing my Blog might put me off blogging permanently. Anyway I got the link from Blogger Help and it was really as easy as 1-2-3, much easier than adding [...]
Grin and Bear It aka the Dead Rat
Posted in Home on March 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Ever come across certain things you do not like to do but you just have to grin and bear it and get on with it? I had just that experience this morning when my cleaning lady informed me there was a dead rat in the lane just behind my house. It was starting to rot [...]
Animated Movie Sequels
Posted in Entertainment on March 30, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Just came back from a brief visit back home – with a nice break from the PC though hubby was bemoaning the lack of broadband Had the time to view 2 DVDs – the first one was recommended by my niece N, a chick flick called the Mona Lisa Smile. Hubby didn’t [...]
‘Face’ phone helps hearing impaired
Posted in Inventions on March 20, 2005 | 5 Comments »
Telephone conversations are difficult if you are hearing-impaired, but a group of scientists has created technology that makes things easier.
Using automatic speech recognition technology, the Synface software — short for synthetic face — displays an animated head “speaking” the words being said over the telephone.
The software “listens” to what is being said then displays it [...]
New look for ‘lifestyle laptops’
Posted in Inventions on March 17, 2005 | 3 Comments »
Read on CNN News that there will be a forthcoming range of fabric-covered laptop computers could change the way we think about electrical devices, transforming them from bland boxes into style accessories. When the E-Go notebook (manufactured by Tulip) goes on sale in October, customers will be able to choose from a range of fabric [...]
Looking for love in an orange
Posted in Local News on March 15, 2005 | 3 Comments »
Next year when revellers throw mandarin oranges into the lake at Taman Jaya here to celebrate Chap Goh Meh, bachelor Chin Choon Keat will be among those there, hoping to find a soul mate. He’s been doing this for the last four years, hoping that the Chinese version of Valentine’s Day would bring him true [...]
Hot dog: Meet Coco, Best in Show
Posted in Animals on March 14, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Just had to post this pic from CNN news about Coco who won the Best in Show title at the prestigious Crufts dog show in England. Don’t you think she is SOOOOOO cute?
Judge clears Leno for Jackson jokes
Posted in News & Oddities on March 12, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
According to CNN News, NBC “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno can lampoon Michael Jackson’s legal woes in his nightly monologue, so long as he doesn’t talk about his own personal knowledge of the case, the judge in Jackson’s child molestation trial said Friday. If you have been following the Michael Jackson trial you might have [...]
Spoken too soon…….
Posted in Home on March 12, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I was rather premature in declaring there were no water cuts this week. Yup our water supply was cut yet again this morning. I checked with a friend who stays in the same section as we do (but in a newer area) and was surprised to learn she has not been having similar water cuts. [...]
