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Citibank hearts IE

What a load of bollocks. The first time I've encountered a site that actually FORCES you to use Internet Explorer.

For the Discerning Christmaser: 8-Bit Jesus

The holiday season's musical must have for gamers and nostalgic people everywhere. A collection of Christmas Carols made in the style of various NES games. My personal fav: Joy to Commando. Get them all here!

8-Bit Jesus!

Weekend in Review: Cipher Launch & Shu Shopping

I asked Sang Boon, "What did I do last weekend?" The weekend was really only just 2 days ago and I'd forgotten what we got up to already. This just highlights the importance of keeping a blog or some sort of journal. Anyway, back to the weekend. Weekends really start on Fridays don't they? Last Friday was exceptionally memorable. Why you might ask?

Quick WordPress 2.7 Thoughts

WordPress 2.7 is a very different beast from it's predecessors.

Well there are changes to the front end, like a more advanced comments system and I'm sure a countless number of little enhancements, but front ends are the domain of the visitor and theme developers. Let's look at WordPress from the perspective of a user. After all, us bloggers are the ones who will end up most affected by these updates.

Sherwinpedia featured on WeLoveWP!

Huzzah! Sherwinpedia has been featured on WeLoveWP!

LX3 with the Metz Mecablitz 32 Z-1

I must be living in some kind of treasure trove. Last time it was the viewfinder, and now this.

How To Plan a Last Minute Holiday

So we're going on a holiday to Japan. The original plan was to go to Europe, but certain unforeseeable events (subprimes etc) have forced my hand. So we're doing the next best thing, which is visiting Japan and going home (well Sang Boon's home) to Korea. Sang Boon and I are not the sort to go for tours, but we weren't exactly sure what we'd see or do in Japan, so it was a mad scramble through the internet to come up with a good itinerary. Google was a great way to start, but a lot of the results that turned up were links to travel agents or fluff in general. Given that you have to book your flights locally, we found three sites, and came up with a method that just about anyone can use to plot an itinerary rather painlessly, and maybe discover some other interesting things to see along the way:

Open Social Networks

We're seeing a lot of networks make their data publicly available through APIs: Twitter, Flickr, Brightkite and the lot all allow people to use and manipulate data as well as in some cases insert data, effectively allowing people to use their service without even having to visit their site. Data that would otherwise have been isolated and network-centric has now become freely available to all. After all, data doesn't like to be lonely either.

Yashica Viewfinder on my LX3

In my previous weekend in review, I told of my adventures in camera buying. That evening I went to dig up a Yashica lens kit that I tried to sell off unsuccessfully some years back to see if the lenses would fit. As it turned out, the lenses didn't fit. But I did discover that the lens kit came with a viewfinder. I then decided to see if the viewfinder would fit. I actually almost decided to get a G10 instead of the LX3 because of the lack of a proper viewfinder, so to find out that I could have a viewfinder on my LX3 for free instead of the $200+ it would cost me on eBay was a big bonus.