Due to the unpacking/tidying up/rearranging and reacquainting with a new neighbourhood associated with moving to a new place, all IT hobby-projects are currently on hold. Hopefully can return to normal real soon! 
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Feb 11
House moving saga
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Jan 11
Honeycomb
The official preview of Android goodness (Honeycomb or Android 3.0) to come in, not months, but weeks!
Now I am really looking forward to get my hands on a good-ol 7″ Android tablet sometime this year.
Unless the 9″/10″ tablets including the iPad are going to have significant weight reductions, they won’t be on my shopping list any time soon because in my opinion, they are currently too heavy to carry in one hand for any extended period of time.
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Oct 10
Documenting Linux
Have not been very active on this blog of mine for quite some time, opting to write more about my thoughts on tango. A case of “writers’ block”!? 
Well, anyway, given that I spend reasonable amounts of time on fine-tuning my Linux system and preparations to build an “economic” Hackintosh, I will instead try to document some of the useful things I have discovered about Linux over the years – for the time being at least.
My basic system configuration is as follows:
- CPU: C2D E8400 (not overclocked, because my RAM can’t support it )
- Motherboard: GA-EP45-DS3P
- Graphics: XFX GT8500 (fanless)
- RAM: 4 x 1GB
- HDD:
160GB250GB SATA (/, /swap) + 1.5TB RAID-1 SATA (/home) - Optical: 2 x DL DVD Writer
- OS: Debian Squeeze
Anyway have been spending the entire weekend trying to recover from a supposedly failed drive in my RAID-1 array. By the way, with hard disks being as cheap* as they are now, it’s almost criminal not to get something ridiculously large… The net result: I upgraded my original 1TB RAID-1 to 1.5TB RAID-1!
* As of today, 1TB Seagate drives are SG$79 whereas 1.5TB Seagate drives are a mere SG$115 or about US$88!
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Sep 10
Gadget year
The times we live in are shaping up to be more and more heavenly for gadget geeks, not that I am one of course.
Nevertheless, I have upgraded/acquired a few items in the last 6 months.
- LG PJ350 42″ plasma TV: Despite plasma being a relative older technology and perhaps out of fashion given the flood of low-energy LED TVs in the market, this relative economical plasma TV (with the lower 720p resolution) has excellent picture quality to rival many of the more expensive (and larger) LED/LCD TVs, and very comfortable on the eyes too.
- Sony PS3: I never thought that I’d succumb to the computer games bug but once I got this console (with the intention of using this as a BlueRay player at some point), I am hooked on some of the beautiful game titles available! I will try to review some of the games I am playing now at a later date.
- AC Ryan PlayonHD: What can I say, a media player that can be easily upgraded (essentially a Linux machine) to play multiple formats, combined with network storage means the ultimate in convenience – watching movies on TV in the living room or on a laptop via Wifi.
- Network storage: Although I am mainly using network harddisks made by Buffalo, there are certainly quite a few budget choices to choose from these days.
- Panasonic Lumix LX3 (2nd hand): This was more or less an impulse decision. After being somewhat frustrated by the quality of videos on the equally good Fujifilm F200EXR (the low light department is excellent), I decided to give the reputed LX3 a try when I saw the quality of videos to be had with this camera.
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