I'm a tech reporter for TechCrunch.
As of late, I've been part of a video game podcast called Staring at Screens. Here's a daily photo blog I just started, 90 Letters from Home.
I have a band called Tricks & Cider. Sometimes, I make free ringtones over at Tinkle Tones.
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This was filmed about a month ago when I was visiting Hong Kong. I borrowed a guitar to pass some of the nights with, and the cover was a request.
The video was filmed in one take with a phone, and the audio turned out pretty okay, in spite. Technology is awesome.
So Posterous died an ungraceful but expected death, and here we are on Tumblr. (Shoutout to JustMigrate for pulling the previous posts here.) I wouldn’t have been prompted to switch over so quickly if not for the rather unfriendly goodbye-we’re-dead landing page that Posterous put up.
But it’s been a while since I last posted. Life over the past few months has been a source of change, some of those less than pleasant, but what’s been most fulfilling has been the launch of my band’s EP. We just did our launch last night at the Esplanade, and we had a smaller media launch earlier in the week. The reception was better than we could’ve imagined.
This is my band. I’m so proud of them. :)
The next few months will bring change. The kind that makes me nervous talking or even thinking about. But having wrung my hands for the past couple of months, I think I’m a lot clearer on what I need to do.
So I’m starting a photo-a-day blog to help me pass the days more thoughtfully till I leave again.
Looking at the screenshot at the start of this post, it was only recently when I was looking through the images in my phone that I realised there was a little home marked on the map. Call it what you will, I’m taking it as a sign.
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I’m back at work and still wading through the many responses we received from companies to that question. Last year, it was all about the “cloud”. /headdesk
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I haven’t thought about voicemail since we all stopped using it in Singapore some time at the turn of the century. What used to be a luxury service for pagers became a carry-over to mobile phones, and then became a hindrance because people preferred to get a text describing what the other party needed, instead of having to dial back and listen to this.
Blame it also on the answering machine never quite catching on. In the US, however, it’s a different story with voicemail well and alive.
As I pack to leave the US for Singapore after three months here, I remembered I saved an audio copy of Jody’s voicemails. She left me one every day the first week I arrived.
A joint survey of news consumers from the Pew Research Center and The Economist found that 60% of Americans under the age of 40 prefer a traditional, print-like news reading experience on tablets, free of interactive components like audio and video. Those older than 40 expressed similar preferences.
So basically, the findings were true for 60% across the board. Writing without thinking like this really bothers me.
If you don’t like an app that a Chinese maker made for the Chinese market, don’t download it.
We don’t have Apple-owned retail stores in Singapore, so this was my first experience with the Genius Bar. This guy wasn’t particularly different from any of the other staff there. I just want to know if they specifically hire people who look like this or if they somehow convert you post-hire.
