My tweets

• 08:57 @RobertFischer : "City" or not? Depends. Postal address: "New York, NY". Differentiate from the state? New York City. #
• 08:59 morning, ye tweeters. got an email from a former colleague asking for tips as s/he's about to be made redundant...sad. #
• 21:43 @chrys : I pay a few pounds each quarter for "reliablehosting" which is a US based VPN, have had good results on various restricted sites. #
• 21:47 @helenroper : i thought his replacement, whoever he was, wasn't too bad. jack dee was strangely inarticulate, though. #

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This is actually here for spwebdesign...a picture is worth 1000 words...

Singlish lesson, anyone?

As a person with many Singaporean connections (HWMBO and his predecessor, my ex-, as well as many friends), I have an interest in Singlish. Well, one of my lj friends seems to be starting a weekly Singlish "lesson".

Singlish Part II

There are a host of Singlish vulgarities, many taken from Hokkien or other Chinese dialects. Here's a short film about them. NSFW, I fear, even if you have headphones as there are subtitles with helpful translations.

! from Brian Koh on Vimeo.

justin.tv in the news again, for the wrong reasons

You may remember that I blogged about justin.tv when it was relatively new. I have stopped watching as it's descended into something about as chaotic as Grand Central Station in rush hour. However, celloboi tipped me off to this story about a teenager committing suicide on the web. Abraham Biggs Jr. took pills laid down on his bed, and died, all in front of his webcam. I was startled to read in the BBC story that it was on justin.tv. Very sad.

For spwebdesign

Spreckels.

That is all.