Beware that strange email! Even though spam has accultured me to the subtle art of distinguishing wheat from chaff, phishing introduces a new level of complexity to the Internet.
Phishing refers to emails that masquerade as genuine instructions, hopefully from an institution where someone has an account. It normally directs one to a false […]
Its not often I’m without my mobile phone, but last night, my Nokia 7210 stopped working. It was a strange error - the keypad just locked up. Just like a computer error, except that it resisted all efforts to restore it to operational state. Took out the battery, restarted, nothing worked.
I dropped […]
Its been a long time since I came across a feature in the operating system that makes me go “Wow!”. Cleartype is one of these features.
Available only in Windows XP, ClearType enhances the appearance of on-screen fonts by using anti-aliasing techniques to enhance the readability of fonts on-screen. While this technology has been […]
Today is the 26th Ordinary Sunday of the year, and the Gospel tells us about the parable of Lazarus and the rich man, Luke 16:19-31.
Why did the rich man end up in Hades? Abraham’s words implied he was being punished not because of any sin he had committed but because he was […]
The hit musical Mamma Mia! finally comes to Singapore. This is the opening weekend at the Esplanade, and the theatre was packed for the Saturday afternoon matinee.
It took some creative writer to put together a musical using only songs from Abba - it was one of those innovations that became obvious once someone else […]
We’ve just finished going through the book of Exodus at the Harvesters. Its our first Old Testament (or more politically correct, Hebrew Scripture) book that we’ve studied, and we managed pretty well.
This book needs no introduction - its probably one of the best known stories of our time - who hasn’t watched The Prince […]
Daryl Houston has written a plugin for Wordpress that will get retrieve an
Amazon Wish List. This is a neat way of displaying a random item from my Wish List in my journal page.
This plugin is made possible using Amazon’s Web Service API to its store platform. While its been hyped for many years, […]
Trolling the web tonight and felt it was about time I performed a full system scan of my computer. So I downloaded avast! 4.1, after reading about its great reviews from Download.com (it had a 94% user approval rating!). Besides, my wallet was averse to paying hefty subscriptions to Symantec Corp.
So I started […]
Stephen Covey’s “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” was one of the most important books I had read about being organised. When I read it ten years ago, I knew that this was a Good Way of getting things done and have applied this with increasing conviction in recent years.
Using a variety of tools, […]
I’ve set up this site a couple of years ago, primarily to put my photos online. My gallery is still there at gallery.adriankok.org, but I’ve hardly touched this blog. Until now, I find its growing on me!
Why blog? Actually, its more like: why do I keep a journal? A blog is […]