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I’m back! healthy and happy

My surgery went well, aside from feeling sleepy all the time due to the pain killer’s side effect and a little soar  I’m perfectly healthy now and feeling quite happy that the surgery is done. I want to thank my partner Vincent, Chris, and Kim Poh for taking care of things when I’m away. The [...]

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Out of the office for two weeks

I’ll be out of the office starting 2PM today (Of course after Live Cast of WWDC 08 keynote). I’m having surgery tomorrow morning and will need to be in bed rest afterwards. I’ll still have access to my email (hopefully on iPhone 3G?), but will not be replying as fast as I usually am. Wish [...]

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LiveCast gets updated – It is now called Live!

Our Ajax live coverage system has been updated today. New look, faster backend and better data handling using Amazon S3. We decided to change the name to Live! rather than LiveCast, after all the subdomain said live dot – LIVE.SLASHGEAR.COM, LIVE.IPHONEBUZZ.COM and so on. Our next Live! will be on the 9th of this month, [...]

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2000GB Server bandwidth – seems a lot yet so little

When I moved R3 Network to SoftLayer, we received 2000GB bandwidth allocation each server. We don’t use much of our public bandwidth on MySQL server as we connect to it using internal private IP, however I can’t say the same for our web server. Based on last month usage (May), our web server has used [...]

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Doing Off-site server backup – not just another act of paranoid thinking

When we started R3 Media Network almost three years ago, Reggie, a buddy of mine laughed at me for having two backups of our sites on different places and labeled me a super paranoid geek. Recent fire on The Planet H1 datacenter was a wake up call for him as he was affected by the [...]

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Hard work beats talent any day

My sister is working very hard to prepare for her high school basketball season, she did not play well during her freshmen year – in August she’ll be a sophomore. She have many weakness in her game and I try to help her as much as I can. I like her way of thinking, that [...]

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SlashGear hits a new milestone – 10000 blog posts

It has been 30 months since we started SlashGear and today we’ve posted our 10000th entry. Vincent and I would like to thank our readers, staffs (Chris Davies, Chris Barr, Abby McVay, and Daniel Lim), and our sponsor Quartics for the support and hard work.

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IKEA threw up on my office

Not literally of course, but I refurnished my entire office with furniture I got from IKEA – the shelf, tables, guest’s sofa, and more. Now the only problem I’m facing is where do I dump my old furniture and how can I make sure the decoration my dad brought all the way from Bali would [...]

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