Google Themes

Another cute offering from my all time favourite company.


Wait. There's more. The theme will auto change according to local weather. Cool hey.

Going Green

Looks like 2007 is the year to start going green. As much as i want to contribute to the environment by driving a Prius (which i cannot afford), i guess the only thing i can do for now is ...



Source: How to GREEN Your Sex Life

Plan(e) for your next trip?

For those who are particular of which seat allocation and what food is serve, do check out these websites. Very very informative especially the food pics. Yummy !!

1. Malaysia Airlines Boeing 747-400 - Try to avoid this seat if no views will bore you to death. Link



2. Close-up of Wagyu fillet. "I asked for it to be prepared medium rare, and that is exactly how it arrived! Perfect." Sounds like Japan Airlines plane has a kitchen !! Link

Google going kiasu?

Hmmm... an incentive to go Singapore at last. It looks like Google is coming to Singapore. Too bad it ain't Malaysia. Read all about it here.

I wonder if the office is going to be like Googleplex with junk food and stuff.

The Prestige (novel)

Reading kaywin's post was so enticing till i quickly rushed to Uncle Ho's branch in SS2 to get a copy *though kaywin is kind enough to lend me*. Unfortunately, it appears to me the movie is not exactly following the novel. Here are several differences (extracted from the always dependable Wikipedia but may be in the verge of closing down)

1. Both Bordens did not die in the end.
2. Both Borden and Angier did not physically injured each other due to sabotaging the performances.
3. In the novel Borden interrupts Angier's act by turning off the teleportation machine, but in the movie he interferes with the act without turning it off.
4. In the novel, Angier survives the events that have unfolded, but in the film he appears to perish many times.

many more here.

JSR 311: Java (TM) API for RESTful Web Services

Does this means RESTful is finally taking over the Web Service centre stage? If you have been following this space, there have been countless debates on the SOAP/WS-* vs REST due to the fact that the former is way too complex and the only real major implementation so far after all these years is WCF aka Windows Communication Framework from who else, but Microsoft.

The notion of REST + AJAX is just so simple to understand and build. Hopefully this workshop will bring more solutions to the table and solve this problem once and for all.

Hail Web Services !!

Update: If you are a REST basher, you may wanna join these people.

It is just never ending story.

Dee best web mail in the world

After nearly three years in the making, Gmail has finally opened up its doors. So, no more begging from friends and auctioning accounts in ebay that i think it is totally unnecessary and ridiculous. Even if its a marketing strategy, it wouldnt need to take them so long for this to happen, right? Anyway, i LUV Gmail.

and their Valentine's logo too. ;-p
*Apparently, there are plenty of blogs out there reported Google has finally screwed up their logo because of the missing "l" in the word. Its not, the strawberry stalk represents the "l". Valentine's day mah, so subtlety counts.*

Here is a video made by the Gmail folks. If you never try Gmail, you should.