Monthly Archives: August 2006

Why Prison Break now looks stupid

Chillies aid Sumatra jail break Eighteen Indonesian prisoners broke out of jail using an unusual weapon – the chilli pepper. Prisoners at Pematang Siantar jail in Sumatra mixed hot chillies with water in plastic bottles to spray at guards. The fiery liquid temporarily blinded the guards, allowing prisoners to grab their keys and make the [...]

Ubuntu parcel finally received!

I ordered my Ubuntu CDs on the 24 July 2006, and although I had pretty much forgotten about them, I finally received my package today. It took just under a month for them to arrive in Hong Kong! I’m taking it for a spin now, so stay tuned for my “Ubuntu – First impressions” post, [...]

Boss RC-50 – the best demo ever?

When I look at music equipment, it takes a lot for me to go “wow, that’s really amazing. I want it”. But when I saw this, I was super-impressed. You’ve just got to watch it. I can’t believe Rico Loop isn’t more famous. He was on fire and rocked the show! Not that I’m his [...]

Guy survives ‘perfectly’ after getting crushed by a truck

Check out this video my fellow blog readers. A truck tips over and crushes a car, but the guy who’s driving the crushed car gets out and walks as if nothing actually happened. Amazing.

Stitch is officially the coolest cartoon character

Who agrees?

You can take my freedom, but you can never take my domain!

The most valuable part of my website is my domain name. Firstly, it’s super short – it stands at a bold 4 characters long. Secondly, it represents me – I am Timothy Wong. Thirdly, it took me a long time to get it. There’s probably a few more reasons why its so valuable to me, [...]

Sony Ericsson confirms ‘black diamond’ smartphone

This is my third update in less than 24-hours. I was going to save it, but couldn’s resist sharing. Swiss-manufacturer VIPN has just confirmed the availability of Jaren Goh’s “Black Diamond” Smartphone. This Windows Mobile 5.0-powered handset features a 2-inch display, 400MHz XScale processor, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 128MB of internal memory, an SD memory card slot, [...]

cPanel’s new website

cPanel is great – its one of the many (or should I say few?) things I have a legitimate license for. They recently revamped their entire website, and I think the new site looks fantastic. Old Website: New Website: I’m glad I quickly grabbed a screenshot of the old cPanel website, it’s now a piece [...]

Vurta; behind the scenes

Vurta has been up for a while now, our datacenter is the core to our business. Without it, there would be no Vurta. Our servers power our business. Because of this, we have strict guidelines on how our systems are setup, managed, and kept. As always, safety is a priority too. Take a look: Actually, [...]

Vurta Opens

Alright. I’ve been extremely busy with the launch of Vurta, hence a long time since my last update. Firstly, thanks to everyone for visiting, even if it has only been for a free Moola or Google Analytics invite. Vurta is a web hosting company set up by a bunch of people including myself. Since the [...]