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Notes before carbo-coma

May 2, 2008

It’s weird to come to office a day after a public holiday – everyone seems to disappear – either on leave or some unscheduled meeting … which in a way is a good thing as there’re no unwelcome distractions from some office’diots.

Speaking of May Day, it was a day of sleep as the night before [...]

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I am not 36…

April 29, 2008

As I mentioned earlier, I got asked by two papers about the ShutDownDay and one of them published the articles today (see above). The quotes were pretty much the same as what I can recall from my conversation with the journalist. They sent a photographer late last evening to do some rather (I [...]

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Back to the good ol’ days

April 27, 2008

After posting the “ShutDown Day”: http://jimmyliew.org/shutdown-day08-3-may/ event in FaceBook, I was contacted by a couple of journalists from our local papers about why I put that up. One of them actually posted a challenge to me – get unplugged for one day and live the challenge!

Basically I had to stay 10 hours free of modern technology – [...]

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Shutdown Day’08 – 3 May

April 22, 2008

So can I still do things without the personal computer? Can you? Let’s just start with one single day, and then revisit how life is when there is no internet, where conversation is done face to face and not via the Messenger. Let’s try…it’s also cut down your electric bill, at least for a few dollars at least.

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