Redshirt in Star Trek (even Lego characters can’t avoid their fate)
Laughed when I saw this photo of a redshirt security officer come up in the Flickr “Interestingness” media bar. Now where are my old Lego sets…
Getting multiple RSS Feeds on Facebook
Was trying to look at how to post multiple rss feeds into Facebook since it doesn’t support it natively. Luckily there is Yahoo Pipes to the rescue. Great guide here teaches how to configure pipes easily to manage the aggregation of multiple feeds so that it can be used in the Facebook blog/rss notes posting. So with this link, I now have notes from 3 blogs automatically posted to Facebook.
I’ll need to take a look also at http://openkapow.com/ and http://www.dapper.net/.
Remedial Training or how to get $11 for your time
Just entering Phase 2 of Remedial Training at Khatib Fitness Conditioning Centre (FCC). I was somehow assigned to the running group even though I am horrible at chin ups (i.e I can’t do it anymore). Being in the Cat Y1 group means that there’s slightly more leeway to getting the passing score but its still a struggle when one has not been training very much. Phase 1 consisted mostly of lots of running and chin-ups to get people back in shape. By my estimate (regret not using Nike+ to keep track), running on average 6 * 400m (per lap) and 12 chin ups (1 particularly memorable session the PTI made us do 30, I truly had difficulty lifting arms for a few days) for 8 sessions.
An IPPT (Individual Physical Profficiency Test) was conducted during Session 8 and it seems that a good number of people passed but Phase 2 still seems very packed. Most people are probably going to labor through the next 12 sessions which will be more running (interval and speed training). Counting down till the last session and Taiwan trip already.
Do The World A Flavour
Yh pointed out a rather interesting competition held by Ben & Jerry’s in Singapore. They are calling for new flavours for their ice cream and one winner from each country gets to travel to the Dominican Republic. The grand prize winner gets to have their idea made into an official 2010 worldwide flavour! Take a look and maybe we’ll be tasting your whacky ideas next year 
Fringe goes Star Trek
I’ve been following the series Fringe for sometime with fascination. J.J. Abrams bring yet another series that reels you in bit by bit. After nineteen episodes, I must say this show has turned from being a distraction to jumping up on my attention scale.
The latest episode has references to the latest Trek movie (also by Abrams) with “renegade Romulans from the future here to change the timeline”. Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek II – Wrath of Khan also gets a brief mention and Emmanuel Grayson “Spock” gets to makes us all laugh at the references. This all leads to surprise surprise, Leonard Nimoy (THE original Spock) who plays William Bell!