What's your favorite music for a Sunday morning?
Submitted by Nick.
I would say something by Diana Krall. Goes well especially with hot coffee and the morning papers :)
I've been asked to sing for a company Christmas event. Not sure about it. Was inclined to give it a shot despite the late notice - i need time to practise! And we haven't even decided what to sing yet.
But my parents warned me not to do it. My mother expressly forbids me to sing. She says if I do this too often, people will only remember me for my singing and not for my work. I don't want that to happen, so if that is the case I won't sing. Of course, I do hope that by now, people will see me for who I am and not just remember me for 5 minutes on stage every half a year.
But one one hand we keep on saying we need more staff. Then the next thing people see is me taking part in these activities. Wouldn't that sound inconsistent? Fun as it may be to sing on stage once more...
What's the worst pickup line you've ever heard?
Submitted by ShellEy.
"I've had 80 girlfriends before."
Yes, that's what the first guy who ever asked me out, said to me. I decided that we should remain just friends after that.
What's the most drastic change you've ever made to your appearance?
Submitted by Laurie.
Hmm. I guess it was when I cut off most of my hair and ended up with something that looked like a crew-cut. That was when I was in university, far far away from home. Felt like such a rebel. Yeah, right.
For some strange reason, my main blog vantan.org is down. So I'm blogging here instead.
I'd like Vox to be able to import data from other blogs. That would really get things going...
[Update: My site is back up, after contacting technical support.]
Yes, the radio station was kind enough to send me the MP3 file, so you can now listen to it on Odeo.
What exactly is this about?
Basically, I co-founded the Government bloggers group (known in local lingo as "Gahmenbloggers") for people working within the Singapore Government who want to reach out to the public in a friendlier way. In short, how to start blogs, how to convince our superiors that it's worthwhile setting up blogs, and so forth.
The mainstream media in Singapore found this pretty interesting, especially after our Prime Minister made a rally speech last month about how we should embrace new media. With our new-found support, some of us in the group were interviewed and featured. This radio interview with me, is one of them.
I spent ages fine-tuning this post on my main blog (which uses Movable Type 3.3).
Because I am fussy about Web Standards, I used list tags. Because I like using my Amazon referral code, I made sure all links to individual book pages had my user ID attached. And everyone knows photos are more attractive than plain text, so I inserted cover images for all books.
In that sense, Vox is easier to use than MT. I haven't tried Typepad myself but I'm sure it's similar to Vox in that sense.
What was the last wedding you went to? Were you in the wedding?
The last wedding I attended was that of Stanley and Lizhen.
Stanley met Lizhen on her first day of work in a bank. She was trying to get him to apply for a credit card. He had other plans in mind, and got her phone number instead. The rest was history :)
What or who is your favorite product mascot? Why?
Hmm. I'd say the Michelin Man.
Because he's cute. And he has more spare tyres than I do :-P
After comparing the features of Vox and Typepad, I'm starting to wonder if there is too much overlap and whether people are going to move from the latter to the former.
If Vox remains free, and Typepad remains subscription-based, I can forsee a gradual shift towards Vox. However I'm not sure if you can import old posts into Vox - as yet.
Perhaps new users will be drawn towards Vox instead of paid versions of Six Apart software/services such as Movable Type and Typepad. I would prefer Vox to Livejournal which is more a blog service than anything else. To each his own, I guess.
