I know that this is a tech blog, but what you have to remember is that the person behind this also needs inspiration to blog since blogging really isn’t as glamorous as a lot think it to be! There are more days than I care to remember where I’ve lacked inspiration to write, even about a topic I’m so passionate about. I draw my motivation and inspiration from a few main sources, one of course being my family, but now and again there will be someone inspirational who pops up in the news or my Twitter stream that perks up my determination to keep going. This weekend it’s been one young American-Asian : Jeremy Lin!

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The more I travel around the world the more appreciate Australia: the blue skies, rugged mountains, never ending coastlines, diversity of people, Four ‘n’ Twenty meat pie on a cold winter’s day… To all my fellow Australians out there, Happy Australia Day!
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It doesn’t take long for one living in Hong Kong to become immersed in Chinese culture and their calendar. Today is bigger than Christmas and the western calendar’s January 1st countdown – it is the start of the Chinese Lunar Year. According to the Chinese zodiac, this year is particularly special year – the Year of the Dragon.

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In a day and age, when the focus of Christmas turns more to the commercial aspects rather than the true spiritual meaning behind it, I thought I’d share the Christmas Story in a way that we of the “Facebook Age” could relate to.  I really like this depiction of the events of Christ’s birth from the view from Joseph’s Facebook profile. (see the full video below)

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Just this weekend, Nuffnang held its 2nd Asia Blog Awards in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Thank you to all our loyal readers and friends who nominated us for the awards however this time, I decided not to participate especially since I was more focused on conquering another challenge that I set myself this year – completing my first half-marathon! I’m happy to report that my wife and I completed our first big run with a reasonable time and look forward to many more. Back to the Nuffnang awards. Yes, so this means that there was a new winner of the Asia Pacific’s Best Geek Blog Award.

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It’s Friday! And to end the week on a lighter note, here’s another interesting you can do with Apple products – in this case the humble iPod Touch: MAGIC!

Marco Tempest, also known as “virtualmagician” on Youtube, shows the world that there’s a new breed of magician that’s sweeping up pageviews and visitors like never before. Rather than use rabbits, top hats and wands, he uses technology to manipulate (what appears to be) the fibres of reality.

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Yesterday we all heard the news that Japan experienced its largest earthquake on record and to make things worse, it triggered a tsunami which obliterated everything in its path. My brother and his wife live in Tokyo, so you can imagine my distress when I couldn’t get through to see if he was okay, or even alive. Thank God, we got word that both were alright despite the devastation the earthquake and tsunami caused. I was disturbed when he described the event and how at one point he thought he was going to die and couldn’t get through to his wife, who at that time was in the subway. Eventually they were reunited and are now looking for ways to leave the country.

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I’m in Las Vegas!

After a flight without any major hitches from Australia flying Delta (first time) and although slightly jetlagged, I was able to venture out onto Las Vegas Boulevard to capture some of the famous gambling city by day.

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We thought we’d start this week festively by sharing a Christmas Mashup Song by some of Youtube’s most famous artists. This of course includes budding filipino star AJ Raphael and the ever high pitched Nick Pitera (famous for singing both parts of Disney’s A Whole New World!).

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Very short post to show that blogging from a treadmill is indeed possible!

I’m at Fitness First walking briskly trying to prove a point

Haha I actually almost had a serious tumble which means this may be my last “fitness post”!

Back to the grind…