KSImage: Singapore 'Big Ben'?

This picture was taken from Boat Quay at Raffles Place. The tower with the clock look like 'Big Ben' of London, right?
If I am not wrong, the front building is Singapore old opera house before 'durian' Esplanade took over its function.

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KSImage: Giant Building

This is one of Singapore giant building, it hosts two of Singapore giant company, SingTel and GreatEastern. I took the picture from one of its corner.

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New MSN Hotmail Problem

New MSN Hotmail, which I understand from my company mail provider, implement new protocol when receiving email where it require 'sender id' and, as I experience in my company, email send to Hotmail account from our company's email domain (through our mail provider smtp server) never went through.... this was never been the problem before MSN Hotmail upgrade. The new MSN Hotmail indeed has cool interface and can be set look like familiar Outlook/Outlook Express because the are now using AJAX (well... GMail use this similar technology much more earlier). But the look don't justify if it doesn't functioning properly.

Well, it seems that Microsoft implement tighter control to overcome the spam/illegitimate email problem. Previously, my Hotmail account keeps receiving junks since old Hotmail's junk filter is not as good as GMail or Yahoo! Mail.

One solution is using major ISP smtp server, instead of your existing mail provider smtp server, when sending the email. For my case, I now use Singnet smtp (mail.singnet.com.sg) and problem with Hotmail settled.

Or, ask your friends not using Hotmail anymore.... better migrate to GMail!!

Windows Vista, Firefox, and User Account Control

I just upgraded Firefox from 2.0.0.3 to 2.0.0.4 and, after the upgrade, an annoying behavior happen everytime I run the Firefox: User Account Control of Windows Vista always pop up. This was never been the case before the upgrade. Feeling annoyed and curious, I search information from the web and last night I found out why. After the upgrade, the the Firefox was set to Run As Administrator, that is why User Account Control keeps pop up when you run it. What need to do is to remove that setting, and Firefox will perform as per normal.

To remove the Run As Administrator setting, right-click on the Firefox shortcut or Firefox.exe file in '\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\' folder, the select 'Properties', click on 'Advanced...' button then make sure 'Run As Administrator' option is not selected. Then select 'Compatibility' tab and make sure 'Run this program as an administrator' option under 'Privilege Level' section is not selected, do the same thing for same setting under 'Show settings for all users' button.