Multi-threading is quite possibly the most misunderstood concept from a consumer’s stand-point in computer science. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve heard statements such as “what’s the point with 4 cores, when current programs only supports two cores?”. So I thought I’d take it upon myself to clear this up, once and [...]

Hi.
I usually code stuff, but sometimes I have to write up presentations as well. So I created a presentation in openoffice impress and all looked nice and smooth. Set background picture for all slides, yeah, no problem. Saved it in “ODF presentation” format and felt I was done.
Later when I reopened it, only the first [...]

Team Umami can’t be any worse than Team M&M, so here are a couple of pictures from our office. Sorry about the poor quality, but my camera phone can’t compete with Howard’s leet optical camera. Also, unlike Team M&M, we’re not cool enough to pose indoors with sunglasses. Crappy camera and humble posing aside, at [...]

Wooho!
We have moved into new offices. We used to have one small office with four people crammed in it. Now we have two offices, two huge offices, and much better ventilation. Of course, when you split into two offices, you have to make a team name.
The other guys went with team Umami, and I’m sure [...]