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Smith v Hughes (1871) LR 6 QB 597:

… “The promiser is not bound to fulfil a promise in a sense in which the promisee knew at the time the promiser did not intend it.” And in considering the question, in what sense a promisee is entitled to enforce a promise, it matters not in what way the knowledge of the meaning in which the promiser made it is brought to the mind of the promisee, whether by express words, or by conduct, or previous dealings, or other circumstances. If by any means he knows that there was no real agreement between him and the promiser, he is not entitled to insist that the promise shall be fulfilled in a sense to which the mind of the promiser did not assent.

Gary @ 30 Jun 2009 :: A thousand words :: No Comments »

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-28

@mrbrown either getting old, or you have a closeted yearning for kway chap. in reply to mrbrown #
@skinnylatte You make me want to go to India again. in reply to skinnylatte #
@JaredChan what? you’re looking at the wrong person. I’m on world 3. in reply to JaredChan #
Finally! Some weather other than “hot”. #
http://is.gd/18WD2 Remember that shipload of suspected WMDs which left N. Korea? Yeah, about that. It might be headed here. #
http://www.spreeder.com/ I’m actually kinda amazed this works. Goes to show how much effort goes into scanning lines of text while reading. #
My colleague is hooked on PvZ too. Go me! #
I think @JaredChan and @slackee are in too deep. I mean… it’s just Plants vs Zombies, man. You guys are one step away from compiling stats #
June 22, 2009: Kodak ceases production of Kodachrome. WHY?! #
@ivelbob Do they inherit these interesting traits from the French? in reply to ivelbob #
A bluetooth webcam! So frakking obvious, now that you think of it. #
http://is.gd/1a37T ST enjoys itself reproducing stupid smses for our collective amusement. #
Bought a batt charger so huge, it has its own cooling fan. Promises a full charge of 4 2700mAh batts in 43 minutes. #
It’s making me quite nervous, to be honest. I’m keeping a very close eye on it. #
Wouldn’t want “charging batteries” to be stamped as root cause on my Certificate of (fiery) Death. #
This marks the first time I have ever been intimidated by any piece of consumer electronics. #
@ivelbob too much thought into the stats? I believe having more votes than voters is already a smoking gun. in reply to ivelbob #
@ivelbob I’d imagine that somewhere out there, Madonna is sneering at Lady Gaga’s come-too-late getup. in reply to ivelbob #
http://is.gd/1auMk Roger Ebert doesn’t seem to like Transformers. #
http://is.gd/1boA1 from the “awwwww” files: 2 six-year olds play nuclear power station with old computer casing, get PD and FD alerted #
“The Dead Ringer’s cloak meter can now be regenerated from ammo sources” Whoa whoa whoaaaa… #
RT @craftsquatch Win a Free @craftsquatch pillow! RT this for a chance to win a Twitter or RSS pillow, you pick! 2 winners! Goes til Thurs #
@fuzzybunn I have no idea, but I’m RTing anyway. in reply to fuzzybunn #
http://is.gd/1bENo PsyBlog has an interesting piece on how we seem to hold things moving from left to right in higher regard. #
Why the hell would someone want to name an MRT station “Kah Kee” (as in, after Tan Kah Kee)? It tells me fuck-all about where the station is #
Can of worms. As someone on sgForums put it succinctly, “how about bala the newspaper man? he also good leh. okay one station for him also.” #
I am tweeting because I’m trying to win a free Vado HD @CreativeLabs #
… I already have one, though. wouldn’t hurt to have another! #
Bethesda Softworks buys iD software. I foresee MegaTexture-enabled fallout / oblivion / new RPG IP in the near future. You heard it here 1st #
http://is.gd/1cMLd Those suggestive ads for BK’s 7-inch sandwiches have caught the attention of teh intarwebs. Now on Digg and Fark. #
Personally, I don’t have a problem with it; in fact it’s a very welcome change from the prude shit we usually get. #
Yawning Bread has a point: Marina Bay station is no longer anywhere near a marina, nor a bay. Maybe we should rename it “Inland”, or “ulu”. #
@mrbrown Don’t underestimate the power of beer goggles. in reply to mrbrown #
http://is.gd/1d1sF WAT? NOOOOoooo get out! get out! #
@JaredChan congratulations. your prize is that way. in reply to JaredChan #
http://is.gd/1d9gY I have a tendency to overpack; this is the result *after* I have trimmed the fat. #
I have a sudden craving for cincalok. WHY? #
HUNGRY… so bloody hungry…. i’m just about to start eating the crud scrapped off the bottom of my mouse. #
Thank god for microwaveable baos.I ate two of those mofos. #
@JaredChan my PvZ is stagnating. Not good. Even my colleagues have overtaken me. in reply to JaredChan #
Goodbye, Gloved One. #
“The day we are born, we begin to die,” states an ST commenter matter-of-factly over MJ’s death. Poignant, jarring, yet flippant - well done #
http://is.gd/1dJMa Michael Jackson’s final act: a DOS on several news sites. #
I notice Twitter’s Trending Topics list is missing. Just as well. It’s probably “Michael Jackson” “MJ is dead” ” RIP Michael Jackson” etc #
There are worse things than having Singapore learn of your piles problem through TNP, and dying of “fasciitis of the rectum” is one of them. #

Gary @ 28 Jun 2009 :: Tweets :: No Comments »

Day 46.

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Gary @ 22 Jun 2009 :: A thousand words, General, Photography :: No Comments »

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21

Uprising in Iran, telephone lines cut. Mousavi under house arrest. #
Mousavi twitters his arrest http://is.gd/11hDP #
“Mousavi losing his hometown is like Obama losing in a city where 80%+ are black and 99% are democrats. It’s not strange, it’s impossible.” #
http://is.gd/11G8J “See how the genitals make use of the gap.” #
“Loose trousers are the best; try without underwear - that is most comfortable.” I LOLed. #
@JoeAugustin You moved up to WP 2.8 from which version? I had the problem when I did 2.7.1 Root cause was the .js folder missing some files. in reply to JoeAugustin #
http://is.gd/12cud Israeli newspaper editor-in-chief hands over newsroom to a group of authors and poets for the day. #
http://is.gd/12cEQ Man arrested for destroying “three road blocking barrels by cutting and screwing them together to form a statue.” (pic) #
RT @mrbrown http://bit.ly/38Bqw Dr M rails against ‘little Emperor’ Kuan Yew #
Poor Dr M, stamping his feet and waving his fists in the corner as the modern world moves on. #
Also, the comments are hilarious. #
Ok. time to sleep. at 9am tomorrow morning, the 5-hour meeting which we adjourned today will CARRY ON. #
@skinnylatte “eat already shit”? “ah ma says this all day”? then what?? in reply to skinnylatte #
@skinnylatte haha let’s try again… “eat until old then must die”? I can’t make out the rest. Latinized dialect makes my brain hurt. in reply to skinnylatte #
@skinnylatte Ohhhh… thanks for the angmoh translation. Sigh. gf’s grandma passed on this morning. she was 80 odd, so this kinda hits home. in reply to skinnylatte #
http://is.gd/13sOm OMG social networking pillows! I would like one of each, excluding the MySpace one, please! #
From Reddit: “A pizza with the radius z and thickness a has the volume pi*z*z*a” - head asplode. #
http://is.gd/13wz0 Girl wanted 3 stars tattooed on face, gets 56. Ta-da! #
my 77mm CPL is now in 3 pieces - the mounting ring, second ring with the glass, and a thin copper ring used to hold them both together. fuck #
Voigtlander Bessa R4M or 5D Mk II? Choices…. #
http://is.gd/147bP Bloody EPIC sleep-in weather hit Beijing yesterday. Sky “black as midnight”, and authorities had to switch on streetlamps #
The secret to happiness is knowing when to give up. #
http://is.gd/14gda Badass repo-man specializes in cargo ship “extractions” from corrupt ports. I’d watch a movie about this. #
@slackee dude. at 4 bloody am? in reply to slackee #
http://is.gd/15RQp Hindus and Buddhists clash over coincidence of Vesak and the festival of the Goddess of Peace. Irony meter asplodes. #
at traditional chinese funeral. Lots of banging on things. Rites consultant is in a tie and shirt, complete with cufflinks. #
the hotter the weather gets, ve more respect i have for him. #

Gary @ 21 Jun 2009 :: Tweets :: No Comments »

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-14

How nice. Flickr’s top 10 in Explore today has 2 shots of Singapore. #
http://is.gd/RCpi “Tom Swifties” are curious puns that monkey with the description of reported speech for comic effect. #
http://is.gd/Snic World’s oldest vase found in China. Which confirms, once again, that everything is made in China. #
http://is.gd/Sw6R Job opening for 7-11 spokesperson draws huge crowds. Also, why is CNA’s logo green? #
http://is.gd/SBG7 Popular pwned. #
need to shoot something… photowalk tonight, maybe? going home to load my Smena 8M. Thoughts disjointed. watermelon. #
http://is.gd/SNxJ BREAKING: Some Singaporeans are cheapskates. (Hey, don’t look at me; The ST filed it under breaking news) #
…aaaaand the iPhone finally catches up with MMS. Hah. Also, 3MP cam for quaintness. #
http://is.gd/U1Jd Guy builds a 130 MP camera out of a flatbed scanner and an old canon lens. #
@mrbrown it’s so revolutionary, “cut, copy and paste” has its own little feature icon. http://is.gd/U53M in reply to mrbrown #
http://is.gd/Ucb7 Woman murdered, cut open, baby stolen. Perp looks like she might’ve eaten the thing for a snack. #
http://is.gd/Ucjl Cooling system sets off blaze, kills 44 children. It’s like raaaaiiiinnnnnn….. on your wedding dayyyyyy….. #
@slackee just did, last sat. :D but it was just me and XH. Jap buffet? Himawari FTW… you have’t been there right? in reply to slackee #
lusting over a palm pre. damn when will I get one..? #
“Changed the Dead Ringer so it can be activated while carrying the flag.” ooh. #
http://is.gd/Uu0r Twitpocalypse coming soon? Tweet IDs stored as 32 bit ints, and overflow is near. #
@ivelbob I was fine until I saw your tweet. Now I’m sipping a coke. Not good at 2 in the morning. in reply to ivelbob #
http://zz.gd/0ee0cb - whoaaaaa…. #
couldn’t sleep; had a cold, cold coke. going to try sleeping again. goodnight, world. #
http://is.gd/WlZK “Tan Wen Zhong was jailed a day and fined when he wore a bikini and paraded himself to women in a lift.” #
@slackee that would be yj i’m guessing. in reply to slackee #
http://is.gd/WGe2 Crank caller hits jackpot - convincing hotel employee to wreck the lobby to the tune of $50k of damages. #
@JaredChan Maybe you just don’t know about your FW port.. just like how you discovered your PCMCIA. in reply to JaredChan #
hmm. I wasn’t aware some smart cards have CPUs in them. #
This year’s income tax is THREE TIMES last year’s but I’m not making three times more. WTF? #
http://www.neverforever.net/ii/ Playing with one of Lightroom’s canned galleries. Fun. #
@ivelbob So ronery. in reply to ivelbob #
Doom for the iPhone?? Really, Carmack? #
ello ello… does anyone know where to get Portra 400 UC in Singapore? #
Woman who missed Flight 447 killed in car crash. Final Destination is real, people. #
http://bit.ly/iNGnJ
This is so perfect; I can’t tell if it’s news, or a humour piece. #
http://is.gd/ZztM We have a “Council for the Third Age”. Sounds futuristic, but in reality created to help the past survive in the present. #
Getting recalled on a lovely saturday afternoon. Thank you, SAF! #
@mrbrown eh. you kena open mob? in reply to mrbrown #
if a police officer has to fire at you to stop you from trying to run him over (in Singapore), you are sooo screwed. http://is.gd/10KOd #