The Olmypics Games 2008, held in Beijing, has ended two weeks ago, but some of us are still suffering from the post-even syndrome. It is without a doubt one of the significant events held during the Olympics Games is the opening and closing ceremony, with tonnes of firework display!

According to reports, this Olympics fireworks is more than 4 times with respect to the previous 4 games combined together. Imagine how much fire-power the Chinese government has put in to demonstrate its elegant pyrotechnics.

In order not to miss some of the amazing aerial display, some of the pictures taken during the event is shown here.

(Access to firework display pictures...)

As you might have realised, we have made quite a number of changes to our NeoHide site! Over the weekend, we spent a couple of hours performing upgrade to the Drupal engine. The Drupal upgrade process is quite tedious, but it went relatively smoothly.

(Read more about our upgrading story...)

Comex 2008, an IT event held annually, is once again in town at the Suntec City of Singapore. Last year, I introduced about Comex 2007, which sees an overwhelming response of IT interest audience and buyers.

This time, the IT event of the year is about to take the island by storm, showcasing booths and products across 330,000 square feet of 5 show room floors.

This year's event encompasses over 800 exhibitors with many more shops and bargains to drive you nuts! Participating companies include, but not limited to, Acer, Brother, Sony, Samsung, Nokia, Toshiba, Canon, Epson, Fujitsu, Panasonic, etc. Expecting to hit 750,000 consumers this year, the organising committee has spent a heft $55 million to ensure this campaign is a success.

    

(more news on Comex 2008...)

A new China Bird's Nest 10-yuan note, illustrating the Bird's Nest stadium, is replacing the traditional Chairman Mao Zedong's face (see above image).

In conjunction with the recent Olympics Games 2008, hosted by Beijing, China, the move is one of the first step away from the traditional look. Nonetheless, there remains other billions of notes in transaction that shows the Chairman Mao.

(Source: MSNBC)

Avril Lavigne is going on her musical tour - The Best Damn Tour - around the world. An unexpected destination is Singapore, where she will perform for one night on Sunday, September 7, 2008. This is a great opportunity for people within the Southeast Asia to catch her live in two weeks' time.

Check out the tickets from the SISTIC outlet. Prices range from $75 to $165. Her performance will take place at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

Prior to Singapore, the pop singer will be performing at Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Seoul (South Korea), Manila (Philippines) and Taipei (Taiwan) on August 29, September 1, 3 and 5, 2008 respectively.

Yahoo! Buzz is similar to Digg, a site where users can review other websites and share them with other readers.

Once a posted content (or site) gets sufficient amount of "Buzz Up", it will hit the front page; thereby driving a huge amount of traffic to that targeted content.

If you are a owner of some sites with great content, imagine the amount of traffic that can be converted into revenue or income it brings to you. Do not underestimate the power of traffic driven by Yahoo! Furthermore, if it hits the front page of Yahoo!, what do you think it can drive?

(Source: thanks to Al Carlton from SelfMadeMinds for the information)

Still running on the ancient, but stable version of Drupal 4.7.x, NeoHide's CMS engine has upgraded to the last release of 4.7.x branch to Drupal 4.7.11.

The upgrade is pretty smooth, particularly with the excellent compatibility across all the modules and themes used within the site. The next major project for our site is to upgrade the CMS engine to Drupal version 5.x branch before further upgrading to version 6.x release.

This is to be done with careful investigation so that the database system, themes and the modules do not break upon a major version upgrade. The migration process should take place within the next couple of months, before the end of this year.

Have you ever been to StarBucks or Coffee Bean (in some countries)? Even in Häagen-Dazs® does it too. So, what am I talking about? Yes, as you can see from above - COFFEE ART.

         

Enjoying a cup of cappuccino is not just simply the content within, but also the decoration from the skillful mastery of the chef who made the drink. It is a piece of art!

I have personally witness the person who did it right before my eyes and it was such a delight when the picture came out to be so beautiful. Honestly, I cannot bear to drink it.

(Below are some of the lovely Coffee Art Pictures, check them out...)