It’s easy to get rich in the food industry in Singapore - many restaurants have made millions on name and word-of-mouth alone. There’s absolutely no need to spend any money on advertising at all, unless the owner wants to deliberately torture the public with haphazard fliers and low-quality, irritating television ads. Somehow, instead of chasing [...]
Finally, someone has come up with a good idea to help education in the developing world - hundred dollar laptop computers. That’s in American currency, of course, but a hundred USD for such advanced pieces of technology still sounds very ambitious.
The MIT Media Lab has come up with a project to create an affordable, full-featured [...]
Since everyone had been complaining so much about the ShoutBox screwing up, I succumbed and sent the author of the Wordspew ShoutBox plugin an e-mail, asking him for help.
I was pleasantly surprised when I received a reply detailing the solution so quickly - it was sent under 24 hours. He diagnosed the problem as a [...]
I was looking through my site’s logs, and I came across one search bot I’ve never seen before. The user-agent string identified it as a bot originating from ‘topicblogs.com’.
Naturally, I did some research on this mysterious new blog-crawler. I’ll summarise what little bits I’ve found below.
Topicblogs.com has a spartan minimalist design which carries text notifying [...]
Apparently someone thinks that this blog is useless. It isn’t. I fact, I’ve made a list of why it’s useful.
- It’s a good platform for me to practise xhtml/css/image manipulation.
- I get to exercise some writing skill, even if the posts don’t reflect well on my (really high) standard of English. FYI, I write most [...]
One of the main reasons why Singapore looks so dreary and boring when compared to other cities is the haze. Just experience Perth – everything just looks so fresh and clean, and it’s no wonder so many Singaporeans love to live there.
This haze doesn’t just limit our visibility like a lousy graphics card limits draw [...]
On Tuesday a horrifying sight greeted me on the pavement just outside the train station:
A dead pigeon.
At first glance I thought maybe the bird was roosting, or maybe just lying there in wait for something. A second look revealed that the bird was somehow mysteriously limp and its head had rolled to one side.
Bending down [...]
