Archive for December, 2007
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
I just chanced across an online store selling rugs. Some would call rugs a carpet - There's been some debate over whether which are the correct terms to use. Try searching for "rugs" on Wikipedia and you would end up with the explanation of the term carpet. Quoted from ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
This post is for beginners for Ruby on Rails who is learning from the Depot tutorial from the book: Agile Web Development with Rails 2nd Edition. The release of Rails 2.0.2 had deprecated some functions, and changed some defaults. I'm only started with Ruby on Rails for less than ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
I get the kick out of watching this video. Tuition teachers can try getting your student to solve the calculation of Singapore's taxi-fare to prepare them for their PSLE. Apparently this has proved challenging for several professionals.
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Original Code Monkey Video
An Awesome AMV which won an award. There is tremendous potential for free-lance artists (song-writers, firm writers and directors), and you have one more option than the conventional way of approaching firms to groom you.
I just chanced across Ling86's video on Youtube, and was definitely impressed ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
Promoting Small Businesses
- To be a free agent nation . 80% of the people works as a contractor, temporary job, or micro-businesses (with 3-4 people). The goal is to make every industries either a blend of oligopoly and monopolistic competition. In essence, there's a long ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Cisco believes that the next big wave is collaboration , and social networking. They are now rethinking how they can help companies distribute content more securely and efficiently to their customers, meaning they have to move into areas beyond switches and routers, but also about unified communications, wireless and ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
So Good O'Reilly noticed the opportunities in the finance industry for Web 2.0 to strike in. Check out the Money:Tech Conference 2008 in New York City. When will we see the next Bloomberg killer?
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Median monthly starting pay for cleaners and labourers has in fact fallen by nearly one-third, from $860 to $600, between 1996 and last year. To save money, he has stopped eating out for all his meals. Dinner is a simple meal of bread and Milo. To ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
I don't travel a lot. My father didn't believe that traveling was worth the hassle and effort. I used to hate it in the past, but I came to accept recently that traveling around the world does not rank very high on my life's priority list. I don't mind ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
An incredible alarm clock that will never ever cross my mind. It's wi-fi enabled, and is linked to your online banking account. Every time you hit the snooze button, it will donate a sum of money to charity. It's actually a pretty good idea for you to set a specific ...
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