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In life, we have different goals. Some are short-term goals that we want to achieve soon, others are goals that we want to reach after a longer period of time. Our goals also have different priorities, some are more desirable than others.As for me, I have 3 goals that are very important to me that I want to reach within the next 4 months. However, I cannot fully control the …
In life, we have different goals. Some are short-term goals that we want to achieve soon, others are goals that we want to reach after a longer period of time. Our goals also have different priorities, some are more desirable than others.As for me, I have 3 goals that are very important to me that I want to reach within the next 4 months. However, I cannot fully control the …
I noticed some interesting, and in my case not desirable behaviour when I was exporting the results from a SharePoint survey to Excel: the order of the questions in Excel differed from the order in SharePoint.Some further analysis showed the following:When you export to Excel, the order is determined by the creation time of a question, so the questions that were create first …
I updated my iPhone yesterday to OS 3.0, no problems so far, the whole process went very smooth. First I had to update iTunes to 8.2, afterwards it asked me immediately if I want to update the iPhone. The download took a short while (my internet connection at home has been a bit slow sometimes in the past few weeks), the updating itself was done within a few minutes. All …
Since last night 1AM Singapore time, Apple's 3.0 update for the iPhone OS is available. While I haven't updated it yet (I was asleep, and after waking up went to work ), others already tried it successfully. An overview of the newest features and a guide on how to install the update can be found on Apple's website. Also, there's an interesting article that explains "How …
I discovered that my blog entries could not be found in the various search engines (Google, Microsoft Bing, Yahoo), however the main blog site could be.In the Lifetype forums (my blog software) I learned that under certain circumstances the person/bot/client/etc accessing a blog entry gets redirected through the error page (error.php), which will send a 404 Error (file not …
As it can be seen in the Tripit info-box on the left-hand side, I plan to travel quite a lot in the next few months, all possible thanks to budget airlines, and the financial crisis (which resulted in a drop in passenger numbers for most airlines, so that they offer some relatively cheap flights). The first trip will be 4 days to Haikou (海口) in the Hainan …
I was just testing Microsoft's newest search site, Bing. One of the first things people usually are looking for is themselves, and so did I. But the search for 'rene modery' did return one relatively weird search result. The second site Bing suggested is my blog here, however it gave it a weird title: A rough translation of 'Das Kilo von Rene Zum Abspecken' for all …
Today, I received the letter from the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) with my tax assessment. However, I wasn't expecting them to state that I don't have to pay any tax, they stated for tax payable $0.00I checked with our HR manager, and we found out that she had transmitted my salary information to IRS under my old Foreign Identification Number (FIN), whereas I …
The swine flu has reached Singapore, as just reported: SINGAPORE has confirmed its first case of Influenza A (H1N1), the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. The patient is a 22 year-old Singaporean woman who was in New York from May 14 to 24. She arrived back in Singapore from New York on SQ25 on Tuesday at 6.30 am. She began to develop a cough while onboard. She …
Instead of going to one of the more famous destinations here in Asia (e.g. countries like Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, etc.), I'll go to something even more exotic (well, the Asian countries are no longer exotic to me ). From December 29 until January 05, I'll be on Christmas Island! Christmas Island lies a bit southwest of Java (Indonesia), but belongs to Australia. It is …
It is now possible to manage a tasks list from within Gmail. To do so, it first has to be activated under Settings and Labs, then check Enable for Tasks: After saving the changes, a new link will appear on the left-hand side under Contacts:And here's how it looks like:Read the official announcement here.
Next week, on the 10th December, the Enlarged Jurong Point (meaning: the extension to the existing Jurong Point, my local mall) will open! And I just saw that we'll get a ThaiExpress! I'm so happy :)The official announcement can be found here, the list of tenants here.
This is what happens when one person uses Gmail for long email conversations (in this case the other person uses yahoo): Small preview: Longer version (but still not the whole thing): And it really slows Gmail down when you want to reply to that...
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