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This sounds great, and congrats to the winners of Start-Up@Singapore 2009 for the Zimplistic Rotimatic.But I want to know ... can it also do the perfect prata?Chapati or roti is a staple i …
Well, weekdays being weekdays, I didn't manage to get up to Yishun last Thursday in time to enjoy Issak's world-exclusive, personally-guided bloggers' tour of the new Yishun Public Library before the doors were thrown open to the masses on Friday 14th. I did pop in on Sunday though ... along with the rest of the masses. I mean masses. Just collage a few hundred faces on this …
By far the biggest moth I have ever seen! It was in the bushes at my place in central Singapore, but I have never even had the hint of anything so large flying around at night.
uush .. I take a deep breath and prepare for the perilous task of blogging about a book that is all about writing well.I know my writing can be lazy and prone to opacity (to all except me of course), but I do enjoy reading about writing. Too many books attempt to just lay down the law - albeit with a garnish of humorous anecdotes - and don't really help me improve.Robert W. …
Long on my "must read" list, I finally picked up Freakonomics (by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner) this weekend, and discovered a fascinating book about interesting questions.What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?Why do drug dealers still live with their Moms?Where have all the criminals gone?What makes a perfect parent?.. and so onQuestions that …
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A few recent stories got me thinking about the status of open data in government, how that translates in Singapore, and in particular the importance of:open web publishing standardgiving p … 
The technical/geek community in Singapore has been showing some vibrant signs of life in recent times.geekcampsg some 80 or so people gave up their Saturday for 12 solid hours of geekdom - from robotics, to natural language processing, to android development and moreSingapore Ruby Brigade is going from strength to strength - last Thursday's meetup at wego packed in some 30 …
Oracle has released Oracle Database 11g R2 today - currently only the Linux version, with other OS to follow.The 11gR2 documentation is not yet available on OTN or for download yet, but I note it is already available online if you want to stay up tonight to digest all that's new. Chris Kanaracus' PCWorld review is one of the first to hit the streets.I've yet to digest all the …
Tweet: "How to Find the Top 10 Twitter Trending Topics in your City on a Google Map http://bit.ly/19rAOR #twitter"It is actually pretty amazing - see the screenshot below for what was trending just now in Manila.But, aren't we missing a whole lot of information? Apparently nothing has been trending recently in the whole of South East Asia. Despite the fact I just watched a … 
I announced jTab back in July, and there have been some nice improvements over the past month which I just tagged as a "1.1" release.jTab is a javascript-based library that allows you to easily render arbitrary guitar chord and tabulature (tab) notation on the web. Automatically. It is open source (available on github).I've also established a mailing list for jTab. All are … 
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