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In the course of developing software for companies, it is a common, although unadmitted practise to leave backdoors in the applications so that they would be able to bypass certain steps in the process of development. For obvious reasons, I can’t say what is being done, however, one system engineer decided to take a step ...
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Yes. After a really long wait, and much anticipation (of a ‘legal’ iphone) and anti-anticipation (of perhaps being a non 3G iphone), we finally have the good news that 3G iPhone will be available from SingTel later this year! Woohoo! Time to start saving, if your hands is itching for the 3G iPhone. Alternatively, it ...
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Labour Day is a day for many to rest from labour (as opposed to having to labour on Labour Day). However, due to the recent rise in fuel and food prices, people in countries where poverty is still prevalent demonstrated on the streets asking their government to do something about the situation there. In Singapore, ...
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I’m not too sure about current regulations and code of conduct, but are newspapers supposed to publish pictures of accident victims? A MALAY man is in serious condition after he was knocked down by a motorist along Orchard Boulevard on Wednesday. The pedestrian (above) suffered serious head injuries and was sent semi-conscious to the ...
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So what really happened? Well, the sequence of events are all here, in pictorial form. But because there are 7 image files (which is good for non-flash installed browsers and not huge too) and I don’t think everyone wants to load this post every time they come here, you’d have to click below to continue ...
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Blogger Ng E-Jay of SgPolitics.net had been charged in court for his participation in an illegal assembly outside the Parliament House on 15th March 2008. Amongst them was veteran opposition Chee Soon Juan and his sister, who was also charged for biting an officer. I read into the circumstances they were charged for and found ...
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News reports of Malaysia’s de facto opposition Anwar Ibrahim sodomizing one of his aides have hit the stands again. Apparently, an aide of Anwar’s had lodged a police report alleging that he was sodomized by the former. This was similar to the allegations that landed him in jail in 1998. Police investigations are now ongoing. ...
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Well, if the reports in the papers were anything to go by, then you should not be paying anything more than S$90 to S$120; and no, I do not encourage the selling or buying of NDP tickets, which is given out free every year. Such touting had been discouraged every year by the organizers, but ...
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No, it’s not your regular bus cheaters who tap their EZ-link cards way before they alight. It’s not those who try to pretend that they have tapped (personally, I have seen a bus captain asking an ACS boy in Mandarin to tap his card; the boy looked blur as sotong - sorry, I digress). In ...
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A Malaysian blogger was charged after he made seditious claims against the deputy prime minister, implying that the latter was involved in the killing of a Mongolian woman. While he has not produced evidence of his claims, the plead innocent to the charge and refused to post bail. Critics have slammed the charge as a ...
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A few earthquakes had been waking up residents in the South Asia region in the past few weeks - way one too many for most to be comfortable with. While Sumatra/Indonesia sits on the Pacific Rim of Fire, but the recent episodes of earthquakes seem to be a sign of a larger one to come. ...
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No, you didn’t read it wrongly. Tiger Airways are giving away free air tickets, and it’s not one of those 1 free seat out of 300 seats. In fact, Tiger Airways are giving away 15,000 tickets for IMMEDIATE BOOKING ONLINE NOW!!! This promotion will end only when all tickets are fully booked. So if you ...
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Writer Camelli Tang wrote about how disdain the level of service at Changi Airport was while relating an incident that she encountered at the airport. Apparently, there was a sick passenger on board and she was helping and there was no one around to ask her if she needed assistance. She had to provide her ...
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The Traffic Police is considering the ban on new bikers from ferrying pillion riders. This is due to the high numbers of accidents that had occurred recently. The idea was to allow the bikers to get more experience from riding - usually a 1 year period, before allowing them to ferry pillion riders. At the ...
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A warm welcome to everyone who’s joined us today at School of Information Systems @ SMU, Seminar Room 2.4. Do feel free to drop by if you are around the area. Today, we have an interesting company showing us cool stuffs and we will be covering Architecture of a Web 2.0 Enterprise PHP application, Unified ...
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Haha.. it seems like we’ll never have enough of airport terminals, do we? Or have we gotten into an obsession of building these terminals? Apparently, a new Terminal 4 is in the pipeline. At the same time, a budget is set aside to upgrade the current budget terminal to cater to 7 million visitors when ...
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How many times have we came across a "Eureka!" idea but realised that we didn’t have the resource to do it? How many times have we thought of some silly ideas but waved it off just to discover that someone else did it later on? How often have we "talked cock sing song" with friends ...
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ERP charges will be going up soon and 5 more gantries will be added along the banks of the Singapore river, going live from 7th July 2008. LTA has also commented that the timing to increase the ERP charges has nothing to do with the current inflation issue because motorists will be given relieve in ...
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Quite unfortunately, the taxi that we tried to board just outside Orchard Presbyterian Church refused to pick us up after asking us where we were going. It was a destination that was just down the streets so technically even if he was changing shift, there’s no reason for him not to be able to pick ...
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After the COI findings were announced, the big question still lingers in everyone’s mind - where is Mas Selamat? Doesn’t matter (actually in a certain sense it does, but let’s all assume that it doesn’t) how he managed to find all the loopholes to get out. What’s more important is… is he receiving help from ...
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