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I haven’t really talked about this so far, but I’m heading up to Queens University in Kingston, Ontario on August 24th for exchange. I originally wanted to leave on the 22nd of August so I could celebrate my birthday here, and then land on the 22nd and celebrate it again, but oh well, no seats.So ...
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Haven’t had time to really get online after the IDC Conference, because of a night out with my two closest friends Rubin and Reuben with some grown up talk (jobs and marriage). But I really wanted to squeeze out a real quick post on today’s IDC Panel discussion and give you a sense of what ...
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So over the long weekend 8 of us from the Scout unit headed up to Yen Chee’s house in Johor Bahru to have a retreat and go into spiritual meditation and plan for the upcoming camp…No actually we went to play Xbox 360 till 5am in the morning and promptly resumed at 11am.And of course ...
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This week’s Music Monday is going to be short because I’ve been in bed all weekend nursing a cold and a bad throat, but let’s get to it!I was shopping at the mall (or what passes off as a mall in Kingston), the other day and was appalled to see cds being sold for $18 ...
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It’s been a long time since I’ve posted up a new video, so I’ve decided to do one today!Kingston - Random Update from Daryl Tay on Vimeo.One thing I love about being on exchange. I can wear absolutely ridiculous looking sunglasses like those, and no one even cares!It’s actually pretty cold, and the low temperature ...
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This post was going to be all praise for the Mandarin Oriental hotel, until they blew it literally at the last two minutes of my visit there.I was at an informal discussion at the hotel. I …
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What Read And Comment Day?Yesterday was Read and Comment day, where you have to make an active effort to comment on blogs and join the conversation. It was suggested by Chris Brogan, and true to form, he even left a comment here as well. Read and Comment day also inspired me to encourage people to ...
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I’ve talked about this before and have had varying opinions from both sides of the argument. Of course, a topic like this isn’t going to be put to rest that easily, and I’d like to share with you something said in class today.It was mentioned that something like 77% of employers screen their prospective employees ...
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Google’s Lively has been a pretty popular subject all of last week (interesting that Google chose a name that would only give them third spot on a search for “Lively”), since we were all on Plurk anyway, a few of the Plurksters namely Janellee, Clauds, Nadnut and myself took Sunday night off to visit Dorothy ...
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It’s no secret. I love Twitter and I love statistics. (The ones that tell you how you use things, not the number-crunching statistics). Awhile back @valene tweeted up a term “T*buddy” (stands for Twitter-buddy). Yesterday I saw a website via Twitter: TweetStats which, obviously, gives you your Twitter stats.So among other information (like I Twitter ...
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Remember that post about Retaggr? How you can use it to help maintain your online identity and consolidate your online services?I was having problems with embedding the html signature into my Gmail and was going to Google for a solution at a later date, but Nik dropped by from Retaggr and saved me all that ...
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Again, pure genius from How I Met Your Mother:Mark: “Robin, I don’t get the sense you like being with me.”Robin: “I like being with you!”Mark: “Not as much as you like being alone. You lik …
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I’m very happy to share with everyone here in Asia that Hutch Carpenter got a job at Connectbeam via social media. I’m not going to rehash the whole story because I think he tells it better on his blog, but I just want to share how amazed I am that a job could be the ...
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Yesterday I talked about two things not to do if you’re selling a homogeneous product in the context of comic book stores. Today I’m going to wrap it up with two more.#3 - Don’t fail to manage expectations properly.When I moved over to G&B Comics, they gave away Previews (a comic book catalogue) free every ...
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So my “professional” site moved to http://uniquefrequency.com last week, and now my personal site has moved to daryltay.net as well.The rss feed of the new site is http://feeds …
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I’ve noticed a jump in blog traffic to my blog posts regarding SMU “Are You Sure You Want To Come To SMU? Think Carefully” and “At Least One Professor Thinks SMU Has Lost The Plot Too“. I suppose it’s because now’s the time when people are getting their acceptance to one or more universities and ...
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You might remember me mentioning Reuben a couple of times on this blog. We’ve been friends via scouts since sec 1, and are both voluntary leaders in scouts today. (Not to mention Team Fortress 2 players virtually every other night).So the big news is: Reuben is getting married!It’s quite overwhelming and crazy at the same ...
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As much as I think SMB:S2 definitely did better than the first, there are a couple of things that bug me:1) Retention metrics2) RSVP-ingRetention MetricsI ran through the name list from the last SMB and looked for overlaps with today and it showed that only 17 out of 34 people who came for the first ...
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Remember why students should blog? Well I’m happy to announce that the third internship worked out and I start on Wednesday. Exact details won’t be posted because of confidentiality issues, but suffice to say it’s social media related.To me the biggest value is to be thrown into the “real world” and see if the stuff ...
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2) What Do You Do in Your SEO-Related Field Of Work?As a trainer in SEO and search marketing, I allocate “surfing time” everyday to visit forums, read blogs and articles to keep abreast with the latest SEO and traffic generation techiniques.Then I spend most of my “free” time testing these techniques to see how effective ...
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