April 2009
45 posts
“Phase 6, the pandemic phase, is characterized by community level outbreaks in at...”
– WHO | Current WHO phase of pandemic alert
If the situation does deteriorate to Phase 6, it will trigger MOH’s Alert Red, and schools will close. Pessimistically, it will happen within the next week or so.
“You’ve probably been told the big lie that “Learning is a lifelong process”and...”
– A Brilliant Speech by Adrian Tan, partner at Drew & Napier.
That was the teaser. The speech is really really really amusingly good. I wish ACS could get speakers for events who are just as good, if not better.
“Don’t say, “That’s to be filled in later—I didn’t have time.” Make the time....”
– A List Apart: Design is in the Details
It seems that the SG job market is in a state where someone is willing to give away a Canon EF 85mm f1.2L to whoever can land him a job. Wow.
I love teachers who start class at 10-15 minutes past, and end 20 minutes early – for a 100 minute period. Perhaps it shows that 5 hours for HLs in a week is a lot, even when we need to ‘catch up the pace’..
Mathtype on Word 2008
I didn’t realise the lack of VBA affected me – just realised I can’t insert display equations (vertically centred) into Word 2008 with Mathtype 6. ‘Insert Equation’ only does inline equations (baseline at same height as baseline of surrounding text).
I don’t want to keep Word 2004 around just for that functionality, so I’ll just keep copying and pasting...
Ikigai - What PowerPoint (and Garr Reynolds)... →
“Master your instrument. Master your music. And then forget all that bullshit and...”
– Charlie Parker
“If money doesn’t grow on trees, why do banks have so many branches?”
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
– Stephen King (via simko)
Is the stairw road to heaven paved?
In America, when your personal data is leaked/stolen/sold to the wrong people, you get an apology and perhaps an offer for a year of credit monitoring.
In Singapore, you see something in an ST article about a ‘review’ and stuff. Do you think the >15000 people were contacted with a explanation and apology? If you have heard of that, let me know.
But! We must be grateful and not...
Twit
If I had the hardware and connectivity to tweet anywhere, anytime, this is what I’d have said while at Great World City today evening..
just had a flashback of taiwan, in food junction of all places.. japanese food stall with very taiwanese staff
laura ashley has really cute doorstops and teapots. bloody expensive.
marks and spencer has new stuff! and they’re clearing cotton tees...
“I think cost of doing the same in Canada would be astronomical. But then again,...”
– Slashdot Comments | Bell Proposing Usage-Based Billing
tweenbots | kacie kinzer →
Little hapless ‘human-dependent’ robots run around NYC, trying to bludge their way to their goal. Cute!
RPN
fractoid on /.: “Tweenbots” Test NYC Pedestrian-Robot Relations
You’ll notice that it’s facing away from the stack of pigeons, because it’s a reverse polish cat. It’s preparing to perform a: rot # cat is now facing a pigeon dup dup2 # there are now 5 pigeons pounce # takes 5 pigeons and a cat on the stack, returns 4 pigeons # saved in temporary variables...
“So, that promiscuity with the volume of photos I capture teaches me that it...”
– Photography, and the Tolerance for Courageous Sucking | 43 Folders
This is the digital age. Maybe this is why some people revert/stick to film..
“… it’s like trying to wash your face underwater.”
Reading, England
My neck is screaming at me to take a break from the computer, so tonight I shall tackle presentationzen (this time in English), break for some amusement with the TOK text, and perhaps wander back into Hedda Gabler. Or not.
I still can’t find Nancy Duarte’s Slide:ology in the national libraries, and it’s a whopping S$61.77 at Books Kinokuniya :(
“It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever...”
– Now that’s refactoring. Nathaniel S. Borenstein.
“Teach less, learn more, go tuition.”
BugMe
I was just digging around my problems with accessing Bugmenot – strangely it seems that the favicon loads perfectly fine, but the page loads just don’t come through. After a while a RST packet comes round.
It’s evidently not a DNS issue. Getting Firefox to route it through Singnet’s proxy loads it quickly >_>
Update: Solution? FoxyProxy.
I honestly don’t enjoy playing 面子 games. They live quite far down my response list. It usually ends up leaving both sides even.. evenly deep in the brown stuff.
A relatively minor issue at the moment, which hopefully won’t grow any further.
“What can they do?” – is that arrogance, calculative, or just plain assured intelligent?
“The good news is that you don’t need to be brilliant to be wise. The bad...”
– Barry Schwartz: The real crisis? We stopped being wise at TED 2009
I take umbrage at the phrase ‘Please be reminded”!
fünf Zentimeter pro Sekunde
What’s the point of attempting to have teachers not crossover between IB1 and IB2 when our classes get disrupted by things like TOK OP anyway? I’m not going to bother counting the hours of class time we’ve lost to this (so far) and the forest of school events. No wonder our school days have to be so long.
On the bright side, we intend to screen Byousoku 5 Centimeter during a...
Luigi Bormioli →
A very elegant interface that uses AJAX well – it flows much better than a Flash site I just interacted with. Type is used well throughout the site, and the overall design works well with the high-key photos.
(They make glassware.)
Flexible Fuel: Educating the Client on IA →
(A List Apart)
riflakshun
It just occurred to me that not only is the Reflection photo competition’s theme rather vague, allows much space for cliché photos with water and glass, but doesn’t (directly) judge the photo’s relation to theme!
Originality
Informational Content
Visual Impact
Technical Proficiency
There’s also no need for a writeup, just a title. Hmmm.