December 2007
42 posts
Ireland Budget Airline Calender for Charity →
It a sold out.
Inside Norway's ''Doomsday'' Seed Vault →
A mountainside near the town was chosen as the home for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a “doomsday” seed bank that will store backup copies of as many as three million different crop varieties in case of a worldwide catastrophe. The high-tech vault, which will open for storage in February 2008, is going to “put an end to extinction [of] agricultural crops,” said Cary...
MPs challenge 'doctrinaire' bishops →
Catholic church under fire for promoting a hard line on ‘immoral’ teaching in schools
“The report has outraged non-religious groups, who accused the bishop of trying...”
– http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0„2233421,00.html
Climate of fear hurts Singapore: author →
Politics is no laughing matter in Singapore |... →
FULL DISCLOURE: Mr Yap is from Singapore
Malaysian row over word for 'God' →
Talibanization of Malaysia in the making?
Bhutto Front Pages →
Newsdesigner.com collected international and American papers’ takes on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, giving an interesting look into how different news outlets choose to frame the same news stories. Some go for symbolic headlines in bold type such as “Hope takes a bullet”, others choose to focus on the facts, and leave the analysis for the main text (or others), for...
Dear prospective employers
Dear prospective employers, I do not do Print Medium (ie. Film output, 4-color process, pre-press). DO not be a tight wad and hire me to do both website and print medium (brochures, annual report, poster). For print medium, hire a print designer. For web, hire a web designer. There is different between a traffic police and an anti-nacrotics police.
Learning to love the stranger →
Recycling = Wasting Water
came across something like this “glass bottles are to be washed and cleaned before recycling” There are many people around the world who has no access to clean water. This is absurd.
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and...”
– Source Unknown
Is Sante in Ireland
Overhere in Ireland, Santa (as in Santa Claus) is called Sante (pronouced as San-tee)
“Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by...”
– Samuel Butler
This is not very good indeed
I just got this from the recuritment agency. Their client, a telecommuncation firm in Ireland apparently is not interested in candidate who has done contract jobs before. The telcom firm think that I might not be able to committe to long term job. Amazing! Being lay off in 2003 and has since taken variouscontract jobs - majority internet related which is my line of work before I got lay off. ...
Innovation
Thomas Edison, Leonard Da-Vinci, Google, Apple just do it while some chose to talk about it.
Get a raise
Like their Singaporean counterpart, Ireland civil servants also get a pay raise.
Icy cold hand and feet
FOR the first time, I began to feel the effect of winter season in Dublin. My hand and feet are icy cold. I was told that it might be getting worse coming January and February. The temperature as I post this entry is 4 °C
“Ireland’s culture of looking on business failure as a black mark is one of...”
– The Irish Time, 14 Dec 2007
D-Schools: The Global List →
“The real question Who has the most control over how well a thing is made? That’s...”
– scottberkun.com - Usability is not a verb
2 days of interview
My first face-to-face interviews after arriving at Dublin on July 2007. Monday - CPL Recruitment for a web developer position at Meteor Tuesday - Webmaster at 3V
The New York Times embraces Open Source...
It refreshing for The New York Times, a venerable institution for print newspaper to “actively embracing open-source technologies (PHP, Apache, MySQL, to name a few) with the goal of switching most of the site to open source over the next few years. We are also newly committed to supporting open-source uses of Times content where possible, whether through sharing public databases, opening up APIs...