Kishore Balakrishnan’s Blog

Simon Willison: Fixing Paul Graham’s Footnotes : …I’m a big fan of Paul Graham’s essays…Paul makes extensive use of footnotes, but provides no way of jumping from the reference in the text to the footnote at the bottom of the page and back up again. Instead, you have to manually down to the bottom of the article and back up again every time you hit a footnote reference…I couldn’t resist knocking up a quick greasemonkey script to fix the problem…

Installed. Useful indeed. Thank you very much

flights: Signs you’ve been in Singapore too long

( via TriNetre - The Third Eye: March 11, 2005 Archives)

Milton Glaser’s 10 Things I Have Learned

(via Seth’s Blog: Milton Glaser threw me out)

SAP Splits Software Dev, Product Innovation : …To better enable customer responsiveness and speed of decision-making, SAP announced an organizational restructuring of its executive board that realigns software development and product innovation into separate camps. Under the new structure SAP executive board member Shai Agassi will lead software development for the entire company, a realignment that not only keeps SAP NetWeaver development under Agassi’s purview, but also adds SAP’s Business Solutions Group development…

Good Experience - The Best Month for Customer Experience

The Good Experience Newsletters are “good”

There is a phrase in the newsletter “Link to this column:” which provides the permalink and intentionally or otherwise, means also to “link to it”

Multi-Meaning

Are you Managing Incoming Email ?

Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Singapore

How can I register a business firm in Singapore? >>> …log into www.bizfile.gov.sg to submit a transaction to apply for a new business…

How long will ACRA take to process my application? >>> It will take less than 2 hours to register the business.

What happens after the application is approved? >>> You will have to make a payment of S$65 for registration and your business registration will be valid for one year.

Speech by Mr. Wong Kan Seng, Minister for Home Affairs, at Home Team Flagship Workshop 2005 on 3 February 2005 : …The READY Bag contains essential items like a radio, torchlight and first-aid items, which could come in handy in an emergency. The READY Bag is not meant to be a comprehensive toolkit for every emergency…

TODAYonline.com : Got a ‘Ready Bag’ ready? : …The challenge, he said, is to get Singaporeans to practise being prepared as a way of life…

List found in the sundaytimes on Feb 27, 2005

1. torchlight or candles with matches
2. transistor radio
3. spare batteries
4. whisle
5. first-aid kit
6. personal medication
7. copies of important documents such as identity cards and passports
8. Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) Emergency Handbook
9. …

TalkingCock.com’s Singaporean Disaster Survival Kit