web feed by postal code

September 15th, 2006

it would be nice to have a web feed by postal code

  1. government can update the web feed as well as the notice board.
  2. residents can apply online to update info to the web feed (things for sale) - which can be displayed on the notice board for a fee !
  3. wip

Can you feedback to your government ? How easy ?

check out the Singapore Government Consultation Portal

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mp3 file names @ podtech.net

September 9th, 2006

singapore serangoon road is getting ready for deepavali 2006check the mp3 file names for IBM’s podcasts and others @ podtech.net

the latest from IBM is http://audio.podtech.net/audio/ibm/20060811_shortcut_no3.mp3

the latest from SAP is http://audio.podtech.net/audio/SAP/052406_SAP_Vishal_Sika_PodTech.mp3

consider creating all file names to start with YYYYMMDD

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Is it Steve Wozniak or Robert Scoble

September 8th, 2006

Since I invested in the N73 recently, I have been looking for good files to listen during the daily commute..

Had heard Paul Graham on IT Conversations and went there looking for the popular ones and found “Higest Rated” on the left menu..

The first one was Steve Wozniak.. I found the following

Steve Wozniak or Robert Scoble

Whose picture is it :-)

Experiment: Am not going to contact itconversations about this. Usually I do write to the website on seeing such issues. I have tagged the post with freedback and itconversations. Let us see when they get/fix it !

btw: does HP have ethical problem ? if the person at the top in a company has ethical problems, should the company be blamed and how much ?

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when nokia n73 displays “memory full”

September 6th, 2006

when nokia n73 displays “memory full - close some applications and try again”, it is not obvious that a list of running/open applications can be seen by pressing/holding the “menu” button

It looks like I have to RTFM !

Instead of getting 3 booklets with infomation, it would have been useful to provide 2 booklets “Getting Started” and “FAQ”. The FAQ should point to the latest version on the net. Am starting a Nokia N73 FAQ

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Use Public

September 5th, 2006

Few days ago, I saw a sticker on a taxi “If you drink, use public”. The sticker was issued by the SPF

At least the key goverment organizations should get their propaganda material proof-read by the people behind the Speak Good English Movement

“If you drink, don’t drive” was clear.

The mrbrown Show is hilarious. The latest is the mrbrown show: native speakers corner

mrbrown: use Pretty Permalinks

Do you know that Singapore is the host for the 2006 Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group.

Since it will be _the_ event in Singapore for 2006, there is a website appropriately named Singapore 2006

..The Annual Meetings of the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund† (IMF) and World Bank Group†† are the largest and most comprehensive gathering of global financial representatives in the world, and are held outside their Washington, D.C. base every third year.. WOW

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I wish to tag the notes in the google notebook

September 3rd, 2006

I came across the Google Notebook by chance

Now. it is _the_ first of many in the Home Page of the Firefox. (open challenge: Guess the rest of the tabs!)
It would be so so so nice to be able to tag the notes

example: tag note “reddit feature: limit number of submits based on karma” with “todo prio 1″ and when implemented (when reddit? when :-) ) change to “done 2008-10-20″

Yes, it is still in the labs and maybe the feature is on the way

maybe, the notebook was not meant to do this.

but, is that not the point of great software? they are great because it is possible to do stuff that was not meant to be by the great developers :-)

What are your essential services on the web

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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s 2006 National Day Rally Speeches

August 21st, 2006

The PM spoke in 3 languages: English, Mandarin and Malay. When will there be a speech in Tamil ?

The Current Press Releases site SPRInter (linked to from www.gov.sg) for several minutes displayed : ..There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request..

English text of the speech in Malay

English text of the speech in Mandarin

English text of the speech in English

Why are the title texts in ALL CAPS ?

sprinter headlines in all CAPS

Dear sprinter administrator, see Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes which states ..I noticed several headlines in ALL CAPS. That’s always bad. Reading speed is reduced by 10% and users are put off by the appearance of shouting..What about the Malay, Mandarin text of the speech in English ?

Freedback for the SPRInter

The PM stated “mrbrown is a talented man” (found @ the about page: And I have a regular Friday column I USED to have a regular Friday column for TODAY newspaper.)

There was also reference to the TalkingCock

Audio and Video are available @ ChannelNewsAsia

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37signals mailing list

August 19th, 2006

Here is the challenge :-)

Find the 37signals mailing list

The Yahoo Group stated @ http://www.37signals.com/mailing.html is invalid

The subscribe box is only available in the previous archive format pages.

I have written to Jason and let us see.

This is a freedback for 37signals.

Update on 2006-10-06-Fri: Jason is listening.. we have a mailing list too

The recent advice by them is “You’re not governed by fate. You can react.” in Google does not render resistance futile

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