This is the fried hokkien mee at Dover Road coffee shop, near the market. I tried it today because someone told me it was good. I prefer the one in the market though.
— Posted from my N97 Share Online.
That’s what I was thinking, ERP for pedestrian crossings, when I came across an article in the Straits Times a couple of days ago. Tap & Cross. Or perhaps Tap, Deduct, and Cross. Yet another interesting revenue generating mechanism for our LTA. Except that it won’t really work, of course, since pedestrians will just cross illegally without using a designated pedestrian crossing. Our pedestrians are often already preferring to jaywalk anyway (and there are times they really behave like the roads are meant for pedestrians).
I was recently invited to explore Citibank’s newly launched mobile banking services. It’s a nice and convenient way to experience banking services while on-the-go. One of these is Citi Mobile, which is basically a mobile web friendly version of their banking website at http://www.citibank.com.sg/, the same URL as their regular banking website. Like their regular banking website, Citi Mobile provides access to transactional banking services.
It’s nice that there is not another URL to remember (although honestly if you’ve bookmarked it once it is not too much of a hassle anyway). You will be served a web-optimized version of the website when you visit the URL from a mobile device, otherwise you get the full blown regular website when you visit from a computer. Citi Mobile has been specifically optimized for the iPhone and Nokia E71 mobile phones, and it does look beautiful in the iPhone screenshots I’ve seen. But it’ll work well on other mobile devices too, like the Nokia N97 that I use. It’s not as pretty on my Nokia N97, particularly since it doesn’t make full use of the extra-wide screen when in landscape orientation, but, it gets the job done.
I recently attended a gathering of people who have some interests in Linux. I was quite surprised by the big turnout. I believe the organizers themselves did not think there would be such a big interest, because they had booked too small a meeting venue. The room was too small, and in my opinion, their efforts to move aside the tables did little to alleviate the congestion. I guess we all underestimated the level of interest in Linux, unless, perhaps people were there just to check out the level of interest in Linux.
Nasi Lemak is one of the many favourite foods of Singaporeans. It’s one of mine too. The first photo here is of the Nasi Lemak from Old Town White Coffee. The ikan bilis is really nice and crunchy, and the fried chicken wing is nicely fried and juicy. Our baby Vanessa likes the cracker, the fried chicken wing, the rice and the ikan bilis (in roughly that order), so when I share the Nasi Lemak with her, I end up with not much left to eat, except perhaps for the sambal chilli.
They’ve waited a long time. For iPhone customers on the AT&T network, finally, MMS has arrived. You’d have thought that the US would be more technologically advanced in these sort of things, but MMS has only just rolled out on 25 September 2009 for them. Yeah, all of us in the rest of the world… MMS is nothing new.
Let me hao lian about my personal port number. I was just reading about CARP, the Common Address Resolution Protocol, this afternoon and learnt about how they failed to secure a protocol number from IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), so they had to hijack someone else’s protocol number. Then I remembered how I secured for myself a port number from IANA. I know, a port number is not quite the same thing as a protocol number, but still, it is something interesting and notable to look back on.
I recently bought a copy of Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition. It carries a street price of about S$120 in Singapore, which is about the same as what you can get off from Amazon (US$84.99). I get to install it on up to three computers, so actually each installation costs me just S$40 (under US$30).
So I was a little irked to find that NeoOffice, which is based on the OpenOffice open source office software, the somewhat equivalent of Microsoft Office, wants up to US$100 for early access to their latest software release. It’s something they call the Early Access Program.
It’s an interesting thought. What if one day, you select a university education by comparing prices, facilities, location, bundled freebies, guarantees, loan schemes, and reviews? What if one day, your university education is purchased just like you purchase other expensive consumer product or service? Like a car, or a 1 year body slimming package? Universities go out to advertise their courses and degrees, offering promotions and discounts, frequent flyer miles, free computers?
Apple’s Snow Leopard must really have put the pressure on Windows 7. Microsoft has announced a new educational pricing of just US$30. Yes, that matches Snow Leopard’s retail price of just US$29. But Microsoft’s offer applies only to college and university students, and the offer lasts till 3rd January 2009. I imagine that there will be similar offer available in Singapore too.
I think we had 11 oysters each, from The Line restaurant at Shangri-la Hotel. It's a big buffet with plenty of food.
Lunch at Lerk Thai some weekends ago.
