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This year we welcome freshmen to the school that’s 8th in Computer Science and Information Systems according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2013. I don’t know if we were very good at scoring points, or ...
Category: Miscellaneous
Any other thing under the sun.
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It’s our 48th National Day today. For some reasons, the festivities this year seems to be somewhat muted. I don’t think it’s got to do with the super long weekend where everyone has gone overseas for a short ...
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The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC), which comprises Google, Facebook, eBay, Yahoo and Salesforce, blasts our Media Development Authority’s (MDA) new licensing requirements for Internet news sites. A strongly worded letter ...
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The haze in Singapore reached record levels last month, hitting a 3-hour PSI reading of 401 on 21st June. Many of us were a little disappointed at the “laggy” PSI reports provided by our National Environment Agency, ...
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The present haze situation we’re facing, which set new records earlier this week, has revealed something worrying about our government. Ministers Vivian Balakrishnan, Grace Fu, and Ng Eng Hen all echoed the same message, ...
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I think we can say that we’re sort of experiencing a national emergency now. The PSI readings have reached hazardous levels since last night. More interestingly, you should have realised that you often feel that the haze ...
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I was attending a course on crisis management earlier this week. It’s great to know how much planning has gone into crisis and emergency management at my workplace. A big organisation such as where I work in would come ...
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Today, MDA’s new requirement for news websites to be licensed takes effect. Today, we all woke up and found that pretty much everything online has stayed about the same. In particular, Yahoo News Singapore, one of the sites ...
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The buzz in the Singapore Internet community this week is about MDA’s new licensing requirements for news websites. Many people were outraged by the move. Some people, such as bloggers, see the new updated licensing ...
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A recent anonymous post, on a certain social media website, lamented about the quality of our Computing graduates. The poster gave examples on how some are unable to create/code websites, and the poor quality of released ...