From boing boingGoogle Accelerator is bad news for Web apps

Google Accelerator wreaks havoc on Web-apps by "clicking every link" on
every control screen in order to cache it -- so it also ends up
clicking on "Delete my account" and "Launch pre-emptive nuclear
strike," etc.

The accelerator scours a page and prefetches the
content behind each link. This gives the illusion of pages loading

SINGAPORE: FEES FOR HIRING FOREIGN WORKERS TO INCREASE

The Singapore Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has announced two
changes to regulations regarding the hiring of foreign workers.  The changes
will affect the percentage of foreign workers allowed to be employed by
companies in Singapore
and will also increase the skilled foreign worker levy. These amendments will
be effective starting July 1, 2005.

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor, of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family.He would miss the pay cheque, but he needed to retire. They could get by. The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favour. The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way to end his career.

Authority and The Milgram Experiments

Reading the book Small World by Mark Buchanan (American Scientist Review)lent
to me by Jerry Argyriou, I know this will be one of the many posts I
blog on about the book. Simply amazing, solid hard empirical evidence
on social networks.

According to marketers who are admitted reluctant converts to Six Sigma, there are a few things the Black Belts can do to ensure a faster adoption curve and achieve better results within marketing.

1. Learn the language. Six Sigma is as foreign a language to most marketers as marketing is to Six Sigma. If your background is in operations, engineering, IT, finance, or any related functional area, you had an easier time absorbing the concepts and lexicon of Six Sigma than the marketers will. Your ability to understand the key drivers and challenges of the marketing department will springboard your acceptance. You need to make the effort first.

I found this today, brilliant resource on Singapore bloggers and traction towards more:
from: ItSeemstoMe

Here is a micro blogroll of some neat Singapore blogs to check out:

Mr Brown

My Very Own Job

Popagandhi

XiaXue

Online Traction-

Some people call it gossip, others sneer and say it is nothing more
than a fleeting trend. I'm still suffering with the flu to think too
much on my own answer but I thought this piece by Dan Gilmore was
priceless. -KevinFrom Dan Gilmore: Listening Too MuchIn
the 1980s, when the online possibilities of news publishing were
starting to become clearer, a smart man told me something that I
started telling other journalists: "One of these days, we're going to find out what people actually want to read."

Its happening..... the Omipresent Depression and Theft of Liberty and Rights Organisation (ODTLRO) ie the government are at it again. Here in Oz, they are discovering new ways to tax their trapped and fed up citizens. Since the introduction of the GST (Goods and Services Tax) of 10% to the base cost of everything, new taxes have been rearing their oh so ugly heads an average of about 1 every 5-6 months. As a result, Australia is now one of the heaviest taxed countries in the world. A few years back the ODTLRO found themselves with a billion dollar budget surplus and only a few months to the end of the financial year.

I saw this in Cool Tools and thought I would share

Canary Digital Wireless Hotspotter

Best Wi-Fi hotspot finder

Canary's hot spot finder is the best of the several stand-alone
Wi-Fi detectors that I've tried -- three of which I've gone so far as
to purchase. The Canary uses AAA batteries, rather than the button
cells that some detectors do (harder to replace in a pinch);
consequently it's not quite as svelte as some, but the extra goodies
are worth the chubbier, still-palmable housing. Canary's unit scrolls
across its 12-character LCD display the name, channel and signal
strength (4 bars is the highest) of the networks it finds, which makes
it truly useful for checking where your own access point's signal
reaches.

When you start you own business, you are beginning a "brand," if you will. The product has a name. There may be a reputation associated with the product — a documented history of achievements, accolades, failures and more. Interestingly enough, this product has the same name as you when you go to introduce yourself to a potential client, a possible future employer, a peer with whom you may one day collaborate or a vendor who will be able to help you out of a bind.

In their book Off-The-Wall Marketing Ideas, Nancy Michaels and Debbi J. Karpowicz stress the importance of making a good first impression in any industry. They write, "As a small business owner, you become the embodiment of your company; you also become a public person, which has its ramifications. Whether you are running a grocery store — or a business meeting — it is important that you create a positive reflection of your company."