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Of Singapore policy changes in allowing 18 years old to start business instead of at 21. So what about National Service?

Are we lucky that Wireless@SG is free?

In: Geek, Interesting, News

Law.com have a interesting article about some Telcos in the States sueing cities for wanting to build publicly owned optical systems to bring high speed internet access, telephone and even cable television to its people.

No Love for VueStar

In: Geek, Interesting, News, Singapore

VueStar sues. A slightly more in detail look at their patent. And IPOS, what had you done to us.

BayWords: Not BayWatch in Words

In: Blogging, Geek, Interesting, News, Websites

The Pirate Bay is launching a free blogging service called BayWords. It protect freedom of speech and the site is void of censorship if the blog is within Swedish Laws.

demonoid is back

In: Geek, News

Demonoid returns. The best file sharing network is back online. Farewell Deimos and welcome Umlauf.

Rednano : updates from the web

In: News, Singapore

Rednano, more search test on the Singapore Search Engine plus its entry on Killerstartup and opinions on an interview with Paul Jensen, Rednano’s CEO.

Google App Engine In Brief

In: Geek, News

Brief first look at the newly announced Google App Engine. Another time sink for developers! BigTable, GFS and the difference APIs to name a few.

Rednano.sg : A Second Look

In: News, Singapore

Okay, I did a post about rednano just a post back. Seems it was nothing good to be said about it. But I did a bit more checks and search. The search results were still bad. And I did find a couple of items that should be of interest.
First of all, I was trying to [...]

Rednano.sg : First Impressions

In: Geek, News, Singapore

The papers reported that SPH (Singapore Press Holdings) launched their and the local “first” local search engine. Going by the name Rednano. It can be found at Rednano.com and Rednano.sg.

I do like the idea of having a localised search engine. That will be really useful should we be searching for local history, local business or [...]

NTU hostel to be 3 in 1 room?

In: News, Random

It came as much as a shock and as a surprise when the news reported that NTU (Nanyang Technological University is going to convert a third of their double rooms into triple sharing rooms.

Formerly from NTU, I am not too sure how the student body might react. But it should be the same story once [...]

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ThinkingNectar talks about the interest of Chin Yong, a PHP developer residing in Singapore. Life, society, and codes should entails most of what goes between the ears of this Kopi-O drinker.

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