Archive for the ‘Etc’ Category

Egg Industry and Whole Earth Singapore

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Emirates’ ad “When was the last time you did something for the first time?” is one of my favorite phrases

Today, I had lunch at Whole Earth located at 76, Peck Seah Street, near the Tanjong Pagar MRT station Exit A

Open daily : 11:30am to 3:00pm and 5:30pm to 9:00pm

No: Eggs or Leek or Garlic

btw – came across a page via @stevepavlina about the egg industry

Now.. Steve has even written a blog post Modern-Day Nazis and provides 4 options

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IF you are interested in some serious egg related truth

THEN click on the following link and watch the video – Warning for mature audiences only !

egg-industry-male-chicks

ELSE

consider baking without eggs

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ps: I did consider titling the post “I found yet another reason for avoiding eggs”

unsaved changes

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Three messages/reminders for today..

(1) death

unsaved changes

(2) parenting

a must watch video for parents.. by Devon White, a professional neurohacker and the lead developer of the human operating system

What Do You Want – The Most Important Question When Brainwashing Your Children

(3) exercise

Are You Fit Enough to Sit in Front of a Computer All Day?

it is not natural to sit in front of a computer all day !!!

soul cleansing on vinayaka chathurthi

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

Today is Vinayaka Chathurthi, the birthday of Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed son of Shiva and Parvati.

Biodegradable Ganesha idols are available at e-coexist.com – “natural and recycled products”

biodegradable ganesh idol from e-coxist.com

photographs of the beaches in Mumbai the day after the visarjan, Manish Vij, Ultra Brown – oh..

The environmental significance of Ganesh Chaturthi

Today is a good time for soul cleansing :-)

GoodGuide Slideshows

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

GoodGuide provides the world’s largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of the products in your home.

20% of yogurts have a food color recommended to be banned

The photos in GoodGuide Slideshows are so beautiful..

btw – came across

  1. 33 of the Healthiest Foods on Earth written by David H. Murdoch – David H. Murdock is Chairman and owner of Dole Food Company, Inc., the world’s largest producer and marketer of fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, packaged and frozen foods. He is also Chairman, CEO and owner of Castle & Cooke, Inc., a leader in real estate development.
  2. Working for Scrooge: 5 Worst Companies for the Right to Associate – Dole is one of the 5.. “Considering its operations in the two most dangerous countries for trade unionists, it is no surprise that Dole has been accused of illegal measures to prevent union formation.”
  3. _why – Eulogy to _why , The Impermanence, Karma, and Bad Behavior of Why The Lucky Stiff

If an iPhone app is good for John Gruber

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

John Gruber’s review of simplenote : ..not only is Simplenote my favorite, it might be my favorite third-party iPhone app, period..

smokingapples.com’s notes apps roundup : ..it’s hard to beat if you’re looking for a clean, simple, stable, syncing notes app..

drdrang’s impressions of simplenote

simplenoteapp.com is so clean

Simplenote

(now to complete the title) It should be good for me :-)

Suggestions

  1. sort notes
  2. if there are lots of empty lines in the note after the title… just display the title only on the overview page instead of the first non-empty line after the title
  3. email – option to just accept an email within the app and send vs. opening the mail app
  4. provide some Paul Graham’s essays as default notes :-)
  5. ..

a tiny thread

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

It seems that @joshua has started a tiny thread

cherokee is beautiful and linode too

tinythread functionality wishlist

  1. up .. down
  2. better yet : collective ordinal priority :-)
  3. wordcloud
  4. search
  5. private threads

best wishes friendfeed

One Percent

Friday, July 31st, 2009

I have been inspired by Yvon Chouinard before

I came across him again a few days ago at the fastcompany youtube channel where he talks about green marketing which lead me to the conversation between him and Tom Brokaw at Zeitgeist 2007

And to an uncorrupted communication from uctv

YC* has founded an alliance 1% For The Planet to keep the earth in business – 1% For The Planet is an alliance of businesses that donate at least 1% of their annual revenues to environmental organizations worldwide.

I have experienced Waterless Urinals in the Workplace.. Have you?

* The YC reminded me of Y Combinator which linked to picwing – I sent them a mail to join the 1% alliance..

Now that we have accountability in place

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Jens does not speak much… But at 30:00 he says “now that we have accountability in place”

That is going to be _a_ killer feature in Wave if not _the_ one!

and playback too

WOW

Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today?

Was Jakob Nielsen an inspiration for Lars and Jens?

Mailing List Usability

The services currently provided by mailing lists should be shown in a communications control panel that would monitor all the things the user is interested in on the Internet. Areas that are hot or have news would be highlighted, and an agent in the user’s computer would prioritize the possible sources of information and show the most important ones with the most real estate. For sure, the communications control panel would collapse threads of discussions into a single object and visualize its activity in a more useful manner than hundreds of scattered lines in your inbox.

Now, it is time to practice the virtue of patience… for a Google Wave Invite

The enterprise implications of Google Wave

Google Wave and BRP

Friday, May 29th, 2009

BRP is Barely Repeatable Process – btw ERP is generally Enterprise Resource Planning and also Easily Repeable Process as well as Electronic Road Pricing in Singapore

Google Wave is… happiness :-)

wave.google.com

Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave.

So Jens proposed a new communications model that presumed all these advances as a starting point, and I was immediately sold. (Jens insists it took him hours to convince me, but I like my version better.)

“Here’s how it works: In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it.”

That reminds me of Dorothy in Jerry Maguire

Shut up, just shut up. You had me at “hello”.

Could Google Wave Redefine Email and Web Communication? – Yes Yes please…

Google Wave: A Complete Guide

A Technical Look at Google Wave

the traditional MIME-based email structure is replaced by wavelets (an atomic message, with multiple documents inside) and operations (a change delta between versions of a message).

What will happen to FriendFeed?

Paramahamsa Nithyananda speeches are inspiring… But he cannot be an SAP cutover manager :-)

Will Google Wave be _the_ BRP dashboard?

ps: Thiru: How _much_ were you surprised and why?

On a scale of 1 to 10, how happy are you right now?

Friday, May 8th, 2009

The Zappos Way Of Managing