tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-267259232024-02-08T21:56:53.231+08:00Good For NothingNews, current affairs, IT, sci/tech, design stuffGood For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.comBlogger182125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-81128445671293921372010-02-18T00:20:00.003+08:002010-02-18T00:23:51.572+08:00Welfare in Singapore - The stingy nannyThe city-state stays strict with the needy (from The Economist) Fond of having the last word, Singapore's government can nevertheless be flexible. Who would have thought it would be building casinos? But one policy that shows no sign of reversing is Singapore’s antipathy towards public welfare. The state’s attitude can be simply put: being poor here is your own fault. Citizens are obliged to saveGood For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-49470498318791343742010-01-14T02:33:00.005+08:002010-01-14T03:05:16.147+08:00Open eyes & minds wide when voting for this 1-party Singapore government again in 2010Look all around you, foreigners are everywhere, any corner you go, foreign workers everywhere in this pathetic island-state known as Singapore.
For every 4 persons in this island, 1 is a foreigner. Singapore opened gates so damn wide for these foreign workers from anywhere. Some called them foreign talent(FT) but I'll say most are foreign trash(FT)!
Seems like this governmt places more priority Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-13222535972879415362009-10-26T21:24:00.005+08:002009-10-27T21:17:29.685+08:00Singapore's Geylang, a place where authority/police doesn't matterGeylang is a popular red-light district in Singapore. I've been to this place many times to eat some good food here, to look at legal & illegal prostitutes, to observe various illegal activities happening only in Geylang. Do go during night time as everything seems normal & boring during day time, it's when darkness sets in & the whole place becomes alive & exciting.
Very few Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-37283638761568805432009-06-30T23:02:00.000+08:002009-06-30T23:03:15.418+08:00How Old Do You Feel? It Depends on Your AgeThe older people become, the younger they feel and the more likely they are to see “old age” as a time occurring later in life, according to a national survey on aging released on Monday.
“There’s a saying that you’re never too old to feel young, and boy, have older Americans today taken that one to heart,” said Paul Taylor, executive vice president with the Pew Research Center and the survey’s Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-82614069352132825202009-06-30T22:57:00.000+08:002009-06-30T22:58:19.022+08:00Cybercrime spreads on FacebookCybercrime is rapidly spreading on Facebook as fraudsters prey on users who think the world's top social networking site is a safe haven on the Internet. Lisa Severens, a clinical trials manager from Worcester, Massachusetts, learned the hard way. A virus took control of her laptop and started sending pornographic photos to colleagues.
"I was mortified about having to deal with it at work," said Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-7395563395232613792009-06-30T22:56:00.002+08:002009-06-30T22:56:58.125+08:00Global food supply far from secure-farming expertAfrica's farmers need help to access loans, fertiliser and export markets to avoid future food supply crises caused by climate change and commodities speculation, a top agricultural expert said on Tuesday.
Wheat, rice and maize prices have fallen sharply from their 2008 highs, when protests broke out across the developing world over unaffordable staple foods and countries imposed export bans to Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-82459747745315787452009-06-30T22:53:00.000+08:002009-06-30T22:55:42.905+08:00Why the BRICS like AfricaThere is little doubt that the BRICs — Brazil, Russia, India and China — have become big players in Africa. According to Standard Bank of South Africa, BRIC trade with the continent has snowballed from just $16 billion in 2000 to $157 billion last year. That is a 33 percent compounded annual growth rate. What is behind this? At one level, the BRICs, as they grow, are clearly recognising Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-66033236891375564562009-06-30T22:51:00.000+08:002009-06-30T22:53:06.000+08:00Google, YouTube Give Citizen Journalists New ToolsGoogle has a firm grip on the news industry. With Google News, its monstrous news aggregator, and examples such as the recent explosion of citizen journalism covering the conflict in Iran, Google is giving traditional print journalism a run for its money. Now it hopes to partner with some big names in news to create a community of journalists called The YouTube Reporters' Center, a project that Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-68931282504500962412009-06-30T22:50:00.001+08:002009-06-30T22:51:47.947+08:00Cool Search Engines That Are Not GoogleHow do you find a new search engine if all you know is Google? Typing “search engine” into the usual box might lead you to Microsoft’s newly launched Bing, the combined search at Dogpile, or the former king of search, Altavista.
But for those willing to dig around, searching for search engines can reveal a treasure trove: The net is rich with specialized search services, all trying to find a way Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-53201846068223364902009-04-11T00:21:00.000+08:002009-04-11T00:23:57.017+08:00Eye 'compensates for blind spot'Partially sighted and registered blind people can be taught to read and see faces again using the undamaged parts of their eyes, say experts. When only the central vision is lost, as with the leading cause of blindness, age-related macular degeneration, peripheral vision remains intact.
And patients can be taught to exploit this, the Macular Disease Society says. It has developed a training Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-14534739089165332632008-10-02T14:10:00.001+08:002008-10-02T14:11:40.445+08:00Singapore - What costs will go up next ?Transport costs go up...
Utility costs go up...
Next to go up ?
PM, ministers & MPs pay to go up again next ?Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-44711652326661015442008-10-02T14:08:00.000+08:002008-10-02T14:10:00.650+08:00Electricity tariffs up 5 cents Tue, Sep 30, 2008my paper
New rate is 30 cents per kWh but rebates will more than offset rise. -myp
By Marcel Lee Pereira
FROM tomorrow, taxi driver Amir Hamzah will keep his water heater switched off, and take cold showers instead.
That's when the highest electricity tariffs since 2001 will kick in, and Mr Amir, 33, his wife and three-year-old son - who live in a Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-25803858133086830452008-10-02T14:01:00.002+08:002008-10-02T14:08:42.540+08:00Singapore - Transport fares go up again!Transport fares go uo in Oct 2008.
Should SBS & SMRT ask themself this question - are their bus drivers & staff providing quality service to us, public taking transport daily to work... ?
What do SBS & SMRT expect fare-paying public to do when drivers kept their golden mouths shut & don't even make the effort to ask people who are fearful of ghosts at the back of the bus ?
When Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-13431609130733154472008-10-02T13:55:00.000+08:002008-10-02T14:01:11.697+08:00Singapore transport fares - Why raise fares now ?Why raise fares now ?Mon, Sep 15, 2008The Straits Times
Public Transport Council has announced new fares for transport from Oct 1. One journalist gets a few pressing questions answered. -ST Maria Almenoar
THE Public Transport Council (PTC) yesterday announced new fares for public transport, which will take effecton Oct 1.
MARIA ALMENOAR gets the answers to commuters' pressing questions.
With Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-14480061786717439032008-08-14T13:53:00.000+08:002008-08-14T13:54:09.209+08:00Running can slow aging processRegular running slows the effects of aging claim scientists who tracked 500 running grannies for more than 20 years. The study found people who run are less likely to have disabilities in old age and will on average live longer than their non running OAP friends. In 1984 researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine started following 538 over 50s who ran average of about four hours a Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-34099899963009550472008-08-14T13:51:00.000+08:002008-08-14T13:53:12.852+08:00Running May Help You Live Longer and HealthierRun for your life! It is never too late to start running, a new study finds. Running may help you to not only live longer, but also live free of disabilities. The study, performed by Stanford University School of Medicine, studied the benefits of running. The researchers based their study on two groups of people 50 and older, a group of runners and non-runners that were monitored for over two Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-5277136467334306492008-08-14T13:50:00.000+08:002008-08-14T13:51:26.995+08:00Prescriptions for Health, the Environmental KindIn a bright studio at New York University, Natalie Jeremijenko welcomes visitors to her environmental health clinic. She wears a white lab coat with a rotated red cross on the pocket. A clipboard with intake forms hangs by the door. Inside, circuit boards, respirators, light bulbs, bike helmets and books on green design clutter the high shelves. In front of a bamboo consultation desk sits a mock Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-32821612586327475382008-08-14T13:49:00.000+08:002008-08-14T13:50:18.331+08:00Sorting Out Coffee’s ContradictionsWhen Howard D. Schultz in 1985 founded the company that would become the wildly successful Starbucks chain, no financial adviser had to tell him that coffee was America’s leading beverage and caffeine its most widely used drug. The millions of customers who flock to Starbucks to order a double espresso, latte or coffee grande attest daily to his assessment of American passions. Although the Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-76491127110240373212008-08-14T13:47:00.000+08:002008-08-14T13:48:56.858+08:00To Stretch or Not to Stretch? The Answer Is ElasticThey’re like one of my running partners, Claire Brown, a 35-year-old triathlete. “I always feel like, well, athletes should do yoga,” Claire said. “It’s supposed to be really good for running, and when I do it regularly, it does loosen up my hips and make me feel better for running.” Yet she puts off going to yoga. “It shouldn’t feel like an obligation, but it always does,” Claire said. “The goodGood For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-22076785396265775802008-08-14T13:46:00.000+08:002008-08-14T13:47:26.611+08:00Bill Gates: Privacy a 'challenge' as software advancesAs software gets more powerful, privacy issues pose an "interesting software challenge," says Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Recounting a short history of software development, Gates said innovations in natural interaction technology are making technology more pervasive. "When interaction gets more natural, computers can be everywhere to listen to you," he said, adding that "society will have to Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-18553000612667724822008-08-14T13:45:00.000+08:002008-08-14T13:46:18.248+08:00Intel 'Turbo Memory' tries to speed up WindowsIntel's newest version of Turbo Memory is trying to do what Windows doesn't do: transparently optimize Windows for flash memory storage. At the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., Intel will be demonstrating its latest version of Turbo Memory based on flash memory to accelerate application performance in Windows. Intel is offering a "dashboard" for Windows that allows the user to choose Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-79197900712269561892008-08-14T13:44:00.001+08:002008-08-14T13:44:53.036+08:00Olympic Games take the gold in the workplaceOlympic Games in Beijing is proving to be a hit in the workplace. Traffic to Olympics-related Web sites soared Monday, the first full workday after the official opening of the games Friday, according to numbers released Wednesday by Nielsen Online. More than 2 million people visited the video section of NBCOlympics.com, up nearly 140 percent from Sunday when the site had about 858,000 visitors, Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-85090408415195754552008-08-14T13:42:00.001+08:002008-08-14T13:43:37.043+08:00China Steps Up Scrutiny of a Minority in BeijingEvery morning at 9 a.m., they are at his door. The police come to the small room the young Uighur cook shares with several other Uighurs to check their papers — and to see if there are new arrivals from his homeland of Xinjiang. He has lived here for six years, peaceably and happily. But in the days preceding the Olympics, things changed. The police had been watching him even before recent Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-40664239741494746972008-08-14T13:41:00.000+08:002008-08-14T13:42:05.116+08:00Yahoo - Fire EagleYahoo executive Tom Coates recently went to England and rendezvoused with more than 100 random friends who just happened to be in Old Blighty as well. Coates found them thanks to Fire Eagle, a new database service Yahoo launched Tuesday. Fire Eagle scoops up real-world location information the way Web crawlers swallow Web pages and dishes it out to whatever services an individual selects. It is Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26725923.post-24043229829649145782008-08-14T13:39:00.000+08:002008-08-14T13:40:45.429+08:00Olympics Are A Waste Of MoneyCommunist regime has spent billions on lavish sports venues, the world's biggest airport terminal, and a huge security operation. All this while sweatshop conditions are widespread and millions are still homeless after May's deadly earthquake in the region. Of course, the official line is the country’s 1.3 billion people are delighted that the Games have arrived. And the groundswell of pride and Good For Nothinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05587920849682019515noreply@blogger.com0