Gonna take a shower after this post. Went home to clean up the place so that it will be spick and span. Lee-Ann will be going for her first swim tomorrow!
While I was sweeping the floor, I found a well-preserved dried lizard. Probably it starved to death as it couldn’t find any food to eat.
Just finished a conference call. The call had to be at this late hour as one of the participants is from the U.S.
Gonna pack up my stuff and head home soon.
Think BB should be asleep by now…
It was almost amusing to see everyone trying to cash out their policies with AIA when they heard of the first sign of trouble with AIG, the parent company. (I only found it almost amusing because I hold a policy at AIA and I was hoping that the run wouldn’t bring it down)
To those who are better educated and have a basic foundation in finance, making a run at a financial institution — in this case an insurer — at the first hint of rumours about its demise is a surefire way to ensure a downward spiral to oblivion. Most financial institutions are highly leveraged, so if people start to make a run and withdraw money, the financial institutions may have no choice but to source for loans or sell off assets to maintain a minimal level of liquidity. In short, don’t make a run unless you are extremely sure that logic — not fear — is guiding your actions. (But of course, if every father, mother, son is making a run, then you will have no choice but to make a run as well since logic no longer rules the mob)
Anyway, for a company like AIG, it is unlikely that the US Government will even allow it to fail as it will void the insurance policies of tons of Americans and result in social turmoil. They will not allow this to happen in any given year, much less a period so close to elections.
One of the earliest memories I have is of my parents bringing me and my sister down to Seletar Reservoir for a photo-taking session. I can actually recall running around the place although nothing special at all happened that day. It was just a normal family outing.
It’s amazing how seemingly insignificant events like this — in the adult’s perspective — can actually somehow leave an impact on a child’s memory. I hope I can keep this in mind as I bring up my baby daughter. Something that is i think is seemingly insignificant may leave a deep imprint on her life somehow…
One of the tools that I absolutely cannot live without at work is Freemind, the open source mind mapping tool.
In my previous workplace, I was only assigned a desktop, so I was unable to utilise Freemind fully. Now when I have my own notebook, I have unleashed the full usefulness of the tool: organising my thoughts, note-taking during meetings, etc.
Why don’t you try it out for yourself? It’s really easy to use and before long you’ll also find it indisposable. Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemind/ to download a copy and try it out yourself!
Food terrorism has got to stop. Fake food is a terrible thing to do, and unfortunately, there are some unscrupulous individuals and businesses who take advantage of this basic human need. Capitalism has seriously reared its ugly head when people’s lives are risked for the sake of earning a buck. I do not wish ill upon those who have profited from their sick and twisted dealings, but I hope that their conscience will strike them. Hard.
Note that I did not specifically mention that Chinese were the culprits. Without having any first hand information myself, it might even be the case that the Chinese are the victims of some inept or unethical overseas management! Who is to say that some big-shot manager from outside of China did not force the Chinese factory into adding melamine to their food products? Until investigations are complete, 三鹿 should be assumed to be innocent until proven guilty.
Being a parent myself, I can understand the anguish and turmoil that the Chinese parents are facing. Regardless of whose fault it is, the Chinese government should tighten up food safety laws and prevent people — their own citizens especially — from suffering due to the selfish motives of others. One death due to food poisoning is one unnecessary death to many.
Saw this strange sight in the skies. It gives you a very good idea of how cloudy it was. That brilliant white patch in the sky is the only place where there were no clouds and the Sun was able to shine through!
You can see the links on the right side of the home page now.
I’m gonna have to shower soon. Gonna have a family outing once LA wakes up from her noon nap.
If you’re involved in the testing process for a web application and you use Internet Explorer for testing, one of the first things that you will need to do is to turn off “friendly HTTP error messages”. This option is turned on by default and I can understand why Microsoft did it because most people are ordinary consumers who won’t be bothered with deciphering the error messages that the server throws back.
Turning this option off will display the error message returned from the server in all its techno-geek glory that only IT people can decipher. Incidentally, these error messages are also often useful when testing. For instance, Weblogic Server Developer License only allows 5 unique IP addresses and it will inform you via the error message if you should exceed that. However, if friendly HTTP is on, you will only know that access has been denied without knowing the reason.
If you have trouble finding this option in your IE options, I’ve reproduced a screenshot below.
昨天我的经理对我说：“我认识了你两个月了可是还没有听到你讲华语。” 我就静静地看着她。 “You wouldn’t want to hear me speak Mandarin” 我对这她说。
她下一句令我很惊讶：“You must be from ACS…”
她是怎么猜中的呢？？？ ;p