I had a favourite pair of light blue shorts when I was younger. Don’t think it was very fashionable but I wore it very often. In fact, I think I wore it every time I had to go down to run errands!
Hello Moto
Unfortunately, my Sony Ericsson went kaput on me one day and I had to use one of the spare phones that was available to me: a gold Motorola D&G Limited Edition phone.
Needless to say, I got plenty of ribbing from my friends and colleagues…
The Duck Song Trilogy
In case you somehow missed out on this trilogy of videos and you have the spare time, you really ought to check them out. Hilarious!
The Duck Song I
The Duck Song II
The Duck Song III
Using Test Driven Development
Although I like the concept of Test Driven Development (TDD), I have yet to apply it in a corporate context as it might be excessively off the beaten path for management to accept comfortably.
As it will be difficult to explain TDD within 3 paragraphs, I have left it to Wikipedia to do the honours. Basically what it entails is to write the test case first before writing the code that is expected to pass the test case.
Ang Moh Conmen
Just because you’re talking to someone with an “ang moh” accent does not mean that you need to be cowed by him. After all, he might be nothing more than a petty thief…
Conmen seem to be taking this tact where they believe their accent is able to convince people into buying questionable investment products. I have already received 2 calls this year where they attempted to get me to invest in some “hot new thing”, but when I refused then they attempted some pressure tactic by throwing in some legalese and threatening to replay a previously recorded conversation to entrap me. Two times they tried this, two times I responded with an effective tactic: hanging up the phone.
Just remember one thing whenever you are approached by anyone to invest in something with your hard-earned money: if it is really such a hot, new thing, why do they need to hard-sell it to this extent?
Friday Mac ice cream
The mood was always great every Friday because a group of us would pay a visit to the Macs at level 1 of the office building and buy ice cream to eat in the office.
Milo spoils easily
In my Uni days when I had to go to the lab to work on my Honours Year Project, I had what I thought was a great idea and decided to bring along a thermos flask of milo that I had prepared at home since the labs were always very cold and it was great to have a hot drink.
It was then that I discovered that Milo turns sour very quickly even when you keep it in a vacuum thermos flask…
Check it out!
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This is a test post
Unfortunately, I don’t have a DEV, SIT or UAT environment, so please excuse this test post if you happen to see it
Designing Experiments
In the course of improving a process or product, you may need to utilise experiments to isolate which are the factors that are most important (remember the 80/20 rule?).
While the design of experiments is usually touched on in University, the concepts may all be forgotten by the time the student is ready to apply them in the commercial world. For a quick refresher, Wikipedia has a succinct article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_of_experiments