One of those “How Things Work” writeup.
Not for the technically faint-hearted.
Use Nintendo Wii remote to control PC/Mac
Are you one that uses your plasma or LCD TV as a monitor.
Do you know that your Wii controller can be used to control the cursor arrow, open/close new programs etc?
If your PC is bluetoothed, you can do so using the WiiRemote
Mac PCs can also do so through a related software called Darwiin-remote.
Windows: http://onakasuita.org/wii/index-e.html
Mac: http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwiin-remote/
That thing you do
Yesterday I went to Takashimaya.
You probably would think “What’s the big deal?”
I went because my wife told me that there was a Sesame Street Christmas performance or roadshow (for lack of a better word) at Taka and Elmo was there.
My boy loves Elmo + Sesame Street Christmas + wife’s pestering = We had to go Takashimaya
So we went.
After our lunch (which comprised of buns, chicken balls and rice), we waited for the show to start.
It was the first time in my life that I actually watched those stuff - in addition, my son had to be carried on my shoulders/arms/back as we had too much barang-barang and in anticipation of the loud music, we decided not to site ourselves near the stage.
Paid more than $5 for parking, but heard from my wife that such kiddy performances cost more than $5, so it was “worth it”.
How kids actually enjoy a couple of costumed characters prancing around the stage, I guess I’ll never know.
The fraility of life
I was stricken with some viral bug and had fever for the past 5 days.
My boy also caught it and his fever hovered around 38.5 degrees for nearly 4 days before subsiding.
However, what struck me most was the horrible freak accident that took the lives of 5 of our Singapore dragonboaters.
What made it even worse was that one of them was my childhood friend, Mr Stephen Loh. My heart aches for his parents and his brothers.
However, if I’d been in their shoes, would I have thought that wearing a life-vest would be “un-macho” in front of the other countries’ paddlers? If I was the sole one who’d believed that we should wear these jackets, would I have been chided?
It was such a waste of five fine lives just because they didn’t put on their life-jackets.
My condolences to the families of all 5 gentlemen and hope that they’ll be able to pick themselves up and continue living for the memories of these men.
Such is the fraility of life
We’re home
My family and I went to Tokyo for a short holiday.
We spent a total of S$3,300 for 5 nights, return airtickets on NWA and all related spending. Not too bad for a “budget” tour.
Photos have been uploaded into Flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alwinwoo/
No to covering special needs children under Medishield: Khaw
Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan has said that covering special needs children for treatment relating to congenital or pre-existing illnesses under Medishield is not a viable option, potentially resulting in excessive premiums paid by policyholders.
Mr Khaw said that it would be unusual for insurers to cover pre-existing illnesses or to cover treatment relating to congenital diseases, (as) to do so will be to load the burden on the rest of the policyholders who may not support a manyfold increase in premiums to take on this additional liability.’
He stressed that ‘if Medishield were to cover pre-existing illnesses, it will encourage potential policyholders to delay subscription until they are sick’.
This, he said, would ‘defeat the whole purpose of insurance, which is based on the sharing of burden, among policy holders with similar risk profiles’.
What’s the correlation between getting potential policyholders to delay subscription and covering new-born children who were born with congenital illness?
If newborn babies don’t get Medisave cover by the end of a reasonable period from birth (eg. 3 months from DOB), then they should be excluded should any congenital illnesses surface. BTW, weren’t all children to be covered by Medisave? Wouldn’t this be like pulling the blanket away from the baby who needs it most?
LANMAP / CurlFTPFS
Looks like a cool utility - can produce a LAN map in GUI format.
Works for Windows and Linux.
http://www.parseerror.com/lanmap/
CurlFTPFS mounts a remote FTP location as local subdirectory.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/curlftpfs
Works for Windows and Linux.
http://www.parseerror.com/lanmap/
CurlFTPFS mounts a remote FTP location as local subdirectory.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/curlftpfs
Zonbu Mini-PC
For just $99, you can now buy a desktop computer that’s preloaded with full versions of 20 popular types of software. This computer comes with free, automatic, online backup of your files, and a design that cuts energy use way below that of a standard computer.
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