Thanks for a fun trip guys. Recorded on a great camera, average sound sampling. Or watch on youtube. Now I need to find that better recorded official video with the entire concert…
Archive for November, 2009
Mendelssohn and Beyond – A midsummer’s night dream
If you ever wonder what music leads to the famous wedding march you hear in every wedding, this is it. Come enjoy a classic. If you can’t see the image, it’s on Dec 3, 7:30 at Esplanade concert hall. Btw I got some discount tickets… first come first serve
A formula that can plot it own image!
Source: mathworld.wolfram.com/TuppersSelf-ReferentialFormula.html The best self-referential formula I can come up with today is 1, plotted over some finite x and result in chinese This is amazing! At first I couldn’t believe it, until auditing and seeing it is action written in javascript. No wonder I didn’t do well in math in college…
Ideas = Influence * Engagement
How to find all the best ideas in the world online? One would think it’s simple. Step 1: be influential, with authority comes power and people will flock to you. Step 2: be engaging, ask people for their ideas and share your thoughts in a way that benefits both parties. (comment from a reader of [...]
AWS has finally chosen Singapore for Asian availability zone
The Cloud Has Landed! http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/11/12/aws-asia/ This courting must be at least 5 years long. 5 years ago when I was working there I was already trying to hook up the infrastructure guys with some of the data center operators in Singapore. The conversation was long, and that time it was overshadowed by the positivity of [...]
AppZone ala AppStore@SG soft launch
Officially supposed to launch later today, it seems like the site is already up and running. Check out www.singtel.com/appzone. At a glance, I couldn’t find an equivalent of the BBoM usage thing that was pulled from Apple AppStore earlier though.
Next Gen Services Innovative Programme (NGSIP)
Everyone look here. This is important. If you’re building something that remotely looks like something that would be useful in the NBN era, quickly submit a proposal to this Call For Proposal. The deadline is next week. Questions ask IDA NGSIP is the icing on the NBN cake. May the best icing wins
SingTel MyBill
Foolamak – finally found the catch. Upon activation of SingTel myBill, a) All the billing account(s) under your NRIC/FIN will be automatically set to paperless bill. An email notification will be sent to your registered email address when the next bill is generated and the electronic billing information is ready for viewing. b) If you [...]
How to lead like great conductors
In the many years playing with an orchestra / band, I’ve always found that conductors plays a large part in making a group “tick”, i.e. going beyond what individual players are capable off, bringing out the 2 + 2 = 5 kind of effect in music making. This TED talk gives a fairly laymen explanation [...]











