Travel is a very subjective matter – everyone has different preferences and appetite for adventure. My preference is for food, sightseeing and light shopping. I also prefer to pack as many places to visit as possible into the itinerary. I call this Fast Travel. As for adventure, i don’t bungee jump nor scale any mountain, … [Read more…]
Food is obviously one of the most blogged about topics on the internet. I’m sure everyday there are new, young bloggers starting their new blogs on food review. I’m not going to be one of those (though I am young) who focus on reviewing food in overpriced, fancy restaurants. On my blog I aim to share with you about food … [Read more…]
The word “spendthrift” has always been confusing to me. It describes a person who is the exact opposite of “thrifty”. Without further investigation one would not know that the meaning of “thrift”, as used in the word “spendthrift”, was prosperity or wealth, which is to say that a spendthrift is someone who spends all his … [Read more…]
Just when it seems SOR is on a downward trend lately, it suddenly jumped to 0.26 from 0.216 (20%) the day before. This highlights the volatility associated with SOR. Sibor on the other hand has also been appreciating, moving up to 0.5 from 0.38 (31.5%). It looks like we’re going to see a steady rise in interest rates.
It doesn’t come as a surprise that Bernanke said that “a highly accommodative policy is needed for the foreseeable future”. This, despite the previous statement he made suggesting that tapering of the stimulus program will start if economic conditions continue to improve. We might as well guess that the next statement he makes will be of a hawkish tone again.
The impending unwinding of QE has been the headline grabber of late. The fear of such an event has already sent stock markets tumbling.
Current contenders for a low cost 9 or 10 inch tablet basically comes down to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (US$329), Kindle Fire HD 8.9 (US$299) and Nook HD+ (US$269). There are cheaper tablets yet of course, but those are probably not worth considering given the typical poor specifications, low build quality and lack of after-sales support.
To submit data to be persisted on a database server from a mobile device, the typical way is to send data via a Http post and have the data persisted by the Http request handler. One can write custom code to do this, but possibly a better way is to leverage on RESTful Web Services.
We normally take for granted that the tap water we use for drinking is safe. It should be, but risks remain in the possibility of contamination as water flows through the water distribution system. While boiling water kills the microorganisms in the water that presents the greatest danger, it does not remove sediments and metals such as lead. In fact, boiling water will increase the concentration of harmful elements should they be present, since part of the water has been vapourized. This is where water filtration comes into the picture. For practical reasons, for the home, it usually comes down to choosing between Ceramic Carbon and Reverse Osmosis water filters.
