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Sunday, July 06, 2014 - 21:49 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

It's The Month Of July

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Felt a bit off midway through the week, but got through the doctoral seminar, during which I realised how easy it is to assume everyone is conversant in the area being covered (if not quite ELI5, as is so often requested online nowadays), and also how quickly one and a half hours can pass by. Even had a couple guys sit in on it, which was unexpected. Well, this is one journey that's coming to an end...

In somewhat-related news, there might be a new cure for diabetes (paper), and a little closer to home, we've launched our first (nano-)satellite! Alright, so it was piggybacked up on an Indian rocket, but we've gotta start somewhere. I had always thought it would be cute if someone could get a small robot to plop a tiny flag on the Moon - how cheaply could that be done, maybe even with existing tech, I wonder.

Perhaps in the region of S$26.5 million, which was the successful tender price for a "national database" for the local social service sector. As a sometime-creator of such websites, I have never quite figured out how such fees could come about, which recalls the old overpriced military screwdriver joke - it not only screws them in, it also takes them out! Alright, alright, functional sites aren't that easy to come by...

Customers are, however, getting more discerning, seeing as how a prominent lawyer has just had his S$1 million bill reduced to S$370k - which would not have been too eyebrow-raising, other than for the fact that it was incurred in prosecuting a no less prominent surgeon for herself overcharging. The conclusion here, then, seems to be that one doesn't get to be prominent by understatement.

To a not-inconsiderable section of netizens, what was even more interesting was that the mainstream media somehow completely neglected to mention that the lawyer is an incumbent MP. Well, perhaps the fact is not completely pertinent to the case, but one still has a nagging suspicion that his party affiliation would have been splashed all over the article had his shirt been of a different colour...

In the World Cup, our finalist picks Germany and the Netherlands went through... but so did Brazil and Argentina, whom we didn't fancy, but it appears that pedigree counts for a lot in tournaments. Supposedly, one can beat the bookies with enough preparation (which some players could have had more of, in the art of arm-folding) - or alternatively just "arranging" it, which is a bit of a local specialty (and likely the only way we'll get mentioned in the same breath as the World Cup, other than for supplying referees)

Also, it turned out that a VPN was not necessary for streaming from BBC/ITV after all, with ITV especially to be commended for its quality/latency, which is apparently not a guarantee from our Most Successful Price-Gougers even after coughing up over a hundred bucks; indeed, it seems that they are arbitrarily plugging a bunch of eights on their asking price for commercial screenings - lucky for them, I'd say.

Finally, on the matter of colours and dots, there's been a pretty benign push-pull going on between the gender-open Pinks and a religious... oops, pro-family coalition of Whites, who have this time managed to agree. Still, they've been fairly reasonable about it, and their head honcho has been roughing up the mob, so some respect is due here; now, if they could just tone down the touching tales...


Now you know how they get the eagles to tear up
(Source: explosm.net)




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