I’ve been using Google Analytics for a while, and was absolutely thrilled to hear they were upgrading the services. After waiting with bated breath for a few days, my account was upgraded. After a quick look-over, here’s my take on it. The new user interface is lovely! Don’t think Google is only good at back …
Month: May 2007
The Wall Street Journal reports Wal-Mart’s biggest sales decline in 28 years. Factors cited also affected other retailers – bad weather, a change in the National Retail Federation’s financial reporting timeline, tax refund spending, higher gas prices. Which leaves us with another factor – generally questionable business strategies.
I am working on more detailed blog posts on the following topics, which are of great /increasing interest to me: Web 2.0 – How it is the mindset (of sharing, collaboration, contribution etc) and not just the technology that makes something truly Web 2.0 How planning to have ‘viral marketing’ can quite often be an …
I spent a couple of hours yesterday cleaning some old website’s code that was handed over to me for temporary maintenance. It is the year 2007 but people are still using nested tables to arrange their text. Imagine a three-column table, with spacer GIFs in the right and left columns and the body text inside …
I just contributed my first review to Hungrygowhere.com after dining at another up-and-coming Italian restaurant with Italian chef and local wife, Trattoria Lafiandra. Read my review here.
There’s a new Web 2.0 service called Fleck, which lets you make annotations on websites in a graphical format. For starters, here’s what I did for my own blog. Fleck will probably be useful in making notes on academic websites and other sources which currently do not have any feedback mechanism, such as the comments …
I just read this letter in the Straits Times forum and wholly agree with it. The writer notes that while Singapore has had an edge against the Chinese so far because we are more fluent in English, this gap is quickly eroding. Also, as other forum writers have noted, we are required to be bilingual, …
More drummer drama I certainly hope this isn’t a curse, but we nearly lost our (third) drummer today. My band, the Moon Jumpers, met up for a practice session this evening. However, our drummer, J, informed me he was going to be late. So we practised using pre-programmed beats (which in a way was good …
There I was, happily ranting away about Web Standards again when Ryan Lin pointed out that my page had XHTML errors. Eep! How did that happen? Firstly, I missed a couple of stray ampersands in my ‘Asides’ column. I’m usually quite picky with invalid URLs, but was so excited to hear that Prince William was …
Over the weekend, friends told me of a Singaporean woman who recently died due to overwork. The woman, May Leong, had even written on her blog about her overwork before she died. I asked my friends to send me the article … and they did. It’s titled ‘Vitamin M won’t cure my health‘ from the …