Which do you buy? A Full Speed or High Speed USB drive? This article tells it all:

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USB supports three data rates:

A Low Speed (USB 1.1, USB 2.0) rate of 1.5 Mbit/s (187 kB/s) that is mostly used for Human Interface Devices (HID) such as keyboards, mice, and joysticks.

A Full Speed (USB 1.1, USB 2.0)
rate of 12 Mbit/s (1.5 MB/s). Most USB Hubs support Full
Speed.

A Hi-Speed (USB 2.0) rate of 480 Mbit/s (60 MB/s).

A Super-Speed (USB 3.0) rate of 4.8 Gbit/s (600
MB/s).

The USB 3.0 specification will be released by Intel and its
partners in mid 2008 according to early reports from CNET news.
According to Intel, bus speeds will be 10 times faster than USB 2.0 due
to the inclusion of a fiber optic link that works with traditional
copper connectors. Products using the 3.0 specification are likely to
arrive in 2009 or 2010.

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/

Not for the technically faint-hearted.

http://www.wiili.org/index.php/Wiimote

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.

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

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?

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.

Will be preparing the photos for uploading

A recent Singapore National Employers Federation (Snef) survey of 120 companies showed that the number of job applications that companies received for positions they had advertised fell by 40 to 50 per cent.

On average, there were 30 applicants per job in the second quarter of this year, down from 60 applicants in the first quarter of this year.

Another report claims that a business development director could typically earn at least $150,000 a year, and up to $400,000 in good years.

When’s my turn???

The money is up for grabs if a businessman or researcher has a brilliant energy technology project that can make a difference and it needs funding.

Administered by an inter-ministry and agency group, its Head, Mr Ko Kheng Hua said that they were not putting any limits on the amount, if proposals were good enough.

The one requirement: Whether corporate laboratories, companies, or research institutions, all must be based here.

A roughly 10-man panel will be convened to judge the worthiness of these projects.

Visit rita.nrf.gov.sg/cerp for more details from Friday (2 Nov 2007).

 There’s money up for grabs, people