Total Defense and Falsehoods

As we commemorate Total Defense day, it is poignant to note the link to what is potentially some of the worst falsehoods to be perpetuated in Singapore, contributing in part to the death of thousands of people. The impact is probably greater any recorded use of POFMA to date. An excerpt of the ...

SPH Circulation Saga: Misrepresentation

On Jan 9, it was reported that SPH media inflated its daily circulation figures by 10 to 12% of its reported daily average circulation figures. If an advertiser were to take umbrage at the inflated figures, what recourse could they possibly have?    SPH Media CEO Teo Lay Lim told advertisers in ...

Global Talent Search

People are up in arms over the fact that some technical sourcer from Meta is paid $100k per annum. How are technical sourcers different from your run-of-the-mill HR personnel? A technical sourcer from Facebook reached out to me (based in Singapore) over LinkedIn a few years back to apply for a ...

Miracast Compatible Devices

Miracast compatibility for desktops is complicated. You will need a compatible graphics card and wifi adapter. It is such a pain to find out if a particular device is compatible since it is usually not listed on the manufacturer's page. There is also no exhaustive listing on the web so you may ...

Lifelong Spousal Maintenance

A man has to pay spousal maintenance (alimony) to his ex-wife depending on her future earning capacity, the standard of living enjoyed prior to the breakdown of the marriage and the contributions made by the ex-wife to the welfare of the family. This seems fair. A woman who sacrificed her ...

Luna economics

I started reading about Luna after the crash and the more I read, the more I failed to understand. So many articles were mentioning DeFi and articles explaining how Luna works covered the exact same point about the seesaw. If demand for UST increases, Luna is burned and vice versa, thus keeping ...

Free fresh notes for ang bao

I came up with this technique a few years ago and never had to queue for fresh notes for ang bao since. Hence, I believe it is worth sharing. When you receive your ang bao this year, do not spend or deposit the fresh notes. Keep it and pass it to your parents to fill their ang bao for Chinese ...

Flashing SwOS from Windows

I recently acquired a cheap used Mikrotik RB250GS to play with port mirroring and VLAN tagging. The switch came with the original SwOS firmware which was buggy to the extent that firmware upgrade over the web interface itself was failing. The other method to update the firmware is through ...