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Monthly Archives: November 2006

Live by the suit, die by the suit

Saturday, November 25, 2006

From ChannelNewsAsia:
The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) has filed a civil suit against Virtual Map - the company behind streetdirectory.com - for copyright infringement.
The copyright material in question: Singapore’s map data and street information, which the SLA had licensed to Virtual Map, but whose licence the authority terminated in July 2004.
The statutory board claimed that after [...]

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The Future is Flash

Friday, November 24, 2006

Or Why the Zune will Fail

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Fruity Dominance

Friday, November 24, 2006

The weather is gorgeous here today in Melbourne, and I took a walk down Swanston Street (this street runs down the center of Melbourne CBD). Out of every 10 people I saw, at least 5 had earphones on. Every pair of those earphones were in signature white.

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RIP Milton Friedman

Friday, November 17, 2006

Liberty has lost a leading light.
From FT:
Milton Friedman, who has died aged 94, was the last of the great economists to combine possession of a household name with the highest professional credentials. In this respect he was often compared to John Maynard Keynes, whose work he always respected, even though he to some extent supplanted [...]

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ZOMG! PKMS are teh moronz 2!

Thursday, November 16, 2006

ok, so I found another piece of bullshit that I can’t pass up posting, despite the fact that I’ve had less than 6 hours sleep in the past 3 days (3 law papers 3 days in a row is not funny).
From Bernama:
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 14 (Bernama) — A Malay opposition political party in Singapore, Tuesday [...]

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