AsiaOne News: A Straits Times special report today detailed his list of accomplishments to date which, the paper said, has fuelled talks that he is the frontrunner to become the next prime minister. So, they’re trying to sweeten people’s impression of this person? Icky.

Forbes: In today’s paradoxical world of maximizing shareholder value, which Jack Welch himself has called “the dumbest idea in the world”, the situation is the reverse. CEOs and their top managers have massive incentives to focus most of their attentions on the expectations market, rather than the real job of running the company producing real products and services. Makes good sense. I...

Yahoo! News: Many commuters have also complained about SMRT’s bad communication of the disruption. Skyee Alfonso said, “Bus bridging service was only activated after an hour. No instruction and no help was given by SMRT staff to show the commuter where to take the buses.” Themis Thng agreed and added, “Commuters at Raffles Place MRT Station did not even know about...

Design Festival: The following collection is a one-​​stop-​​shop for CSS. From the official home page of W3C to gradients and button generators — each of these resources has been carefully reviewed and tested. With these tools, you can accomplish any CSS design task that you want using CSS as the primary, if not only, system for implementing the look and feel. Quite a nice collection to...

NYTimes Opinion Pages: China’s success in stealing American secrets will provide a continuing challenge to the spy catchers. And Washington’s counterintelligence agents, accustomed to the comfortable parameters of the cold war and more recent battles against Al Qaeda, must rethink their priorities and shift their focus, resources and energy eastward to counter China’s spies.

Nettuts: We won’t travel as far back as the beginning. That’s an entire book on its own. Instead, we’ll rewind the clock to to the release of HTML 4.01, at the tail-end of the nineties. It’s a very good read if you’re one of those history buffs. Just that it’s history with a much shorter/smaller scale, and wars without bullets. =)

Did the National Taxi Association (NTA) breach anti-competition rules when it issued a statement urging taxi companies to follow ComfortDelGro’s example and adjust their fares? Don’t you say. All unions that I’ve seen so far, fight for their workers’/members’ welfare and compensation, i.e. fighting for a reduction of rental, increase in healthcare benefits, or...

Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0) is ready! No, not really. Google is done with Ice Cream Sandwich, but the process of getting it to customers is far from over. Having Google release the source code is just the first step in the process — now the real work for handset makers begins. Motorola and Sony have outlined the process still left before it hits customer’s phones. As Motorola...

Popular Mechanics: Two years after the Airbus 330 plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, Air France 447’s flight-data recorders finally turned up. The revelations from the pilot transcript paint a surprising picture of chaos in the cockpit, and confusion between the pilots that led to the crash. A good read. But it really is an unfortunate tragedy.

Recently, I’ve been hunting around for a blogging engine that can replace this ageing installation of Serendipity. The reason why I went with a full-blown PHP on-the-fly dynamically generated…

Flag down fares will also go up by 20 cents across its ComfortDelGro’s fleet of 15,600 cabs here, while distance fares will be increased by 2 cents. Advance booking fees will also be increased by $8 to encourage more drivers to accept such bookings. The S$3 city area surcharge, which is currently in effect between 5pm and midnight from Monday to Saturday, will be extended to included...

Jonathan Christopher: I’m not sure how I missed it, but a new feature to OS X Lion is a Preference Pane called Network Link Conditioner. This is a thing of beauty for Web developers the world over; built in network throttling on an OS level. Great find!

To corral Office to just some future Microsoft tablet would be a mistake. That is, essentially, betting Office’s future relevance on the possibility that Microsoft will become a dominant player in future mobile computing. Instead, what would happen is that the millions of iOS and Android users will snap out of the Office trance and move on. Once they realize they don’t need office on their...