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 Sundays and Public Holidays as well.
Peak period surcharge, meanwhile, will be reduced from the current 35 per cent to 25 per cent of the metered fare. It will, however, be extended to Sundays and Public Holidays.
Booking fees will also come down from the current S$3.50 during peak periods and S$2.50 at all other times, to S$3.30 during peak periods and S$2.30 at all other times.
Great. Just great. All surcharges will be in-effect on Sundays and Public Holidays too.
Ruby-Throated Hummingbird (via Split Second – 30 Awesome High Speed Photography Samples by You the Designer).
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 tablets, its utility on their desktops will also be questioned. Ubiquity lost.
Yeps. Microsoft, take your time…
Hello Little Printer, available 2012 (by BERG).
A very interesting concept, but a little hard on the trees.
“Laptop” for the day. (Taken with instagram)
Marco Arment:
A truly open facet of Android — the open-source codebase, minus Google’s apps — has enabled one company with a strong market position to step in, effectively close it, and make themselves the gatekeeper. And as gatekeepers go, Apple looks quite benevolent by comparison.
Sounds absolutely plausible. I’m delighted actually.
What quickly become evident to me was, that there exists no perfect blogging platform. Eventually I went with Jekyll, after having tried and dismissed several (more popular and mainstream) solutions. In this post I will document the considerations that lead me to pick Jekyll, how I got Jekyll up and running exactly the way I wanted, and why you should or should not do as I did.
A great post on his consideration for a new Blog engine—Jekyll—and some comments about the system, should you be interested in adopting it.
In fact, after reading this post, I’m motivated to transition my blog to a simpler HTML static site. This will allow me to host the blog onto alternative hosts and have it mirrored with little difficulty or inconsistency.
An awesome set of slides that teaches graph-theory and the various maze generating algorithms. Even if mathematics aren’t exactly your interest, this set of slides is sure to raise your intelligence a few IQ points.
Tom Preston-Werner:
Git is a simple, but extremely powerful system. Most people try to teach Git by demonstrating a few dozen commands and then yelling “tadaaaaa.” I believe this method is flawed. Such a treatment may leave you with the ability to use Git to perform simple tasks, but the Git commands will still feel like magical incantations. Doing anything out of the ordinary will be terrifying. Until you understand the concepts upon which Git is built, you’ll feel like a stranger in a foreign land.
The following parable will take you on a journey through the creation of a Git-like system from the ground up.
A fantastic introduction to plumbing of Git’s internals in very easy-to-understand concepts and analogies.
If you’re struggling to learn Git, this resource would definitely make the learning curve less steep.
Adele - Someone Like You Cover (via CharliesVlogs).
Fantastic singing, especially by Emily Luther.
“Closing Time” - Semisonic Cover (by Alex Goot & Chad Sugg) (via gootmusic).
Last time I’ll ever hear this song this year…
