Planning for a Japan Trip in December
Planning for a holiday trip, like Japan trip, on your own can be very tedious. But I still do it because it gives me the most flexible, most of the time cheaper when it comes to hotels and the most important of all, the stress of waiting for others or make others wait for us in a tour group. Of course, we can also have more fun in places we want to go, especially the theme parks which can choose to spend one, two or even 3 days. Travelling on your own means you can to interact with the locals. I am planning for a Japan Trip this year and as…
Day 2
We roam in the Seoul station to find breakfast early in the morning. The walk is quite long from Fourpoints by Sheraton Hotel but it is sheltered all the way. Food court sold food that looks like lunch to us. We ended up sharing burger for breakfast. Buying the rail pass from Changi Recommends (a website) was a big mistake. We can only exchange the passes when we are in Seoul. Our trips by trains have to change because some were fully booked. If you booked online, you can plan in the your home country one month before the trip. One surprise from Seoul is that we need to literally…
Install Webmin on Linode VPS
Getting Started with Linode If you haven’t already signed up for a Linode account, start here. Create a new account at the Sign Up page. Sign in and enter your billing and account information. Most accounts are activated instantly but some require manual review prior to activation. If your account is not immediately activated, you will receive an email with additional instructions. Select a Linode plan and data center location If you’re unsure of which data center to select, see our speed test to determine which location provides the best performance for your target audience. You can also generate MTR reports for each of the data centers to determine which…
Defects to look out for when taking over a new house
Check for bad or uneven layering of floor tiles – roll marbles across the floor to see if they bounce. Warped Table tops – Use handphone app – Spirit Level 3rd Air-con leaks – Turn on aircon while inspecting the house to see if the piping are done properly. Water flow in the toilets – make sure that there are no puddles of water on the floor Uneven fixtures – Check insides of cabinets and wardrobes Taps and sink – Turn on taps and make sure that the water are drained quickly Toilet bowl – Flush the toilets to make sure that they are functioning properly. Windows – Check the…
Motion Sensor
It is great to attach a motion sensor to the lights so that it can be brighten up only when there is movement. In this way, we can save a little more electricity all the time. Instead of buying a light that is already attached with a motion sensor, we can add this in http://www.sgbotic.com/index.php?dispatch=products.view&product_id=2046. It is used in our multi-story car park and our office staircases.
Keyless Lock
I stumbled on this article on Keyless Lock for home and it mentioned that door system from Kevo is able to unlock the door upon detecting the presence of the phone. It sounded cool but immediately wondered if the door will remain unlock if we are at home, since the phone is always nearby. Not a very good idea to keep the door unlock when we are at home, especially at night when we are sleeping. I have heard of Samsung Door Lock but I don’t like the idea of bring a key card or remembering the passcode to unlock the door. So Samsung is not what I will consider.…
The difference between business development and sales
Business Development and Sales is about working with external parties. Business development is about working with partners to sell to customers. For example, you look for distributors who are willing to sell the products for you. Where in sales, you sell directly to the end customer. For courses, business development involved recruiting portals, training institutions, etc to sell the courses for you. For sales, it involves selling to the participants directly or through the training manager of the company. Check out this link for a more detailed explanation http://andrewdumont.me/the-difference-between-sales-and-business-development/
Bluetooth Headphones
Just yesterday, someone was asking me about Bluetooth headphones and I thought it would be nice to share with you what are the features you should be looking for: 1. Bluetooth headphones has 2 types, one is for making and receiving calls only and the other can also listen to music. 2. It must have a clear output of sound. If you wish to use to for making calls, make sure that you get one with a noise cancelling feature. If not, the other party will have a problem hearing you. 3. Long battery life. You do not want to have a Bluetooth set that allow you hear music for…
Optimize SBI website
This is what I did to optimize my sbi website: Do a speed test to identify the areas that need improvement. In this current exercise, I notice that some of my image sizes are wrong and re-size them. Then I compress them to make sure that their sizes are reduced to the minimum without losing quality. This is done using jpegtrans and pngout for jpg files and png files repectively. Using S3 browser, I upload the files into Amazon S3. Then I set up Amazon Cloudfront, a CDN, which will shorten the time to load the image-files all over the world, tapping into the files in Amazon S3. My score…
Compressing png and jpg files for SEO
The size and quality of images are now an important factor in the Search Engine Optimization. Images not only must be of the correct size, it must also be compressed. For PNG files, it is recommended to use PNGOUTWIN. This program can compress up to 20 files at one time during the trial of 30 days. Subsequently, you have to page about USD 15 to continue to use it. As for JPG files, jpegtran is recommended. But it is a tough program to use because you have to go back to the basic, using DOS command. Thank God that I googled and found this solution which allow me to process…