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Month: February, 2007

Singapore Number One Again

If giasen’s data and methodology is correct, Singapore is the largest consumer of oil per capita.
Via Google Earth Blog.
I’m not too surprised. Still. Scary.
UPDATE Singeo conjectures that the oil consumption includes Singapore’s oil refining activity, which LabRat confirms. What I gather is that oil consumption includes oil for industrial use (chemical and petrochemical processes are [...]

The First World Hard Disk

If I was drinking coffee while reading ST Interactive this morning, I would have spewed it all over my monitor and keyboard.
S’pore ready to become a top First World nation: MM
ST 24 Feb 2007 | Peh Shing Huei & Sue-Ann Chia
THE architect of Singapore’s move from Third World to the First believes the country is [...]

History of Mapping in Singapore

I like maps.
Especially old ones.
They tell you what used to exist in the past and where they were located. Old maps of Kent Ridge will show you that Kent Ridge Road, which now ends abuptly at the Library Annex, used to connect all the way to Clementi Road.
Sometimes the names are different, which means there [...]

4th year of blogging

Happy Birthday to my blog (and its previous incarnations)!
Can’t believe I’ve been doing this for four years.

Lille v Thailand

It’s been a while since I’ve watched a European Champions League game. This typically involves waking up at 3.30 in the morning (evening in Europe) for the midweek games. Since starting work, I’ve not been able to drag myself out of bed in most cases. This time, I had the benefit of two days of [...]