Often, I am asked: Why blog? Why bother with blogging and bloggers? 1. Blogs offer alternate views. We are supposed to trust MSM because they have editors and all sorts of checks to make sure that news is accurate and impartial. Can we? Let’s say you read this article about a project to build artificial [...]
Month: October, 2007
I am Singaporean
I wrote this some time ago, when this Mr Brown meme was all the rage. Two things: (1) I didn’t feel it expressed all I wanted to say and (2) August isn’t the only month for national pride. Come to think of it, there’s a third point. (3) I really wanted to make this an [...]
The eyes have it
Wow. A month without blogging. Anyway, I went for an eye test today. Let’s see… 6/6 vision with spectacles on. (Had better be… I recently changed my lenses!) Enough cornea for LASIK. Intraocular Pressure: 13 Anterior Segment ok. Optic Disc ok. Macula ok. It’s not a thorough test, but at least I didn’t fail the [...]
