Collection of thoughts

Still missing my old but reliable bike after losing my keys. The trip journey back from the office has increased from 20min to almost an hour these days. I am starting to wonder if there are any other ways of cutting through my ABUS lock after exhausting my efforts with the council and police. Maybe I should just get a new bike instead; new year, new bike, makes perfect sense.

Sometimes I do wish what it will be if I am one of the Goldman Sachs employees, earning those amounts that some will probably associate the exorbitant numbers earned by Premier League footballers. One thing for sure, is that I will certainly not have the problem of deciding whether to pick the lock to my bike or treating myself to a brand new £1000 bike if I want.

Another NY Times article wrote recently on why he thinks Amazon should buy eBay which I find to be quite intriguing as I always admired Amazon for the way they have change our perspective of internet shopping since the mid 90s. But the more interesting points raised was how the industries continue to consolidate both to derive innovation as well as to inject freshness into the other which may seem to be losing its way abit.

And in many case, seems to be the same for the company that I work for. It was officially announced last week that Microsoft has acquired Multimap on my way back from Turkey. I am quietly excited about the change, but also worried how the changes in culture, policies, etc, are going to affect us all. However, I like to believe that if we can continue to hold on to the biggest assets of the company, which is its people, we can definitely make a difference to the mapping industry in the new year to come.

Phoneline dead -> Internet dead -> TV dead

Phone line has been down for past 2 days, apparently due to some technical issues with my BT line. Thanks to my 'neighbour', I can barely get a signal to my in my flat. Well, it's better than nothing, at least I can logon - I can't imagine if I were to live without internet!

BT - Wake up your idea and fix my phone line!!!

Update 6 Jan: Got a sms from BT this morning updating me that they have fixed my line! So glad I do not have to spend the weekend without the net.

Connection to Singapore sites down

All connection to SG-related domains seem to be dead for the past 24 hours if not more. I thought it was a problem with one site, but seems to affect all .sg related.