Spotted Today – Links
February 1st, 2009 by Eshin
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Came across this nice little expense tracker. The advantage of this one is that it accepts multiple streams to accept new expenses. It is a little more basic than Wesabe without being able to sync up to say your bank (I'm in Singapore so I can only sync up with one of my credit cards). The look and feel of this site is more sleek compared to Wesabe which still feels a little dated although when you start drilling down into information and reports, you'll find Wesabe a little more sophisticated. I would consider Xpenser more of an "expense blog" rather than a useful financial tracking tool.
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Although I'm still huge fan of RememberTheMilk, I'm finding it has limitations when it comes to project management. I tried out Basecamp and I've had a lukewarm response to that and now in the process of testing LiquidPlanner. It does look more robust and technical (I'm undecided whether that is a good thing or not) and it has, as I understand, a good implementation of genuine project management techniques.
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The better half and I just bought ourselves two buffs. I will eschew the obvious plays on in the buff commentary. Quite versatile and we've been having fun playing with the touted 12 ways you can wear the damned thing. My favourite is the balaclava mode which makes me look like a third generation Genestealer kin (don't ask). Will have to field test it when I read my bike as a neckerchief or a mask. Warm and sweat absorbent apparently too.
I'm off to have some more fun in my buff.
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Hats off to this veteran for sticking his neck and doing the right thing. He chastises the younger men for not doing anything to take on an armed robber. Of course, in the post-war world we are told constantly not to be heroes and let the professionals take care of business.
Raises an interesting question about how we are programmed to deal with crisis situations. I had a discussion with one of my trainers about adversity and how they have nice new measures such as Adversity Quotient (AQ, vs. IQ or the much touted female measure, EQ) to measure how you deal with adverse situations. Of course, there is no real way to tell how someone will react in these crisis situations, even if they are the best trained folks in the world.
To be fair to the bystanders, a WW2 vet has both had the training and the experience of real combat to be able to better deal with these crisis scenarios.
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Well good on the Hong Kongers for this one. It's about time that someone stood up against this rising wave of do-gooders. Of course, I wonder how much enforcement will be successful in the KTVs and so on in HK come July 2009. I suspect that it will be quite hard as, unlike Singapore, I think there are some no-go places in HK. I find it interesting that many folks in Singapore, smokers and non-smokers alike, are woefully unaware of the new laws. Guidelines tell building managers to designate smoking areas. The non-smoking public can't figure out what 5 metres is and send unjustified stares in the smoking direction.
Designated smoking areas please. We have rights too you know.
