[MyAppleMenu] Nov 12, 2007

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**** Subclassing In Interface Builder 3 <http://kevincathey.com/apple/subclassing-in-interface-builder-3/>
by Kev
Probably the most common question asked about IB 3 is: how do you subclass something?

**** Apple Posts 3 New Get A Mac Ads <http://www.tuaw.com/2007/11/11/apple-posts-3-new-get-a-mac-ads/>
by Scott McNulty, The Unofficial Apple Weblog

**** Apple's Leopard Is Better 'Linux' Than Linux <http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/11/apples_leopard_1.html>
by Alexander Wolfe, InformationWeek
Mac OS X, and Apple's development paradigm, is the anti-Linux. And it's Steve Jobs' big accomplishment that Apple has built a better (I should actually say "more successful") Linux than Linux Torvalds has ever been able to do.

**** O2 On iPhone: 8,000 Activations On Day One, 5-Year Contract <http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/11/11/o2-on-iphone-8000-activations-on-day-one-5-year-contract>
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica

**** Making A Happy Developer House <http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/11/11/makingAHappyDeveloperHouse.html>
by Dave Winer, Scripting News
If you look at the successful platforms, most of them were completely open to anyone who wanted to make products for them.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Can WiMax Make It In The U.S.? <http://www.news.com/Can-WiMax-make-it-in-the-U.S./2100-1039_3-6217947.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news>
by Marguerite Reardon, CNET News.com

**** Intel To Unveil Chips For Improving Video Quality On The Web <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/technology/12intel.html?ex=1352610000&en=9162b676a4345f99&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
by John Markoff, New York Times
Sean Maloney, Intel's chief sales and marketing officer, said last week that the chips' increased computing power would begin the transformation of today's stuttering and blurry videos, the staple of YouTube and other video streaming sites, into high-resolution, full-screen quality that will begin to compete with the living room HDTV.

**** Google Options Make Masseuse A Multimillionaire <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/technology/12google.html?ex=1352610000&en=06966f580d2e02df&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
by Katie Hafner, New York Times

**** Will Success, Or All That Money From Google, Spoil Firefox? <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/technology/12link.html?_r=1&ex=1352523600&en=611a0e6f3018d3a6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin>
by Noam Cohen, New York Times

**** Net Gains: How Technology Could Save Presidential Debates <http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2007/11/11/net_gains/>
by Dan GIllmor, Boston Globe
The internet and digital tools &mdash; search, blogging, online video, wikis, interacitve games, and virtual worlds &mdash; are made to order for serious conversations.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Picketing But Still Punchy <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/fashion/11strike.html>
by Rachel Axler, New York Times
Before I leave, I take care not to tidy my desk too much. I even leave a cup of water by the keyboard. Not like it'll have time to evaporate! Monday morning I'll be back here and we'll all laugh at our paranoia. Laugh and laugh and laugh.

**** Visiting The Library In A Strange City <http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2007/11/19/071119po_poem_wright>
by Franz Wright, New Yorker

**** Don't Look Away <http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2007/11/11/dont_look_away/>
by Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Getting loudly outraged over blackface may allow us the luxury of feeling superior to our ancestors, but it's the easy way out. More difficult and more necessary is actually looking at a practice with roots deep in American history, one that had different meanings to the white mainstream, to immigrants, and to the African-Americans who turned it to their own expressive purposes. Only by understanding blackface can we recognize where we haven't progressed; only then can we see the places where blackface still thrives in our culture, disguised and still potent.

**** What Comes After <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/06/AR2007110602460.html>
by Liza Mundy, Washington Post
THey lost their daughters in the deadliest cmpus massacre in U.S. history. Now one parent thinks a lawsuit might be the only way to hold someone accountable for her death, while the other believes it would only prolong their pain.

**** Googling Her Birth Parents <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/11/CMNLS9BME.DTL>
by Annie Kassof, San Francisco Chronicle
I couldn't help reflecting on my new version of the symbolism of this nightly routine.

**** Easy Out <http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2007/11/11/easy_out/>
by Alison Lobron, Boston Globe
Ok, maybe not easy. But today's gay high schoolers are discovering that declaring their homosexuality &mdash; and doing it at younger and younger ages &mdash; brings little of the stigma and complications that earlier generations faced.

SingaporeSurf
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**** Singapore Government Will Not Make Stallholders Buy Own Insurance <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/311074/1/.html>
by Julia Ng, Channel NewsAsia
Minister for the environment and water resources Dr Yaacob Ibrahim told parliament Monday it is best for each stallholder to decide on the extent of insurance coverage he deems suficient to cover the value of his goods and belongings.
/While the non-stallholders will have to buy a compulsory insurance just in case we live too long? :-)/

**** Sin Ming Will Not Be "Funeral Parlour Hub": MND <http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_175983.html>
by Tan Hui Yee, Straits Times
The Sin Ming area will not be a "funeral parlour hub" despite plans by the government to pilot a purpose-built funeral parlour there. Minister of state for national development Grace Fu assured MP Hri Kumar in parliament on Monday that her ministry would take residents' concerns seriously when planning for this development.
/The apparently unanswered question is, what constitutes a 'funeral parlour hub'? How is the present development not a hub?/

**** Inflation Expected To Tail Off In 2008: Lim Hng Kiang <http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_175967.html>
by Claire Huang, Straits Times
Rising food prices recently may have worried many, but the government has stepped in to assure Singaporeans that this phenomenon will tail off in the second half of 2008. Minister for trade and industry Lim Hng Kiang said that the GST effect will wear off by the second half of 2008.
See Also:
Singapore Expects Inflation To Rise <http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8SS1CE81.htm>, by Associated Press.

**** Withdrawal Of Deferred Payment Scheme Will Not Affect Genuine Homebuyers: Mah <http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_175971.html>
by Tan Hui Yee, Straits Times
The withdrawal of the deferred payment scheme for property should not unduly affect genuine homebuyers as they can continue to get home loans from banks, national development minister Mah Bow Tan said in parliament on Monday.

**** Annual Values Of Properties, HDB Flats To Go Up From Jan 1 <http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_175965.html>
by Straits Times
An Iras statement on Monday said the average Annual Values (AVs) will be 20 per cent for 1-room and 2-room flats, 25 per cent for three-room units, 18 per cent for four-room flats, 20 per cent for five-roomers and 18 per cent for executive flats. But it said the increase 'does not translate to proportionate increase in property tax actually payable, due to the property tax rebates that have been granted by government'.

**** Have More Babies, Less Democracy For Singapore <http://mollymeek.livejournal.com/173070.html>
by Mollymeek
Misdefinition from the start.

**** Get On Board The Parenting Train More Quickly? <http://aaron-ng.info/blog/get-on-board-the-parenting-train-more-quickly.html>
by Aaron Ng, Hear Ye! Hear Ye!
There are many disadvantages to having kids early, or even having kids at all. This is probably not what the government wants to hear, but it's reality for young couples.

**** Singapore Income Gap Widens With Economic Boom <http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/2007/11/12/130587/Singapore-income.htm>
by Melanie Lee, Reuters
Income inequality is nothing new in free-market Singapore, but two years of blistering economic growth and a government policy of attracting wealthy expatriates have created a new class of super-rich, while a string of price increases for everything from bread to bus fares have made life harder for the poor.
Despite sporting a first-world GDP per capita of US$29,000 &mdash; second only to Japan in Asia &mdash; Singapore has an income inequality profile more in line with third-world countries.

**** Gone Tropical <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22726271-5002031,00.html>
by Susan Kurosawa, The Australian
Singapore's newest resort sits in a wonderland of glossy vegetation.

**** Should Women Give Up Career To Have Kids First? <http://blog.simplyjean.com/2007/11/12/should-women-give-up-career-to-have-kids-first/>
by Simply Jean

>From the outlook of the cost of living in Singapore, I highly doubt whether this is really feasible.


**** Good For The PAP To Refresh Itself - But Does Its Autocratic Measure Limits Its Own Pregorative? <http://antineodem.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/good-for-the-pap-to-refresh-itself-but-does-its-autocratic-measures-limit-its-own-pregorative/>
by The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist
If the PAP is sincere about winning the hearts of the voters, they have to remove the chains from the ankles of all political parties. Only then, can apathy to the PAP and the political system be combated more effectively.

**** Feed Me Trash <http://mollymeek.livejournal.com/172813.html>
by Mollymeek
One wonders if the media is being secretly subversive by reporting the worst bits of the convention or if it already tried its best to report the best ideas that came out.

**** 10 Simple Joys Of Singapore Life <http://jeremyyew.com/2007/11/12/10-simple-joys-of-singapore-life/>
by Jeremy's Little Blog

**** Growing Singapore <http://mollymeek.livejournal.com/172601.html>
by Mollymeek

**** Singapore Feels Heat Of Anti-Burma Drive <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20071111/bs_ft/fto111120071245292863>
by John Burton and Amy Kazmin, Financial Times
As the US leads efforts to increase the financial pressure on Burma's ruling military junta and its supporters, that practice has put Singapore in an uncomfortable spotlight.

**** A Little Disappointed With The Political Arena In Singapore <http://blog.simplyjean.com/2007/11/12/a-little-disappointed-with-the-political-arena-in-singapore/>
by Simply Jean

**** Doesn't Our Food Smell, Too? <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/221643.asp>
by Kumkum Seth, Today
I find it very disturbing to hear the increasingly prejudiced views expressed in public about foreign workers, especially construction workers.

**** Minorities And State Protection <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2007/yax-807.htm>
by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread
It is not the prime minister's job to entrench discrimination. It is his job to compensate for irrational social attidues and behaviour, in order to give substance up to the promise of equality. The reason that the state extends a helping hand to Malays and Indians is precisely the same reason why it should towards lesbians and gays.

**** MM: Making Western Media Happy Is Not Singapore Business <http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_175866.html>
by Li Xueying, Straits Times
"They want me to listen to them, have more democracy, more protests like Taiwan - that's a democracy. But you calculate yourself, do you want us to make them happy or to have the investors have confidence in us? Which is good for us?"

**** Don't Agree With Government? Cadres Urged To 'Speak Up' <http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_175861.html>
by Keith Lin, Straits Times
Being a member of the People's Action Party (PAP) does not mean you cannot be critical of the government, said Mr Sam Tan, MP for Tanjong Pagar GRC.
/Just make sure you vote the same when you are in the parliament. Whip!/

**** Have More Sensitive Thermostats On Trains <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_175767.html>
by Holden Li King Ho, Nanyang Technological University, Straits Times

**** Talent, Not Numbers <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/221671.asp>
by Loh Chee Kong, Today
In a candid interview in the People's Action Party's latest Petir newsletter, Mr Ngiam &mdash; while stressing that "my role is to give an alternative, not an opposing view, to government policies" &mdash; questions the rationale behind the new target. Singapore doesn't need numbers, it needs talent, he said.

**** Aljunied Still A Hot Topic <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/221657.asp>
by Loh Chee Kong, Today
More than 18 months have passed but the rank and file of the People's Action Party (PAP) is apparently still coming to terms with last year's bruising electoral battle in Aljunied Group Representation Constituency &mdash; even as the party leadership gears up for what it predicts would be a tougher fight in the next elections.