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Daily SG: 12 Feb 2009

Posted by singaporedaily on 12th February 2009

Khaw wants to ship me to another country when I get old
- A Lesser Mortal: A Heatless and Thoughtless Proposal [Thanks Newcomer]
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: what will YOU defend?
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Sg Gahmen, Thanks for Cheaper Health Care in Johor
- The Secret Political Blog: Lets take our Old on a trip to Malaysia - One which they will never forget
- HWZ: SINGAPOREANS could consider living in nursing homes in neighbouring Johor Baru
- EDMW: Should KBW Apologise for his Insensitive Remarks?
- My sketchbook: Mr.Practical and logic of nursing homes in JB

Ho Chin Quits Temasek
- Yummy BBQ Chicken Wings: Singapore boasts another Number 1

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- The Singapore Enquirer: More accountability and transparency needed in management of Singapore’s Sovereign Wealth Funds

Recession
- Anonymous_X: STATS ChipPAC sends a wrong message by retrenching 650 people?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Kway Teow Man: Idea to Offload Foreigners More Cheaply?

We Don’t Need No Regulation: MP burnt
- TOC: Discrediting the “new media”
- Making History Relevant: Wayang Party Club Proposal Is Irrelevant

Parliament
- Sg.politics.net: Parliamentary Snapshots — 10 Feb 2009
- Workers’ Party @ Parliament: Review of Criminal Procedure, Poor Judgement on Budget 2007, Vote Secrecy

Do We Have Strong Leaders
- actionslavehero: Leadership and Perspective

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Petition4fairtransport.org: Coverage for Plaza Singapura Outreach [Vid]

Housing
- TOC: HDB’s unclear LUP policy causes wastage
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: No playgrounds for children…

Daily Discourse
- The Itch to Write: Work VS Making babies
- Sam’s thoughts: Tackling Underaged Sex
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Get rid of the PSLE
- groundnotes: Glamour and Public Service: A Vicious Circle
- A Singaporean: Did Obama just describe how some Singaporeans feel?
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Seletar Cat Killer

Life, the universe and everything
- Angry AngMo: How To Survive Valentines Day In Singapore During The Financial Crisis And Still Make Your Loved Ones Happy

Books and Papercuts
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Naipaul and his women
- Rambling Librarian: Book: LibWorld - library blogs worldwide

Infoblogaramous
- Midnight Monkey Monitor: National Sustainability Conference
- nussu the ridge online: Ticket Giveaway: NUS Arts Festival 2009 (NAF ‘09)
- Kaffein-nated: Help for bushfire victims

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Daily Tech: 12 Feb 2009

Posted by singaporedaily on 12th February 2009

Tech News
- ARN: Asus hikes prices on all notebooks and Eee products
- Expreview: Western Digital to Launch 2TB Hard Drive This Week
- Fudzilla: ION to offer same battery life as current netbooks with 10x the graphics performance
- Tom’s Hardware: Nvidia Ion Microsoft Approved; Due in Spring
- TweakTown: NVIDIA demo Windows 7 multi-tasking on ION (video)
- Bit-tech: Intel unveils 32nm process technology
- Laptop Mag: Acer Q+A: Netbook Specific Cellular Plans, Nvidia Ion, and Smartphones
- MyBroadBand: Microsoft ends Windows 7 Beta programme, gets ready for final release
- NordicHardware: ASUS R.O.G Genes series - mATX boards coming, pictures
- PCGH: Fallout 3: New texture mods deliver almost photorealistic graphics
- TG Daily: Chip drops Boolean logic, runs seven times faster

Reviews | Guides
- Anandtech: The Phenom II X4 810 & X3 720: AMD Gets DDR3 But Doesn’t Need It
- The Tech Report: Nvidia’s Ion platform
- Legit Reviews: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200S Processor Review
- Reg Hardware: Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB hard drive
- PCSTATS: ASUS P5E3 Premium/Wifi-AP.N Motherboard Review
- BigBruin: Lian Li PC-C36 Muse HTPC Case
- TrustedReviews: Samsung SGH-i780 BizBee Smartphone

SG Tech \ MISC
- A tiny blip in the continuum: I can haz the internetz anywhere?!
- Tech65: Review: Motorola Razr2 V9
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Free Trial of The Lord of the Rings Online

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