Time to sum up the findings from the past few days’ research for an alternative web host, and possibly a new blog to store my thoughts. Hopefully this will serve as a starting point to anyone who happened to come this way.
First, the resources.
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As a follow up to the previous article on NUTS, here is what my Italian friend said after he read it:
“It is maybe interesting that in Italy the situation is such that the rules are there just to have fun in breaking them. For an average italian it is a real pleasure to U-turn when there is a sign of no-U-turn… maybe we can call it U-Turn And Have Fun Syndrome…”
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Recently I received by email the following, rather long, article. While this is a sober and poignant examination of the social culture in Singapore, I believe many other countries can similarly benefit from Mr Sim Wong Hoo’s observations. By the way, Mr Sim also happens to be the Chairman and CEO of Creative Technology, one of the best-known success stories of Singapore, and very much government-unassisted in its early days.
In case you are too busy to read through the entire article, here is a short extract from the Introduction:
Whats is NUTS? NUTS is when you want to do something and you seek approval of a higher authority. When there is no rule saying that you can do such a thing, then the standard answer is NO…
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This must be the time for discontentment. Two days ago, I was reading an interesting article on SitePoint about someone’s experience in setting an ecommerce website in 2 months for USD$99. Out of curiosity, I clicked on one of the web hosting providers listed on that site. After browsing the features (and price of course), the idea of switching to a different host came into my head, and I have not been able to get rid of it since! Incidentally this is probably the only time I would admit that website ads are effective… Maybe it is part of human nature that we are all very hard to satisfy??
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Two days ago, it was April Fools’ Day. It was also the same day that Leslie Cheung took his own life by jumping off from his 24-th level hotel room. Leslie was one of the biggest star in Hong Kong – movies and singer – throughout the 80′s.
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| Flags | Countries | V (%) |
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Singapore | 21 % |
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United States | 15 % |
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United Kingdom | 12 % |
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India | 12 % |
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Australia | 9 % |
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Canada | 3 % |
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China | 3 % |
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Dominica | 3 % |
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Egypt | 3 % |
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Italy | 3 % |
| Total Countries: | 16 |
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| Total Pageviews: | 51 |