Searching for Utopia

Here’s one funny spoof on Singapore’s ERP — by none other than Hitler himself. Warning: Unless you’re in Singapore, you may not understand.

How much do you trust your computer? Some people, like me, can’t live without their computers. But hey, it’s actually not the computer itself that’s so prescious. It’s rather the date we store in it. Surely the thought of losing my 80,000 word manuscript saved in my computer wouldn’t make me happy.

So what’s a girl to do? Well, girl or no girl, you must have back-ups. Just in case — feel free to fill in the blanks. The easiest would be if you use online backup services where you can store your data on a remote server.

IBackup provides Online Storage service for personal consumers and enterprises, for Windows and Mac platforms. That being said, it also includes the sharing domain.

Unlike many others, its service allows you to schedule backups and restores whenever you like it. And it’s safer yet faster, because all data is compressed and encrypted before transmission. In larger usage, it can also handle open file backup, Exchange Server, MS SQL Server and Oracle Server Database, and more. Better still, the browser access is very convenient to use. Currently only IBackup allows you to create multiple Backup sets for backup, as well as do restore scheduling.

All come in one package which starts as low as USD 99.50 per year. Depending on your subscription plan, you can check the details on the Pricing Plans.

Have you ever fallen a victim to bird muck? Or was it your car? Actually I never thought it would’ve caused permanent damage to car paint, until it happened to us. Apparently it’s a quite common problem for car owners around the world.

I stumbled upon this article the other day. It says, “A study from Zurich Insurance has found that repairing the damage caused by bird droppings is costing British motorists nearly £57m a year”.

My first reaction was, like, is there no motorist in Switzerland? He he. Anyways, it further says, ” Nine out of 10 motorists (89 per cent) have been on the receiving end of a bird ‘strike’ in the last 12 months, with an unfortunate four per cent of these - more than a million motorists - claiming to fall target every single day.”

Blah blah. I’m not gonna bore you with all details. In short, bird poo can cause permanent discolouration to your car’s paintwork, because it’s acidic. Worse still, it might cost you a bomb to get it repair.

So, here are a few tips to combat the poo:

1. Get rid of it as soon as possible.

2. Don’t wipe; spray. The hard seeds that birds eat are excreted with the lime so when you wipe it away they will scratch your paint.

3. Keep carbonated water in the car for such occasion, not to celebrate, of course, but to wash off the stain. Make sure to get a bottle without salt content.

4. Polish and wax your car. Polish and wax form an invisible layer of protection for your car and will protect again sun, birds and any other elements.

5. Use a cover for your car, especially when you park outside.

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When I was still working in an office, that was like six years ago, I got a time card each month which I should punch into a machine to record the time whenever I came and left.

Surely the process didn’t just stop there. The guys in the HR Department must have spent long hours to do the time tracking for all employees, especially when the office had a few hundreds of employees like mine.

Today most companies use some kind of employee management software to replace such tedious task — and more, since time tracking also serves some other puposes, such as: payroll integration , creating automated workflows in order to increase employees’ productivity, minimizing calculation errors and costly time-reporting, imposing company rules, and minimizing the time burden on administrative staff.

If you need a single Employee Time Tracking software which can handle all those things above, then iEmployee’s Time & Attendance is what you’re looking for.

Like other products from them, Time & Attendance is a web-based, user-friendly, human resource management solution. Your employees only need to submit and track everything from a web browser, and it’s updated automatically.

Visit their site for more products.

I’m not a fan of Bollywood music, but Snoop Dogg’s duet with Bollywood star Akshay Kumar is quite entertaining, to say the least.

Dubbed as the first collaboration between hip-hop and Hindi song, Singh is Kinng video is said to cost £240,000 to make.

Click HERE to watch it.