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I’m helping a friend looking for the photo of his late mum taken by a group of teenagers at the grounds of St Joseph’s Church, Victoria Street, on Good Friday, 10 April 2009 around 7-8pm.

The group of teenagers, aged between 16-20 years old, armed with expensive DSLR camera, weaved through the crowd taking snap shots. One teen took a really close up shot of my friend’s mum, and it is the last picture that was taken of her.

Being able to get hold of that picture would mean a lot to my friend. Anyone with information can contact me at pk@zetallite.com.

Here’s a picture of my friend’s late mum in 2003, according to him she still looked the same before passing on.

Ok here’s how to create a true cross browser favicon that works even in IE6.

1) Create a 16px * 16px image
using photoshop and “Save As…” .ico
To save as .ico you will need to put this photoshop plugin in your Plug-Ins\File Formats folder of your photoshop program. Restart photoshop after add the plugin to that folder.

2) Save the favicon as “favicon.ico”
Upload it to the root folder e.g www.zetallite.com/favicon.ico

3) Now add this code to the html page head

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://zetallite.com/favicon.ico” />

The reason you ain’t getting your dream job isn’t because it doesn’t exist, it’s because you’re not the right person for it!… or at least you haven’t been successful at selling yourself as that right person.

You’re selling. They are buying. The product is YOU.
Knowing the product and who you’re selling to should determine how you sell the product!

Generally, there are three well-known “tools” to help you sell YOU.
1) Curriculum Vitae (a.k.a Resume or CV in short)
2) Cover Letter
3) Interview

Knowing the exact purpose of all 3 tools and then using them correctly and effectively will skyrocket your chances of landing a job.

Okay let’s start with the resume since it’s the easiest tool to master and get right.

THE RESUME
The key here is presenting your resume in the most concise and readable way!

HR people review piles of resumes when there are positions to be filled, so it’s common sense that they won’t read word for word. They scan-read. What’s really important here is the “mental image” they get after scan-reading your resume. There are only two outcomes of that mental image. “This person seems suitable and should be short-listed for an interview” Yes or No.

Think of your resume is a 60-second pitch that will determine if you’re get called for an interview or not.

I must also mention that resumes should be fact based. What’s your name, address, contact number, email, etc. What schools have you study at? What awards have you obtained? What positions have you held? What major achievements have you made? What skills do you have? What is your employment history?

Blast them with the best of everything you got, in the least amount of words possible. Get them interested. Get them to call you down for an interview!

So if you’re not getting those interview appointments… now you know why!

I’ll update soon on how and when to write cover letters and how to tackle those nerve wrecking interviews!

These guides are written based on my personal experiences and insights from having been on both sides of the interview table. They are more of a common sense approach to getting a job, rather then being instructional.

Magento Open Source eCommerce has many nice features, however, installing it for the first time can be quite challenging due to some gotchas and its PHP 5.2 system requirements.

Step 1 - Download & Install the latest XAMPP
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
As of now, it’s XAMNPP 1.7.1 which bundles PHP 5.2.9. Just what we need.

Step 2 - Patch XAMPP’s MySQL Library DLL
If you try to install Magento without doing this first, Apache will crash half way through the installation. It’s due to some bug with the PDO library i think, anyway doesn’t matter all you need to do is download http://windows.php.net/downloads/snaps/php-5.2/php-5.2-src-latest.zip, unzip it, copy the libmysql.dll to your xampp\apache\bin and xampp\php and then restart apache.

Step 3 - Login to the Backend: Use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost
Example:
Works: http://127.0.0.1/magento/index.php/admin/
Doesn’t: http://localhost/magento/index.php/admin/

The front-end should look like this.
For more Magento website examples, view my portfolio.

Phew~ finally manage to move most of my post over to this spanking new 2.7.1 wordpress :)

Here’s a screen shot of my old blog just so I can look back at this post a few years later heh

After 500 interviews of successful people over 7 years,
Richard St. John comes with with this.

1) PASSION - Do it for love
2) WORK - It’s all hardwork. Have fun.
3) GOOD - Be damn good. Practice Practice Practice.
4) FOCUS - Focus on ONE thing.
5) PUSH - Push yourself both Physically and Mentally. Push Push Push.
6) SERVE - Serve something of value.
7) IDEAS - Listen, Observe, Be Curious, Ask Questions, Problem Solve, Be Connected.
8) PERSIST - Persist through C.ritisim R.ejection A.ssholes P.ressure

http://www.ted.com/

Time Taken: 2:32′56
Distance: 35.39
Average Speed: 13.8km/h
Top Speed: 45.4km/h

[Left] Kyo, Deb, PK, Mark, Lin [Right] =)

Route: Jalan Jamal (A) -> East Coast Park (B) -> Changi Village Food Centre (C) -> Simpang Bedok (D) -> Jalan Jamal (E)

Full of energy and smiles =) lolz

Underpass to East Coast Park! The start of our lil’ adventure~

We stopped to watch planes and take photos along Changi Coast Road

Hooray! We reach Changi Village (C) after a 17km cycle which took us about 2 hrs

Changi Village Food Court - Only Mark had appetite to eat the famous Nasi Lemak!

KML file of our return trip from Kyo’s Android HTC Dream GPS Tracker

The rented mountain bikes each only cost 8 bucks for the whole night

Lol we’re all burned by Simpang Bedok so no photos of our Fish&Chip/RotiJohn/Kalamari/MaggiMeeGoreng/SyrupLimao @ Spize :p

Yep! that’s it… Jalan Kayu Route next? ;)

Pretty cool way to explain what all this “credit crunch” and “sub-prime” stuff is…