A lazy Sunday afternoon google docs analysis of the 2006 and 2001 parliamentary elections aka general elections done here shows the following. In 2006, 65.8% of votes from 53.6% of all voters, gave the PAP 97.6% of seats in Parliament. Or, in 2006 more starkly, about 2/3 of about 1/2 gives 97.6% of seats to [...]
All posts for the month February, 2011
Quick analysis of 2006 and 2001 Parliamentary Elections results
Posted by harishpillay on February 27, 2011
http://harishpillay.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/quick-analysis-of-2006-and-2001-parliamentary-elections-results/
Data analysis sought
I’ve extracted the stats from the Singapore elections department‘s site and set up a tabulated voting results from the very first elections in 1955 upto the last one in 2006. The data from the parliamentary elections (aka general elections) have been put up on google docs. I just wish that the elections department had the [...]
Posted by harishpillay on February 26, 2011
http://harishpillay.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/data-analysis-sought/
This is it!
Kudos to Mr Brown for nailing the “hard truths” as opposed to the original half truths. Hard Truths #11 and #12 are spot on. Go ahead and read the comments as well. Equally revealing.
Posted by harishpillay on February 25, 2011
http://harishpillay.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/this-is-it/
A combined Presidential and General Election, perhaps?
So, the Elections Department (a unit of the Prime Minister’s Office – wink, wink), has finally re-drawn the electoral boundaries and published the demarkations. Looks like Amma will be able to vote in Radin Mas, which has become a single member constituency after it was carved out – finally – out of Tanjong Pagar. I [...]
Posted by harishpillay on February 24, 2011
http://harishpillay.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/a-combined-presidential-and-general-election/
Unfiltered feed from Al Jazeera
If you are running Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you can watch the raw feed from Al Jazeera using this script: ======>8=====cut here============= #!/bin/sh rtmpdump -v -r rtmp://livestfslivefs.fplive.net/livestfslive-live/ -y “aljazeera_en_veryhigh” -a “aljazeeraflashlive-live” -o -| mplayer – ======>8=====cut here============= Save the preceding into a file called for example, aljazeera.sh and change the permissions to x [...]
Posted by harishpillay on February 22, 2011
http://harishpillay.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/unfiltered-feed-from-al-jazeera/
Setting up the standard Andriod marketplace on the Archos 10.1
I was not a very pleased user of the Archos 10.1 ever since I got it last December. The issue centered on the Archos supplied “AppsLib” which was not all that efficient nor useful. It would startup slowly sometimes, crash at other times, and a lot of apps that I’ve got in my Nexus One [...]
Posted by harishpillay on February 17, 2011
http://harishpillay.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/setting-up-the-standard-andriod-marketplace-on-the-archos-10-1/
The magic of brand loyalty
We are all slaves to perception. What you perceives essentially drives your actions. Yes, we can think through the issues and mitigate perceptions so that you can derive at a fair decision. My very first mobile phone, a GSM phone nonetheless, was from Motorola that I bought in 1995 when the organization I was with [...]
Posted by harishpillay on February 15, 2011
http://harishpillay.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/the-magic-of-brand-loyalty/
Virtualization and the Internet
I had the privilege of speaking to a great group of network operators as part of the South Asian Network Operators Group conference held in Colombo, Sri Lanka from Jan 11-18, 2011. The topic I spoke on was entitled “Virtualization and the Internet”.
Posted by harishpillay on February 7, 2011
http://harishpillay.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/virtualization-and-the-internet/
Temporary fix to StarHub’s illegal code injection
StarHub continues to do their illegal code injection into the return stream and here are four ways to you temporarily fix it: Run a proxy server somewhere. By using a proxy server, you can by pass StarHub completely and their illegal code injection. An added benefit would be that you will not be censored as [...]
Posted by harishpillay on February 6, 2011
http://harishpillay.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/temporary-fix-to-starhubs-illegal-code-injection/
