peakoil.com -> seatradeasia-online.com :
In an extraordinary question and answer session in Shanghai the boss of the world's largest shipping conglomerate has advocated the use of nuclear power onboard merchant ships. Outlining the container alliance CKYH's decision to push ahead with [...]
Gold prices hit record highs over $1,227 on 3 Dec 2009 as the precious metal continued to attract investors looking for an alternative to the dollar. Gold prices have risen by more than 7% since touching a low [...]
Commodities prices slumped after Dubai sought to defer some debt payments, rattling investors and spurring a dollar rally. Gold for immediate delivery fell to $1,177.63 after touching a record $1,195.13 on 26 Nov 2009. Gold prices have advanced 33% [...]
Dubai has shocked investors by asking for a debt standstill at Dubai World, the government's flagship holding company that has developed some of the world's most extravagant real estate projects. The move raised the spectre of default in the Middle East's' [...]
Singapore's Energy Market Authority (EMA) is launching a 3-year pilot project aimed at helping households and businesses save more on electricity bills. The initiative comes on the back of higher consumption patterns and more diversified energy sources. Due to [...]
The EUR/USD forex exchange rate rose above 1.49 on Wed 18 Nov 2009 as the US dollar, plagued by poor investor sentiment, pushed COMEX gold futures to new record highs. Prices in COMEX gold futures trading hit record highs [...]
A set of pages on the new m.post1.org mobile sub-domain has been created to display the mobile live forex rates for reference by market observers or individuals who are looking into trading currencies. As currency trading is typically highly leveraged, it [...]
HP, the world's biggest personal-computer maker, plans to buy 3Com for $2.7 billion, stepping up competition with Cisco in the computer-networking market. Both 3Com and Cisco make network routers and switches. 3Com shareholders will receive $7.90 a share [...]
Wall Street continued its rally, pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a 13-month high, as investors sought resource and financial shares. Gold futures again reached record levels, as the US dollar sank. Crude oil futures also [...]
channelnewsasia.com, manilatimes.net :
The inaugural Singapore Green Building week started with the launch of Singapore's first "Zero Energy Building". The Zero Energy Building along Braddell Road, a three-storey office building, cost S$11 million [USD $7.9 million] to retrofit and is [...]
This article belongs to the Singapore inflation watch story arc.
Singapore's inflation rate as measured by the consumer price index (CPI) fell for the 6th consecutive month in Sep 2009. Data from the Statistics Department showed that consumer prices fell [...]
Of course, I may be eyeing that 2010/2011 Honda Civic Hybrid right now, but what of my current one, the 2008 edition? Mind you that although hybrids have gained a much wider level of acceptance than say, 5 years ago, there are [...]
Harvest Energy Trust ("Harvest") (TSX:HTE.UN) (NYSE:HTE) today announces that it has entered into an agreement (the "Arrangement Agreement") with Korea National Oil Corporation ("KNOC") for the purchase of all the issued and outstanding trust units (the "Units") at a price [...]
Heads up. Crude oil futures have hit the $80 level, with a current session high of $80.05 according to NYMEX. Bloomberg reports that :
Crude oil prices rose above $80 per barrel for the first time since Oct 2008 in [...]
NYMEX crude oil prices rose for a 7th straight session on Friday [16 Oct 2009], fuelled by a jump in industrial production in the US and rising tensions in Nigeria. Light sweet crude for Nov 2009 delivery reached $78.67, the [...]
peakoil.com -> officialwire.com :
Russia is pumping more oil than ever before, counteracting OPEC production cut efforts to influence the crude price. Russia in September produced 10 million barrels of oil per day [mbpd], a new record for the [...]
The US dollar declined to the lowest level against the euro since before the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, unwinding gains posted earlier as investors sought safety amid the global credit crisis. The USD's drop helped push gold [...]
This article belongs to the Global food crisis story arc.
Indonesia may shelve plans for the country's biggest rice exports in half a century next year if dry weather caused by El Nino causes production to miss forecasts. The world's' [...]
Asian central banks bought US dollars to weaken their own currencies, traders said, as the slumping USD threatens smaller export-driven economies. Asian central banks said to be intervening in currency markets overnight by buying dollars included South Korea, Hong [...]
COMEX gold prices hit $1,061.40 per ounce, a fresh record high for a third straight session as investors bought the metal as a hedge against a weaker dollar. The recent rally has taken gold prices above the $1,032.80 [...]
Crude oil prices soared Thursday [8 Oct 2009] as the dollar headed toward a 2009 low against the euro, both moves fueled by increasing optimism about the world economy. NYMEX light, sweet crude for Nov 2009 delivery reached $72.55 per [...]
Gold's rally to a record high shows commodity investors remain concerned that the US economic recovery will spur inflation, even as Wall Street forecasts and government bonds suggest stable prices. COMEX gold prices have jumped 18% this [...]
Crude oil prices rose sharply on Wednesday [20 Sep 2009] on data showing more signs of recovery in the US. NYMEX crude oil for Nov 2009 delivery rallied $3.90 to end at $70.61 dollars per barrel. The US economy [...]
engadget.com -> teslamotors.com :
Via Engadget, as revealed in an official blog post by VP of Business Development Diarmuid O'Connel, the Tesla Model S electric car platform will be put to use in other vehicle models :
.. the Tesla Model S' [...]
peakoil.com -> seattlepi.com :
New nanotech materials could provide the efficiency boost needed to make geothermal power a more practical energy source if research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory proves out. Geothermal energy fell out of favor in the early 1980's' [...]
China has started building [34 million barrels] of oil tanks at Dushanzi in Xinjiang in its far west as part of the second phase of strategic oil reserves. The project will cost 2.65 billion yuan ($390 million) and is [...]
NYMEX crude oil prices for Nov 2009 delivery fell to $65.89 per barrel , an 8-week low, as sales of existing homes unexpectedly slumped, raising concerns about the economic recovery. Oil futures (see live oil prices) declined after the [...]
engadget.com -> green.autoblog.com :
As of Aug 2009, Toyota's global cumulative sales of its hybrid vehicles have topped the 2-million mark. The first Toyota Prius was launched in Dec 1997, the 2nd-gen Prius in 2003 and Toyota's HSD [Hybrid Synergy Drive] system [...]
Whilst the spelling check in the Lotus Note client may be useful for some people, it is more of an annoyance to me especially when writing about people, places, projects, or anything else that the built-in spell-checker does not recognize.
So here's how to' [...]
I spotted a Transformers Bumblebee look-alike of the 2009/2010 Chevrolet Camaro at Compass Point Mall (Singapore) today after work. It is of the concept model from the first Transformers [...]
Automakers and investors are focusing on China as it withstands the global recession. Chinese sales of cars, sport-utility vehicles and other passenger vehicles jumped 71% in July 2009. China's vehicle sales may rise 28% this year, likely enough for' [...]
The world's largest CNG refuelling station - spanning over 7,000 square metres [75,000 square feet] - has opened in Singapore. It has 44 pump hoses for cars and 2 for buses, and is open 24 hours. This should address the problem' [...]
via smokey.rhs.com :
The default Lotus Notes installation may not have had the proxy settings set. To set the proxy server settings for your Lotus Notes 8.5 client to enable displaying of images in emails, particularly if you are behind a corporate firewall [...]
The Lotus Notes client, whether 8.0, 8.5 or other versions, usually sits on the taskbar taking up valuable screen real estate. Surprisingly, despite years of development and a wholesale re-write and port over to the Java-based Eclipse platform, there is still no option [...]
via lotus.com :
To remove the Sametime icon from the system tray when your Lotus Notes 8.5 client is launched :
1. Edit the plugin_customization.ini file in Notes :
at c:\Program Files\lotus\notes\framework\rcp\plugin_customization.ini
or c:\notes\framework\rcp\plugin_customization.ini
2. Add the following line:
com.ibm.collaboration.realtime.application/useSystemTray=false
Other tech tips as follows [...]
Gold prices powered through the $1,000 per ounce psychological barrier on Tuesday [8 Sep 2009], carried by a wave of pent-up technical momentum and dollar weakness, with some analysts eyeing last year's record high at $1,030.80. US COMEX' [...]
An Abu Dhabi investment firm has offered to buy Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor for US$3.9 billion, which would create one of the world's largest microchip makers. The buyout by Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) comes as chip companies worldwide look to boost [...]
doomers.us -> marketwatch.com :
Hong Kong is pulling all its physical gold holdings from depositories in London, transferring them to a high-security depository newly built at the city's airport. The 3,660-square-foot depository at Hong Kong's main Chek Lap Kok Airport will [...]
Honda's withdrawal from Formula 1 racing in Dec 2008 to save money may give it an advantage over rivals: fresh blood from an elite cadre of R&D engineers to improve its Honda Civic and Odyssey models. Honda reassigned the racing' [...]
Crude oil prices fell under $70 a barrel level on Monday [31 Aug 2009] after a stock market plunge in China sent jitters across world markets about prospects for global economic recovery. NYMEX light sweet crude for Oct 2009 delivery [...]
Canadian Solar has been granted rights to develop a 500-megawatt solar power plant in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, the company announced Wednesday [26 Aug 2009]. Baotou is a manufacturing city on the Yellow River in Inner Mongolia with a population of [...]
This article belongs to the Singapore inflation watch story arc.
Singapore petrol pump prices are up again on Tuesday [25 Aug 2009], for the third time in a month. At Caltex and ExxonMobil, prices of petrol and diesel were raised by [...]
Heads up. Crude oil prices on NYMEX have just hit the fabled $75 resistance level. In fact nymex.com itself went down momentarily, probably overloaded by excited onlookers. It's now back up. This is a key resistance level that I have been' [...]
NYMEX crude oil prices jumped on Friday [21 Aug 2009] to a 2009 high above $74, propelled by a weak US dollar, tumbling American crude reserves, rising equities and positive eurozone data. New York's main futures contract, light sweet' [...]
NYMEX crude oil prices eased below $73 per barrel on Friday [21 Aug 2009], reversing an earlier surge to a 7-week high. Data on Wednesday from the EIA showed a surprise 8.4 million barrel plunge in weekly US crude [...]
Sales of private homes hit a new high in July 2009, surging 52% from June, surprising most analysts. Market watchers said an element of speculation could be involved although a significant portion of the sales was backed by real demand. [...]
There have been some updates for 2008/2009 onward to the V-KOOL solar film specifications since my earlier Mar 2007 post. The J83 film remains the same for the front sides, while the front windscreen is now using the X75 film, and [...]
Just back today after sending my car back to V-KOOL Singapore to remedy a very slight defect. I had been ignoring it but all the while Biow had been complaining about it as it was more visible from the passenger [...]
Scattered reports around the web suggest that there may be a possible upcoming 2015 Lamborghini Gallardo hybrid super-car that was disclosed by the Lamborghini CEO in a recent German magazine interview :
peakoil.com -> forecastfortomorrow.com :
Lamborghini is jumping on the hybrid [...]
Seagate Technology announced on Tuesday [4 Aug 2009] it would relocate its hard disk drive manufacturing operations from Ang Mo Kio to other existing Seagate facilities by end-2010, laying off some 2,000 employees in the process. The [...]
Crude oil prices shot higher for the third session in a row on Monday [4 Aug 2009], driven by improved economic recovery prospects and a weaker dollar. NYMEX light sweet crude for Sep 2009 delivery jumped $2.13 to close [...]
peakoil.com -> reuters.com :
The US has experienced a surge in investment in wind power over the past 4 years, more than tripling its ability to turn wind into electricity. But construction has been on land and largely in America's rural' [...]
Crude oil prices rose Friday [24 Jul 2009], powered by optimism that the recession-stricken US economy is on the mend after a series of positive corporate earnings reports. NYMEX crude oil for Sep 2009 delivery, climbed 89 cents to [...]
Mercedes-AMG, the performance brand of Mercedes-Benz, is developing an electric version of its upcoming SLS AMG sports car. The electric SLS AMG uses 4 electric motors with a combined peak output of 392 kW (526 hp) and torque of 880 [...]
greencarcongress.com -> hondanews.info :
Honda announced plans to begin sales in Japan of the CR-Z sporty hybrid model in February 2010 and Fit Hybrid before the end of 2010. By combining these two models with the currently available Insight [...]
Apologies for the recent outage of this blog as well as the live quotes, live gold and other sections of the site. My hosting provider moved the server to another IP address and the DNS propagation took the usual [...]
The Mozilla Firefox 3.5.1 release (direct download link provided for the more commonly-used Win32 EN-US build) fixes a critical security vulnerability in the Tracemonkey Javascript engine as described on the Mozilla blog :
A bug discovered last week in Firefox [...]
Toyota unveiled on Tuesday [14 Jul 2009] its first Lexus sedan available only as a hybrid, hoping that the popularity of fuel-efficient vehicles will help the luxury range buck the economic downturn. The 2009/2010 Toyota Lexus HS250h sedan [...]
Exxon Mobil and biotech firm Synthetic Genomics (SGI) announced on Tuesday [14 Jul 2009] a new alliance to produce alternative fuel made from photosynthetic algae. Exxon Mobil expects to spend more than $600 million on the project. Under the [...]
Crude oil prices rose, snapping three days of declines, as share markets advanced and an industry report showed a drop in gasoline stockpiles in the US. NYMEX crude oil prices for Aug 2009 delivery rose to $60.60 per barrel. [...]
This article belongs to the GM, Ford and Chrysler bankruptcy watch story arc.
A new General Motors emerged from a whirlwind 40-day bankruptcy on Friday [10 Jul 2009] - far more quickly than most industry-watchers had expected. The US [...]
News flash.
NYMEX crude oil prices just fell below the critical $60 support level, currently at $59.78 at the point of writing. That was not much of a rebound, was it? Oil prices are now headed toward the 50-dma level, which currently [...]
Crude oil prices rebounded from a 7-week low as traders took the view that the decline in prices during the longest losing streak this year was overdone. The IMF said a rebound in the global economy next year will be [...]
If you look at Google's Gmail editor toolbar, you might notice that there is no option to insert an image (whether photo, picture, or whatever) into your Gmail message, unlike let's say, on PHPBB forums where there is a picture icon for [...]
Crude oil prices dived underneath $63 per barrel on Tuesday [7 Jul 2009], hitting the lowest levels since May, amid heightened concerns about energy demand in a struggling global economy. NYMEX light sweet crude for Aug 2009 delivery tumbled [...]
German auto maker Volkswagen hopes to turn out its first all-electric car in 2013, VW CEO Martin Winterkorn said Friday [3 Jul 2009]. Volkswagen signed a preliminary agreement in May with BYD of China to produce hybrid or electric [...]
peakoil.com -> presstv.ir :
Shell has suspended its operations in the Western Niger Delta, giving in to increasing pressure from MEND rebels in the region. Shell confirmed the closure of its oil plants in the region following a spike [...]
NYMEX crude oil prices rose to the highest in 8 months, set for its biggest quarterly gain since 1990, as the US dollar declined and militant attacks in Nigeria raised concern that supplies may be disrupted. Shell [...]
This article belongs to the Singapore inflation watch story arc.
After two quarters of downward adjustments, Singapore household electricity tariffs will go up by 6.93% or 1.25 cents per kWh from 1 Jul 2009 to 30 Sep 2009. Electricity supplier [...]
General Motors, racing to emerge from bankruptcy, said it has conducted the first pre-production Chevrolet Volt test drive on 23 Jun 2009, more than a week ahead of schedule. New vehicles reach the pre-production stage once the parts [...]
The Obama Administration will lend Tesla Motors $465 million to build an electric car and the batteries to propel it. It's one of three loans totaling almost $8 billion that the Department of Energy has awarded to spur the development [...]
Scientists in the US are developing synthetic trees capable of collecting carbon around 1,000 times faster than the real thing. As the wind blows though plastic "leaves," the carbon is trapped in a chamber, compressed and stored as liquid carbon dioxide. [...]
Nissan has sought to knock down the hybrid hype. "We do not put electric cars and hybrids in the same category," Nissan CEO Ghosn told shareholders. "Hybrids are fuel-efficient technology. EV's are no fuel. Hybrids are an optimisation of" [...]
Apparently Flickr is down. At least for me.
I'm getting broken image links where all the photos used to be.
Not sure if it's an isolated case or if the issue is on my ISP side.
I'm using Google Picasaweb to host the screenshot.
I've been switching to [...]
Crude oil prices fell below $70 per barrel on Monday [22 Jun 2009], extending the previous session's drop of more than 2%, as bearish sentiment over gasoline markets in the US continued to dominate investors' concerns. NYMEX crude oil [...]
Mitsubishi, the maker of the Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car, plans to cut the vehicle's purchase price by more than half to less than 2 million yen ($21,000) as government incentives and tighter emission rules boost demand for fuel-efficient cars. Mitsubishi is unveiling' [...]
Japan's GDP shrank at a record 14.2% annual pace in Q1 2009, the worst contraction since the government began keeping records in 1955. Demand from China's $586 billion stimulus is helping to stabilize exports. Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso's' [...]
Taiwan has passed a bill on renewable energy in a move which is expected to attract NT$30 billion (US$937 million) worth of investment. Parliament on Friday [12 Jun 2009] approved the bill, which is aimed at adding 6,500 to 10,000 megawatts [...]
Zhao Hang, who helped devise China's auto-stimulus package, is facing demand from car buyers battling an unexpected consequence - two-month waiting lists. Zhao said : "Given the world economic situation, demand for cars is surprisingly strong in China." Beijing drivers,' [...]
This article belongs to the GM, Ford and Chrysler bankruptcy watch story arc.
General Motors filed for bankruptcy on Monday [1 Jun 2009], the largest ever in US manufacturing, as the Obama administration took the first steps to try [...]
This article belongs to the GM, Ford and Chrysler bankruptcy watch story arc.
General Motors will file for bankruptcy on Monday [1 Jun 2009], as the government tries to revive the 100-year-old automaker once seen as the symbol of American [...]
This article belongs to the Polar melting, Arctic mining and mineral resources story arc.
Canada has published the first comprehensive atlas of Arctic geology - everything from continental plates to rock types that signal where to hunt for gold, diamonds, [...]
This article belongs to the GM, Ford and Chrysler bankruptcy watch story arc.
General Motors announced plans to cut 23,000 U.S. jobs by 2011, drop its Pontiac brand and slash 40% of its dealer network in its latest bid to [...]
Honda, which sells the FCX Clarity hydrogen car, may also develop plug-in electric models as US policy shifts to favor battery-powered autos. US President Barack Obama has announced no new federal effort to promote hydrogen. Honda still [...]
This article belongs to the GM, Ford and Chrysler bankruptcy watch story arc.
Chrysler filed for bankruptcy, a first by a major US automaker, on Thursday [30 Apr 2009] and announced a deal with Fiat, after being pummeled by sliding auto [...]
Been looking around to see if people have put up swine flu maps.
Apparently there are quite a few. Here's a roundup of 3 of them :
1. H1N1 Swine Flu on Google Maps - this might be the first swine flu map' [...]
Mexican President Felipe Calderon told his people to stay home from Friday [1 May 2009] for a five-day partial shutdown of the economy, after the World Health Organization said a swine flu pandemic was imminent. Calderon ordered government offices and private [...]
This article belongs to the GM, Ford and Chrysler bankruptcy watch story arc.
Chrysler will proceed with Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection now that talks with debtholders have broken down, an administration official said on Thursday [30 Apr 2009].
- This is breaking [...]
How time flies. A whole week has gone by since the Earth Day 2009 post, and not a new blog posting in sight.
Haven't had much of a break since the CSEP (Certified Systems Engineering Professional) exam held by IES which' [...]
