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Hosting death trap (NME)

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This is my second bad encounter with New Media Express the domain reg and hosting company. MyTradingPost.com.sg was ready on 4th March and we requested a change in the DNS of the domain to point to the our overseas hosting. This typically takes 24-48 hours. But until today, the domain still goes to the old hosting where we've hosted a file to do redirect to wordpress.

1) Why can't the company make dns change a feature on your hosting control panel so that the users can change it themselves?

2) Why does it take so long to change the DNS of the domain?

As I've found out hosting ANYTHING with New Media Express is just a death trap. They are expensive and refuses to cooperate as long as you do you want to or use their service for any reason. It's even worse if you try to move out of using their service like try to make a domain/hosting transfer. Not to mention service is only during office hours, so what happens if you need help after hours? And yet they continue to sit in the "Approved" vendors by IDA. How many more have to suffer?

Project Shop Post is now MyTradingPost

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People have been wondering so what have I been up to since I left MyFatPocket.com? Working on my not so secret project previously named ishopipost.com. So after 2 months of hard work. The first public version is out!!! After discussion with the people behind this postal savings, MyTradingPost.com.sg is the name we decided to go with. If you are still using vPost, now it's time to save 20% off shipping. If you were using the in store postal service, you'll save about 40%.

It's just an early version but don't be merciful with your feedback and criticisms. I'm ready to improve. Because the site was done to bring:

  1. Cheaper shipping when you buy from USA.
  2. An easy to use website. No registrations. No going back and forth between sites. Just click and start shopping like how you used to and when you are ready our service form is right next to your favourite shopping site.
  3. An online community so you can discuss about what to buy, where to buy and most importantly, you can save even more by consolidating your orders together.

Give it a try and tell me what you think.

MyTradingPost

Air Guitar? How about... Air Sex?

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This is quite random but I thought it's rather interesting so I'm going to put it here on my site. Hope it doesn't destroy the image of this blog. Hahaha... But it's quite interesting the things people do in this world. When you can't do the real thing, do the air thing.

Does the financial industry need social media?

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I have some friends who are completely off the social media radar, meaning Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Friendster etc... A quick observation, almost all of them (except 1 who is a phd student in biomedical research) work in the financial industry. The few friends I have in the financial industry that actually have a Facebook account use it for little more than photo uploading and tagging (There is flickr and picassa for that you know?!?! But I guess they don't.). I have a few deductions of my own of this phenomenon. This is of course not scientific research and just some retrospective observations.

Time

Yes if you work in the financial industry, especially investment banking, trading or some million dollar position, you will almost most definitely not have the spare time like the commoners. You will most likely be spending time a lot of time at work or want to cos it makes you tons of money. Your idea of having a good time to end the day is probably a spin of your new Ferrari or sitting at the deck of your beach house with a glass of wine, or chilling with a couple of friends at a members-only club. The internet and all the entertainment found there is for the commoners who can't afford these luxuries. You don't need social networking because you can easily drive/jet to a friend. In fact the "less friends" you have the more privilege your circle.

Even if you work in some other department that doesn't make a million dollars, then most likely overtime is the name of the game. You just don't get off early enough to post a status or play cafe world/restaurant city or the likes. You get home to your family or TV (something more passive) and it's bed time.

Relevance

Most of your work doesn't involve anything to do with Facebook. You don't really care if people play games there. As mentioned before, there isn't an activity there that catches your attention. So you don't bother to try of figure it out. Your preferred mode of communication is still email or sms or a phone call. In fact the phone call is the best because it's the most efficient and you get your answers right away.

Security

Working in the financial industry, you're probably sitting behind the thickest (fire)wall in the world. No Facebook, Flickr, Youtube, or anything that might compromise security. So you can be like your friend who works in a marketing agency who updates his/her facebook every hour and has a good reason to do so even if the boss catches him/her. The word is "Market Research" if you don't already know.

Mobile Phone

You use a blackberry or a non-3G phone. You use a blackberry because the company gave you one to check your emails 24/7. You really hate to touch it least to say figure out if it will connect you to Facebook. That phone is the work phone and it stays that way. I do however have 1 friend (F) working in the financial industry who uses an iPhone. A couple of us were having lunch one day and one other friend (from the media industry) (M) started showing me some cool apps she had. F suddenly exclaimed, you mean your phone can do that. M, just download it. F, do you have to pay. M, for some but many of them are free. Me, So what do you use your iPhone for if you don't have apps. So we all know the answer... Emails. Ok it wasn't that bad F figured that the maps function was useful for driving as well. So there you have it...

The Exception

Except for photos, for some reason, no matter which industry you work in if you are born a photo slut, you are just a photo slut. You have a million photos on Facebook and you tag all your friends in (maybe for a while at least.)

Do you work in the financial industry? Or have friends that work there? Know someone really savvy from that industry? Leave a comment below.

British Airways and Misa Travel

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Long time since I complained about someone/something but recently Misa Travel wants to charge Sab another $125 for "changing" her flight time, because the schedule wasn't ready when she first bought her ticket. Let's see who's going to be at the front of this for British Airways and Misa Travel for this. Should have just bought Singapore Airlines. So scammy, charge less for air tickets and then load all these weird charges behind. If you're interested stay tuned on the blog. If you work for BA, email me at mingliang [at] mingspot.com. We have much to talk about.

Update (25 Feb 2010).

Misa Travel has decided to exercise some understanding of the situation and waived their portion of $50 of this $125. I'm waiting for British Airways' reply now. It can be hectic to run around for the $75 but just like the incident with HTC, it's about fairness to the consumer and the fact that some companies just try to get away with all kinds of fees.

Very unhappy that British Airways does not have a hotline for complains and not even an email address, just a webform which I do not know who receives and don't know if anyone will reply to me because there isn't even a confirmation email that the complain has been lodged. Very very bad system. I give Misa Travel credit for resolving this case within a day. It's not a lot of money right? I've explained the situation so just do the right thing.

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