Farrah Fawcett will always be an Angel
Farrah Fawcett also died today. I struggle with words around bereavement, not having any off-the-shelf ideas about what happens when people die. To me, a person – their personality – is something made...
View ArticleClues to the TBH ‘black blog’ author
I was reading Lim Kit Siang’s blog recently and saw the article about the Teoh Beng Hock ‘black blog’. LKS is calling it a ‘black blog’ because it makes some serious allegations about wrong-doing in...
View ArticleEaster eggs at Google and Firefox
It was my birthday a few days ago, so I told everybody that I was now “The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything”. If you’re not familiar with Douglas Adams‘ book (or the BBC TV serialisation)...
View ArticleOld articles from isono.my
I had this great idea to write about politics and open source software, and rented isono.my for a year as a domain to do it on. I decided after a few months that I wouldn’t continue with it, for … the...
View ArticleThe Iron Giant – the best unknown animated movie
When I first saw The Iron Giant, I went looking for it because I saw it in a list of animated movies on Wikipedia. I’d never heard of it but it seemed to have rave reviews. I still can’t believe how...
View ArticleDistrict 9 is a better movie than Avatar
I might never have watched District 9, but Jess came back from her sister’s house with a sack full of DVDs recently. Among the DVDs was District 9. I recognised the “No Humans” warning sign from the...
View ArticleAdded ‘HTTP Status Codes’ to wossis.com
This isn’t the most exciting of flashcard sets ever! I wanted something to test a lot of work I’d done behind the scenes with Spinneret (the webserver that wossis.com is built on). It was a good test –...
View ArticleUbuntu 9.10 on Pentium MMX 233MHz (very old PC!)
Among the old computers that end up on my desk is a Pentium MMX 233MHz PC from … I don’t know, the dawn of time, probably. It can’t have been made any later than late 1990s. I use it for testing code...
View ArticleThe Ministry of Tourism Poll: Penang Botanical Garden Arches
There’s plenty of ‘information’ available in Malaysia, and just a few people publicly questioning its quality. The Ministry of Tourism is conducting a poll on its website to see whether people want to...
View ArticlePower from the sun (and gun): Bandar Dataran Solar
A couple of days ago when I wrote about how I thought Malaysia should generate electricity from the sun, I realised that the picture that I carry in my head might not be the same as a reader might form...
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