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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
BrickOS was an integral part of some work I did many years ago and I've been trying to dig the code up recently. It seems as though it fell out of the Ubuntu repositories some time ago (in as legos before the name change), so I'm currently installing the source ...
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Monday, March 28th, 2011
[caption id="attachment_1252" align="alignright" width="150" caption="TNB's wind power in Malaysia map"][/caption]
Just a quick note to myself really - many, many times online I'd replied to people saying "why doesn't Malaysia use wind power?" with my belief that it doesn't have any. I couldn't find a good source for that before today, ...
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Saturday, March 26th, 2011
I thought at first glance this might be an error in an website I'm working on, so looked into it a little bit further - turns out it's nothing at all.
I turned on request debugging in Spinneret and could see that the Sun Java plugin in FireFox was sending the ...
Posted in software, Spinneret, Useful | No Comments »
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
[caption id="attachment_1225" align="alignright" width="150" caption="No more spider.my"][/caption]
I'm taking spider.my down in anticipation of a move from Malaysia in the next few months. The split-brain nature of the site, with a front-end application on a small local VPS and the search (and a few other bits and bobs) back-end on a ...
Posted in Life, Spider.my | 3 Comments »
Friday, March 18th, 2011
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 in their own. Worse, I dashed off an image of ...
Posted in Bolehtics, Breaktime, Life, Philosophy, Useful | 1 Comment »