Archive for the ‘Bolehtics’ Category

Unrequited love and Malaysia

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

The Nut Graph asks this morning "Stay or leave Malaysia?". I think they published an article on the theme of Unrequited Love not so long ago, but I imagine it's a recurring theme for many Malaysians, or anybody who has ever lived here for long enough to develop an 'attachment' ...

Is the new DAP rocket the wrong colour?

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_641" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Old DAP rocket with Inkscape guidelines - everything is wonky!"][/caption] I was thinking of writing an article about the Jalur Gemilaing - the Malaysian national flag - and the importance of very carefully specifying your 'brand', and remembered I'd written about Malayisia's Democratic Action Party (DAP) logo ...

Old articles from isono.my

Monday, August 10th, 2009

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 same reason I'm not going to finish this sentence. ...

Where in the world was Altantuya?

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

That's the problem with announcing, ahead of articles, what you're going to write about. You end up writing about anything but.  I was reading Susan Loone's blog recently, and followed some links to an article about the few remaining photographs of the tragic Altantuya Shaariibuu. Altantuya is a beautiful young ...

Political Party Logos – part 3

Monday, February 16th, 2009

DAP have a page devoted to an explanation of their logo, as it embodies some of their fundamental principles - more on those later. Again, I copy and paste the bitmapped logo from their website and construct a new one from elements in Inkscape. One of the first things I ...