Archive for the ‘Bolehtics’ Category
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
No Streamyx again, after a half hour dropout yesterday. Starting before 6pm this evening and still out at 9:30PM as I write. I tried phoning 1300 88 9515 first, but got bored after about 5 minutes. Among the adverts (do they have to spam me with adverts for their products ...
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Monday, June 14th, 2010
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 keep the arches being built at the Penang Botanical gardens (Warning: abysmal Flash site). Anil Netto (who ...
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_868" align="alignright" width="136" caption="TM's high-speed internet service"][/caption]
TM has announced its new 'High Speed Broadband' products, called Unifi, with the Prime Minister making the announcement. TM is Telekom Malaysia, the telecommunications monopoly in Malaysia. There is an alleged telecommunications regulator called the MCMC (Multimed... Commission, or something) but it doesn't ...
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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' ...
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_641" align="alignright" width="240"] Old DAP rocket with Inkscape guidelines - everything is wonky![/caption]
I was thinking of writing an article about the Jalur Gemilang - 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 ...
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