Archive for the ‘Breaktime’ Category

Power from the sun (and gun): Bandar Dataran Solar

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 ...

Solar power in Malaysia – the residential area solar roof

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

[caption id="attachment_1200" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Malaysian house, blue sky (on a rainy day)"][/caption] 'Part two' has some better images that should make things a bit clearer! I keep suggesting this as a 'real' solar power alternative whenever someone says (as they invariably do) that solar power cannot produce enough energy to compete with ...

Haiwan (‘Animals’ in Bahasa Malaysia) at wossis.com

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Haiwan - 'Animals' in Bahasa Malaysia"][/caption] Haiwan is a copy of the Animals flashcards with Bahasa Malaysia sound clips and flashcard captions. It has been a very long time since I touched wossis.com, and I can't help thinking that it shows! I've been doing a lot of ...

The Ministry of Tourism Poll: Penang Botanical Garden Arches

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 ...

Ubuntu 9.10 on Pentium MMX 233MHz (very old PC!)

Monday, February 15th, 2010

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 behaviour on low-resource systems. It did have Slackware ...