Archive for the ‘Broken’ Category
Friday, March 4th, 2011
Living in Malaysia, I've come to accept a little bit of 'post tax'. I receive somewhere around 4 out of 5 items mailed unrecorded to me from overseas. I don't mind the occasional credit card going astray - it never seems to result in fraudulent transactions. Toys and clothes for ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Sometime around 3pm the Internet connection died. The phone is also dead (no dialtone). There's no sign of my friendly local technicians at the local switchbox, so perhaps it's not just this area. Then again, perhaps nobody knows. I tried to fill in a "Contact Us" form at www.tm.com.my but ...
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Saturday, February 5th, 2011
When did that happen? In a demo that reminded me of days working in large software houses, I showed my brother-in-law how he could add Google to his IE9 search engine list by just going to Google's homepage and right-clicking the search engine drop-down list for the "Add Google Search..." ...
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Sunday, January 16th, 2011
Pos Malaysia have updated their website in the last few days, with new page markup and new URLs. Either one of those changes would have broken the old osCommerce shipping modules I wrote. I won't be updating the old shipping modules any more, as random, non-improving changes to postal service ...
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
While I was testing the mobile version of the search at spider.my I noticed that my Nokia phone's browser was briefly presenting an unformatted version of the page, then applying styles, then adding a small image. Doing that once would have been expected, but it shouldn't have been doing it ...
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