Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Monday, August 9th, 2010
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I hope this saves someone a little bit of work. I wanted to find some small country flag icons to use on a project that shows a flag next to where a particular data item (a datum on my lawn). I searched through a ...
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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
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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 ...
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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 ...
Posted in Bolehtics, Breaktime, FOSS, Life, Philosophy | 2 Comments »
Friday, March 26th, 2010
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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 ...
Posted in Bolehtics, Broadband, Broken, Life, Money | 1 Comment »
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
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Nearly there! Yesterday's marathon session to rip Pos Malaysia's rating data and make it persistent on spider.my made today's job a little bit easier. The first part of the API is done: there's a minimal interface for obtaining a single ...
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