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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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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
[caption id="attachment_773" align="alignright" width="174" caption="Pos Malaysia"][/caption]
I maintain some Malaysian shipping modules for the popular e-commerce software osCommerce which allow local e-shops to include up-to-date automatic shipping quotes from Pos Malaysia (Pos Laju and Pos Air Parcel) in the order total. If you run an e-shop, being able to pass on ...
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
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'Animals' is currently a very short flashcard set. The issue of image copyright is bothering me. I used WikiMedia Commons for the images in these flashcards, but it required a bit of brute-force searching to find images that were totally unencumbered by copyright. Most of ...
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_722" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Solar Eclipse January 2010, as seen in Henan, China"][/caption]
I was so excited when I heard about there was going to be a partial solar eclipse visible in Malaysia today. It was an annular eclipse in some places, such as this photograph taken from The Malaysian Insider ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Many thanks to Chew Hong Liang, who helped me to test the new 'Copy cardset' feature and provided the captions and audio clips for the flashcards. Quite a lot more people were involved in choosing the name for the cardset! 五官 - 'wǔguān' in Pinyin was suggested as the best ...
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