Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Small, free country flag icons / images for download

Monday, August 9th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_977" align="alignright" width="221" caption="Flags from famfamfam.com"][/caption] 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 ...

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 ...

The ‘One’ theme again: 1Malaysia, Unifi, Monopoly

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 ...

Pos Malaysia shipping rates download

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_796" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Download Pos Malaysia shipping rates at spider.my"][/caption] 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 ...