Archive for the ‘Life’ 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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Friday, January 28th, 2011
I met a couple of friends in Vientiane recently (25th Jan 2011) as they were touring Laos. I had half a day free at the end of the visit, so I executed a 'brute force search' of Vientiane to find the cost of shipping parcels overseas. Vientiane is a lovely, ...
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
No Streamyx again, after a half hour dropout yesterday. Starting before 6pm this evening and still out at 9:30PM as I write. I tried phoning 1300 88 9515 first, but got bored after about 5 minutes. Among the adverts (do they have to spam me with adverts for their products ...
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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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