Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Royal Mail airsure track and trace: “Sorry. There is no data …”

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 ...

TM Streamyx and telephone down Port Dickson area 24th February 2011

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 ...

Laos shipping quotations for e-commerce (osCommerce, Zen Cart etc)

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, ...

Streamyx down Port Dickson area Sept 29th 2010

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 ...

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 ...