Archive for the ‘Philosophy’ Category
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
We recently returned to the UK with two young children from a financially cavalier extended 'babymoon' in Malaysia. Part of the impetus to move back again was my reluctance to put my children through the Malaysian state education system which emphasises racist division and religious practice, though possibly not in ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
A couple of days ago when I wrote about how I thought Malaysia should generate electricity from the sun, I realised that the picture that I carry in my head might not be the same as a reader might form in their own. Worse, I dashed off an image 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 ...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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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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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
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I might never have watched District 9, but Jess came back from her sister's house with a sack full of DVDs recently. Among the DVDs was District 9. I recognised the "No Humans" warning sign from the limited marketing I'd seen.
I watched the movie on ...
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