Archive for the ‘Philosophy’ Category

Unrequited love and Malaysia

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

The Nut Graph asks this morning "Stay or leave Malaysia?". I think they published an article on the theme of Unrequited Love not so long ago, but I imagine it's a recurring theme for many Malaysians, or anybody who has ever lived here for long enough to develop an 'attachment' ...

Removing the “powered by WordPress” attribution text

Friday, December 11th, 2009

I saw a request for help with English grammar from a member of a forum I often visit, so had a quick peep at his website. It looked great, nice copyright message and all. He seemed to be suggesting that it was all his own work, so I had a ...

Who would Jesus bomb? Lucky find on YouTube

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Saw this on YouTube, liked it a lot. No more to say on the subject right now, than: watch it, experience an emotion, keep it to yourself. OK, you can tell me, as long as you don't want an argument. I'm posting this purely for 'liked it'. A lot. To save ...

Code golf at Stackoverflow. Byte array substring searching.

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

I don't know what I was searching for when I found this 'code golf' challenge at Stack Overflow. The challenge was to find a substring of bytes in a byte array, returning the start position. It cost me half an hour or so, so I thought I'd post my attempt ...

Everybody should question

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Nobody should question When I first came to Malaysia in 2005, I was eager to find out more about the country I was going to live in, the country my wife was born in and soon our children were  to be born in. We were staying with in-laws for the birth ...