Archive for the ‘Bolehtics’ Category

Wind power in Malaysia – the missing map

Monday, March 28th, 2011

[caption id="attachment_1252" align="alignright" width="150" caption="TNB's wind power in Malaysia map"][/caption] Just a quick note to myself really - many, many times online I'd replied to people saying "why doesn't Malaysia use wind power?" with my belief that it doesn't have any. I couldn't find a good source for that  before today, ...

Power from the sun (and gun): Bandar Dataran Solar

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 ...

Solar power in Malaysia – the residential area solar roof

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

[caption id="attachment_1200" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Malaysian house, blue sky (on a rainy day)"][/caption] 'Part two' has some better images that should make things a bit clearer! I keep suggesting this as a 'real' solar power alternative whenever someone says (as they invariably do) that solar power cannot produce enough energy to compete with ...

Malaysian maps and a geographic locations API … kind of

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011

I've been wanting to add some Malaysian mapping facility to spider.my for some time. I often go to JUPEM's website - the "Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia" to see what they have to offer. I'm invariably sorry when I do that - their website takes forever to load and ...

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 ...