Archive for the ‘Bolehtics’ Category

Old articles from isono.my

Monday, August 10th, 2009

I had this great idea to write about politics and open source software, and rented isono.my for a year as a domain to do it on. I decided after a few months that I wouldn't continue with it, for ... the same reason I'm not going to finish this sentence. ...

Where in the world was Altantuya?

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

That's the problem with announcing, ahead of articles, what you're going to write about. You end up writing about anything but.  I was reading Susan Loone's blog recently, and followed some links to an article about the few remaining photographs of the tragic Altantuya Shaariibuu. Altantuya is a beautiful young ...

Political Party Logos – part 3

Monday, February 16th, 2009

DAP have a page devoted to an explanation of their logo, as it embodies some of their fundamental principles - more on those later. Again, I copy and paste the bitmapped logo from their website and construct a new one from elements in Inkscape. One of the first things I ...

Political Party Logos – part 2

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Converting a simple bitmapped logo, such as the Parti Keadilan Rakyat logo is not difficult. The first step is to find a good example, and I took the ballot-slip image from the top-right of the PKR website. You can copy and paste the image into a new Inkscape document. The ...

Political Party Logos – part 1

Monday, February 16th, 2009

Perhaps the most apparent aspect of a political party, after its most famous or infamous members, is its logo. Logos are spectacularly obvious in Malaysia around election times, as large flags line every street, hanging from bamboo poles planted in the ground, hanging from every building and plastered onto any ...