Archive for the ‘Breaktime’ Category

Haiwan (‘Animals’ in Bahasa Malaysia) at wossis.com

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Haiwan - 'Animals' in Bahasa Malaysia"][/caption] Haiwan is a copy of the Animals flashcards with Bahasa Malaysia sound clips and flashcard captions. It has been a very long time since I touched wossis.com, and I can't help thinking that it shows! I've been doing a lot of ...

The Ministry of Tourism Poll: Penang Botanical Garden Arches

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 ...

Ubuntu 9.10 on Pentium MMX 233MHz (very old PC!)

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Among the old computers that end up on my desk is a Pentium MMX 233MHz PC from ... I don't know, the dawn of time, probably. It can't have been made any later than late 1990s. I use it for testing code behaviour on low-resource systems. It did have Slackware ...

Added ‘Animals’ flashcards to wossis.com

Monday, February 1st, 2010

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Animals flashcards"][/caption] 'Animals' is currently a very short flashcard set. The issue of image copyright is bothering me. I used WikiMedia Commons for the images in these flashcards, but it required a bit of brute-force searching to find images that were totally unencumbered by copyright. Most of ...

Added Atom Feed to wossis.com

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_730" align="alignright" width="100" caption="Feed Icon for Atom/RSS etc"][/caption] It required a bit more work than I was expecting, but wossis.com now has a shiny new Atom feed for updated cardsets. Atom is a format and protocol for providing news (the 'feed') about a website. You may have seen the little ...