Archive for the ‘Breaktime’ Category
Saturday, July 24th, 2010
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
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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 ...
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