Archive for the ‘Breaktime’ Category

Added ‘HTTP Status Codes’ to wossis.com

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_725" align="alignright" width="200" caption="HTTP Status Codes flashcards"][/caption] This isn't the most exciting of flashcard sets ever! I wanted something to test a lot of work I'd done behind the scenes with Spinneret (the webserver that wossis.com is built on). It was a good test - it broke it! There was ...

2010 January 15th Solar Eclipse (not) seen in Malaysia

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_722" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Solar Eclipse January 2010, as seen in Henan, China"][/caption] I was so excited when I heard about there was going to be a partial solar eclipse visible in Malaysia today. It was an annular eclipse in some places, such as this photograph taken from The Malaysian Insider ...

Added 五官 (face parts) – at wossis.com

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Many thanks to Chew Hong Liang, who helped me to test the new 'Copy cardset' feature and provided the captions and audio clips for the flashcards. Quite a lot more people were involved in choosing the name for the cardset! 五官 - 'wǔguān' in Pinyin was suggested as the best ...

District 9 is a better movie than Avatar

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_699" align="alignright" width="240" caption="District 9"][/caption] I might never have watched District 9, but Jess came back from her sister's house with a sack full of DVDs recently. Among the DVDs was District 9. I recognised the "No Humans" warning sign from the limited marketing I'd seen. I watched the movie on ...

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' ...