Archive for the ‘Breaktime’ Category
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
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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 ...
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
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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 ...
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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' ...
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