Archive for the ‘Breaktime’ Category
Friday, June 26th, 2009
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Farrah Fawcett also died today. I struggle with words around bereavement, not having any off-the-shelf ideas about what happens when people die. To me, a person - their personality - is something made up of all my experiences and memories of the person. When they ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
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I was manually adding some reports of Michael Jackson's death to the crawl queue at spider.my this morning, when I noticed that one of the machines doing indexing had choked on a page. It wasn't long ago that I added some code ...
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
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Well, pardon me for keyword whoring, but I just had to write something about the article in The Malaysian Insider: No porn please, we are civil servants about the Prime Minister's reply to a written question from Teresa Kok. It's no good, while I'm ...
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Saturday, June 13th, 2009
Jess asked me what was going on with bloggerunited.com yesterday, as there's currently only a domain-parking page there. I had a quick search online, and found LithiumMind's blog that suggested it was suffering from bandwidth exhaustion last month. I often wondered how much bloggerunited was paying for bandwidth, as they ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
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The Malaysian web can be a frustrating experience if you're not using any Microsoft products. Maybank2u have an 'online banking buddy' to help their customers ask questions and avoid giving them answers. We were recently wondering about changing online merchant payment processors, and considered ...
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