Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Thursday, March 24th, 2011
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I'm taking spider.my down in anticipation of a move from Malaysia in the next few months. The split-brain nature of the site, with a front-end application on a small local VPS and the search (and a few other bits and bobs) back-end on a ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2011
A couple of days ago when I wrote about how I thought Malaysia should generate electricity from the sun, I realised that the picture that I carry in my head might not be the same as a reader might form in their own. Worse, I dashed off an image of ...
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
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'Part two' has some better images that should make things a bit clearer!
I keep suggesting this as a 'real' solar power alternative whenever someone says (as they invariably do) that solar power cannot produce enough energy to compete with ...
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Friday, March 4th, 2011
Living in Malaysia, I've come to accept a little bit of 'post tax'. I receive somewhere around 4 out of 5 items mailed unrecorded to me from overseas. I don't mind the occasional credit card going astray - it never seems to result in fraudulent transactions. Toys and clothes for ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Sometime around 3pm the Internet connection died. The phone is also dead (no dialtone). There's no sign of my friendly local technicians at the local switchbox, so perhaps it's not just this area. Then again, perhaps nobody knows. I tried to fill in a "Contact Us" form at www.tm.com.my but ...
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