Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Friday, January 28th, 2011
I met a couple of friends in Vientiane recently (25th Jan 2011) as they were touring Laos. I had half a day free at the end of the visit, so I executed a 'brute force search' of Vientiane to find the cost of shipping parcels overseas. Vientiane is a lovely, ...
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
No Streamyx again, after a half hour dropout yesterday. Starting before 6pm this evening and still out at 9:30PM as I write. I tried phoning 1300 88 9515 first, but got bored after about 5 minutes. Among the adverts (do they have to spam me with adverts for their products ...
Posted in Bolehtics, Broadband, Broken, Life, Money | No Comments »
Monday, August 9th, 2010
[caption id="attachment_977" align="alignright" width="221" caption="Flags from famfamfam.com"][/caption]
I hope this saves someone a little bit of work. I wanted to find some small country flag icons to use on a project that shows a flag next to where a particular data item (a datum on my lawn). I searched through a ...
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Saturday, July 24th, 2010
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Haiwan - 'Animals' in Bahasa Malaysia"][/caption]
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 ...
Posted in Bolehtics, Breaktime, FOSS, Life, Philosophy | 2 Comments »