Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Friday, March 26th, 2010
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TM has announced its new 'High Speed Broadband' products, called Unifi, with the Prime Minister making the announcement. TM is Telekom Malaysia, the telecommunications monopoly in Malaysia. There is an alleged telecommunications regulator called the MCMC (Multimed... Commission, or something) but it doesn't ...
Posted in Bolehtics, Broadband, Broken, Life, Money | 1 Comment »
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
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Update January 2011 - there won't be any rates download for some time. If you're looking for a shipping module for osCommerce / Zen Cart try this article. If you're looking for simplified access to Pos Malaysia's shipping rates, you ...
Posted in Fixed, Life, Money, software | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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I maintain some Malaysian shipping modules for the popular e-commerce software osCommerce which allow local e-shops to include up-to-date automatic shipping quotes from Pos Malaysia (Pos Laju and Pos Air Parcel) in the order total. If you run an e-shop, being able to pass on ...
Posted in Broken, Life, Money, Philosophy, software | 9 Comments »
Monday, February 1st, 2010
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'Animals' is currently a very short flashcard set. The issue of image copyright is bothering me. I used WikiMedia Commons for the images in these flashcards, but it required a bit of brute-force searching to find images that were totally unencumbered by copyright. Most of ...
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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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