Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

The ‘One’ theme again: 1Malaysia, Unifi, Monopoly

Friday, March 26th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_868" align="alignright" width="136" caption="TM's high-speed internet service"][/caption] 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 ...

Pos Malaysia shipping rates download

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_796" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Download Pos Malaysia shipping rates at spider.my"][/caption] 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 ...

Pos Malaysia shipping quotes for e-commerce

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

[caption id="attachment_773" align="alignright" width="174" caption="Pos Malaysia"][/caption] 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 ...

Added ‘Animals’ flashcards to wossis.com

Monday, February 1st, 2010

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Animals flashcards"][/caption] '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 ...

2010 January 15th Solar Eclipse (not) seen in Malaysia

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_722" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Solar Eclipse January 2010, as seen in Henan, China"][/caption] 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 ...