Archive for the ‘Life’ Category

Is the new DAP rocket the wrong colour?

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_641" align="alignright" width="240"] Old DAP rocket with Inkscape guidelines - everything is wonky![/caption] I was thinking of writing an article about the Jalur Gemilang - the Malaysian national flag - and the importance of very carefully specifying your 'brand', and remembered I'd written about Malayisia's Democratic Action Party (DAP) logo ...

The Iron Giant – the best unknown animated movie

Monday, November 9th, 2009

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Wossis? The Iron Giant!"][/caption] When I first saw The Iron Giant, I went looking for it because I saw it in a list of animated movies on Wikipedia. I'd never heard of it but it seemed to have rave reviews. I still can't believe how good it ...

Who would Jesus bomb? Lucky find on YouTube

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Saw this on YouTube, liked it a lot. No more to say on the subject right now, than: watch it, experience an emotion, keep it to yourself. OK, you can tell me, as long as you don't want an argument. I'm posting this purely for 'liked it'. A lot. To save ...

Minimum Xen VPS for LAMP (osCommerce/WordPress) at XenSmart

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

[caption id="attachment_525" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="XenSmart Unmanaged Xen VPS in the UK"][/caption] First a confession - I tried to 'go stingy' and put Lolyco.com on a XS-128 (128MB RAM) VPS at XenSmart, and it really didn't work. It was initially OK, but after a few visitors, it had filled up both the ...

Old articles from isono.my

Monday, August 10th, 2009

I had this great idea to write about politics and open source software, and rented isono.my for a year as a domain to do it on. I decided after a few months that I wouldn't continue with it, for ... the same reason I'm not going to finish this sentence. ...