Archive for the ‘Life’ Category
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
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Emily (my 3 year-old daughter) has a few sets of Chinese character flash cards from her kindergarten. We were using them one night recently when I thought they'd make a good test page for Spinneret. I've been wondering about javascript (never used it before) and ...
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
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I was reading Lim Kit Siang's blog recently and saw the article about the Teoh Beng Hock 'black blog'. LKS is calling it a 'black blog' because it makes some serious allegations about wrong-doing in Selangor. The blog author has posted some ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
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Farrah Fawcett also died today. I struggle with words around bereavement, not having any off-the-shelf ideas about what happens when people die. To me, a person - their personality - is something made up of all my experiences and memories of the person. When they ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
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I was manually adding some reports of Michael Jackson's death to the crawl queue at spider.my this morning, when I noticed that one of the machines doing indexing had choked on a page. It wasn't long ago that I added some code ...
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
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Well, pardon me for keyword whoring, but I just had to write something about the article in The Malaysian Insider: No porn please, we are civil servants about the Prime Minister's reply to a written question from Teresa Kok. It's no good, while I'm ...
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