Archive for the ‘Money’ Category

Solar power in Malaysia – the residential area solar roof

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

[caption id="attachment_1200" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Malaysian house, blue sky (on a rainy day)"][/caption] 'Part two' has some better images that should make things a bit clearer! I keep suggesting this as a 'real' solar power alternative whenever someone says (as they invariably do) that solar power cannot produce enough energy to compete with ...

Royal Mail airsure track and trace: “Sorry. There is no data …”

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Living in Malaysia, I've come to accept a little bit of 'post tax'. I receive somewhere around 4 out of 5 items mailed unrecorded to me from overseas. I don't mind the occasional credit card going astray - it never seems to result in fraudulent transactions. Toys and clothes for ...

Laos shipping quotations for e-commerce (osCommerce, Zen Cart etc)

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, ...

Shipping quote world map update

Friday, January 28th, 2011

[caption id="attachment_1114" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Old world map - a lot of red"][/caption] Adding Laos (article soon) to the shipping origins in the spider.my data meant I had to update a few things at spider.my - among them the shipping world map. The old shades of red were looking a bit dull, ...

osCommerce shipping module for spider.my (Pos Malaysia rates) pre-release

Monday, January 17th, 2011

The shipping quote API and shipping modules for osCommerce and Zen Cart is now at Shipping-Quote.net If you've been caught out by Pos Malaysia's recent site updates and now can't quote for international deliveries from your shop, this module is functional at one Malaysian online shop. Pos Malaysia's update has come ...