Archive for the ‘Philosophy’ Category

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 ...

District 9 is a better movie than Avatar

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_699" align="alignright" width="240" caption="District 9"][/caption] I might never have watched District 9, but Jess came back from her sister's house with a sack full of DVDs recently. Among the DVDs was District 9. I recognised the "No Humans" warning sign from the limited marketing I'd seen. I watched the movie on ...

Unrequited love and Malaysia

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

The Nut Graph asks this morning "Stay or leave Malaysia?". I think they published an article on the theme of Unrequited Love not so long ago, but I imagine it's a recurring theme for many Malaysians, or anybody who has ever lived here for long enough to develop an 'attachment' ...

Removing the “powered by WordPress” attribution text

Friday, December 11th, 2009

I saw a request for help with English grammar from a member of a forum I often visit, so had a quick peep at his website. It looked great, nice copyright message and all. He seemed to be suggesting that it was all his own work, so I had a ...

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 ...