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Can Everyone Access Their Online Banking Easily? 2008-04-06 08:45:51 After coming accross a story at the BBC website my thoughts on the topic of web accessibility of online banking were rekindled. Since my last checks, online banking facilities don’t seem to have improved one bit and it may be a good time for another review. As a physically fully able bodied person (mentally who knows!) I have difficulty using Malaysian online banking systems. They are just so poorly designed that you need [...] Read more:Access
, Easily
, Online Banking
Allow Chelsea To Play Football In Malaysia 2008-03-31 11:29:36 Chelsea officials said they might abandon the Malaysia
n leg of a preseason tour if coach Avram Grant and midfielder Tal Ben Haim, both Israelis, are not allowed into the country. Malaysia, which is predominantly Muslim, has no diplomatic ties with Israel. Read more:Allow
, Chelsea
, Football
Common House Gecko - Hemidactylus Frenatus Photos 2008-03-20 21:23:12 Photos of a kind of Gecko
(Cicak) that I caught in my kitchen… photos of another one are over on this page. The photos below are of an adult House
Gecko and if you look closely you will notice the red dots on its feet are some kind of blood sucking tick or mite. [...] Read more:Common
Malaysian House Gecko / Cosymbotus platyurus / Cicak Photos 2008-03-19 08:12:33 After noticing that there are a few different kinds of Gecko
s that live in my house I have decided to catch and photograph the different types because not many people know that there are different types of Geckos here in Malaysia and most people just refer to them as “Cicak” regardless. Photos of the [...] Read more:House
, Malaysian
Aquarium Fish Videos 2008-04-11 03:48:54 Found some old videos today. Boring warning… they are boring! Nothing you can’t see down at your local fish shop.
Red Tail Catfish Video Read more:Aquarium
Ubuntu Linux: Write To Windows NTFS Format Drive 2008-04-12 05:09:40 In order to get Windows
NTFS filesystems to be writable in Ubuntu
you will need to download and install some extra tools. The following is the process for Ubuntu Dapper Drake but *could be different for other versions of Ubuntu. First enable some extra repositories in /etc/apt/sources.list Read more:Linux
, Ubuntu Linux
, Write
Pseudoplatystoma Tigrinum / Tiger Shovelnose Catfish Photos 2008-04-13 08:04:01 I bought two Tiger Shovelnose Catfish the other day from Xian Leng. Unfortunatly they have “ich” or white spot parasites and probably will not survive! Otherwise - great fish! Here are some pics…
Photo Of A Young Tilapia Cichlid 2008-04-15 01:42:46 For a fish most often seen on the dining table, Tilapia
actually look quite good in an aquarium! It the daytime they have irridescent spots of bluish color on the body and at night this one is a pearly silver color. Read more:Photo
Installing InfoGlue On Ubuntu Linux 2008-04-17 14:32:01 InfoGlue is a content management system written in Java for the Java platform. Although most of the documentation is written towards Windows users, because of its Java base it should be most at home on a truely open system such as Linux
. How can you install and setup InfoGlue on Ubuntu
Linux (or [...] Read more:Ubuntu Linux
Developing A Thai Text Sanitizer For Web Development 2008-04-26 15:22:26 This blog post details the nature of problems when working with Thai text.
Anyone that has ever worked with the Thai language in web development surely encountered problems entering Thai text into webpages - HTML, XHTML and even XML. The main problem is that the Thai language does often not use spaces between characters / [...] Read more:Development
, Web Development
Malaysian Petrol Prices Go Up 2008-06-05 02:25:59 Yesterday on the way home driving through KL I was stuck in the traffic jams with thousands of cars and people and was shocked to see the jams were caused by long (sometimes a few kilometers) ques for petrol stations.
My first thought that it must be panik buying - some fools must be sending SMS [...] Read more:Malaysian
, Petrol
, Prices
Microsoft Windows For Geordies 2008-06-05 23:21:04 Nothing quite like poking fun at fellow compatriots!
I don’t know who is responsible for creating this spoof but it is a “canny” joke. Note - you will need to know what a “Gerodie” is and you probably will need to have tried having a conversation with one before in order to fully undrestand both the [...] Read more:Microsoft
, Microsoft Windows
, Windows
Bin Metadata / Meta Tags And Kill SEO 2008-06-10 01:54:23 Should metadata including meta tags be flushed down the toilet?
I’ve been doing a bit of research on a few related topics including search technology and meta data and thought I’d share some of my ideas and findings although there is not much room for further speculation on the web on these topics as they have [...] Read more:Meta Tags
, SEO
Telekom Malaysia Moves Into Web Browser Hijacking Business 2008-06-16 02:18:38 Telekom Malayisa (TM) has moved into the web browser hijacking business with its “NetMyne” program. NetMyne () appears to work by hijacking any call to an unknown web address or malformed web address (ie: missing the .com / .net TLD extension etc).
Telekom Malaysia
’s “NetMyne” acts in a similar way to many virus / spyware malware [...] Read more:Business
, Telekom
7 To 10 Metre Long Reticulated Python! 2008-06-29 21:39:51 At about 1.30am this morning Malaysian time I was heading home. Something very rare and exciting was crossing the road just a few hundred metres from where I live - a huge Reticulated Python
! At first I though it was a tree fallen on the road (it was that big) but then [...]
Back To The E-Learning Drawing Board 2008-06-29 10:46:58 The sites feature multiple E-Learning
courses and are available with translations in 5 different languages - English, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai and Chinese (Simplified).
I’m back on the E-Learning case fixing and redeveloping E-Learning websites - so heres some in production screen shots…
More information and free demo courses are available at OpenEnglish2u.com and ESL.m Read more:Board
Malaysian Car Prices Compared 2008-06-27 06:52:47 2002 Toyota MRS
For A second hand Toyota MRS imported directly from Japan with the exact same specifications, condition milage and even colour the price difference is huge. You have to consider that Malaysia is much closer to Japan and than the UK is so the shipping charges will be far less.
Malaysia Price: RM [...] Read more:Malaysian
, Prices
Customize Drupal Menus - Remove The Most Annoying Code 2008-07-22 11:42:14 Want to customize the menu in Drupal
? Wondering what are all those classes in the menu for - when you are not even using a core theme? The most annoying code in the whole CMS is in Drupals menu system and ouputs something like this:
<ul class=“menu”>
<li class=“collapsed”>
<a href=“/index.php?q=node/add”>Create content</a>
Read more:Annoying
, Menus
CSI Malaysia - Foreign Investment Pulling Out 2008-07-22 07:23:37 A brilliant story by William Pesek can be read over at Bloomberg. This post is on the dull side, meaning you have to be into economics / politics otherwise risk being bored to death…
William makes some very well written comments including:
“Malaysia
should start by fixing a key weakness: a four- decade-old affirmative-action program favoring the [...] Read more:Foreign
, Foreign Investment
I’m Now On Planet Ubuntu Malaysia! 2008-07-21 21:07:30 Thanks to the guys at the UbuntuMalaysia
group, my blog is now syndicated on the new “Planet Ubuntu Malaysia”. As a way of celebrating this I have decided to share with the community some links to Ubuntu wallpapers. These are not normal Ubuntu themed wallpapers but the kind you can only find [...]
14 Mercedes E200 Kompressors For Malaysian Government Officials 2008-07-21 20:15:39 Hot news lately here in Malaysia about the purchasing of 14 Mercedes
E200 Kompressors by the state government in Terengganu.
According to The Star: The state government has defended the purchase of 14 Mercedes E200 Kompressor cars at RM3.43mil for the use of its state executive councillors and senior officials.
“Please understand that the Proton Perdanas [...] Read more:Government
, Malaysian
Preprocess / Customize Nuffnang Adverts For Your Blog 2008-07-20 12:05:10 Nuffnang just like many other web advertising companies uses a few layers of JavaScript to send out advertisements to the web browser. Also just like these other companies, one can “preprocess” the JavaScript before it is added to your page.
By modifying the JavaScript before it gets displayed in your site / blog you can customize [...] Read more:Adverts