Everybody should question
Nobody should question When I first came to Malaysia in 2005, I was eager to find out more about the country I was going to live in, the country my wife was born in and soon our children were to be...
View ArticleWhere is Pakatan Rakyat HQ?
Since the Perak government’s toys were taken away recently, there have been doubts expressed over the internal organisation of Pakatan Rakyat (PR “People’s Alliance”). It’s only natural to wonder what...
View ArticleWhere in the world was Altantuya?
That’s the problem with announcing, ahead of articles, what you’re going to write about. You end up writing about anything but. I was reading Susan Loone’s blog recently, and followed some links to an...
View ArticleOld articles from isono.my
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...
View ArticleWho would Jesus bomb? Lucky find on YouTube
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...
View ArticleThe Ministry of Tourism Poll: Penang Botanical Garden Arches
There’s plenty of ‘information’ available in Malaysia, and just a few people publicly questioning its quality. The Ministry of Tourism is conducting a poll on its website to see whether people want to...
View ArticleGoogle, Bing, other search engines OpenSearch link missing?
When did that happen? In a demo that reminded me of days working in large software houses, I showed my brother-in-law how he could add Google to his IE9 search engine list by just going to Google’s...
View ArticleMuslims in niqab / burqa smile for the camera no eyes visible
Someone forwarded me a photo of Muslims in burqa / niqab today by email with a comment about “incongruity”. Here it is: I wasn’t immediately convinced it couldn’t have been improved for comic effect...
View ArticleChina’s Lunar Lander – did it Crash?
I first saw the video of the Chang’e 3 lunar landing at LiveLeak and have to say I thought it was beautiful: the smooth motion and clear images reminded me of looking out of the window of an aeroplane...
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