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The KGB, CIA, Computer and Me – Cliff Stoll

This one is for all the geeks, if you’ve been into tech for a long time you’ve probably heard of Cliff Stoll and his book The Cuckoo’s Egg and his paper Stalking The Wiley Hacker. PBS made “Nova” dramatization of his book starring Cliff himself called “The KGB, CIA, Computer and Me”, and someone has […]

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Infuriating Flash Game! QWOP

Man this one was annoying, and tough. At the start I kept getting negative numbers…but patience prevails! Try it out..it’s called QWOP. https://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html I got there in the end, without any kind of jump tho.. If you wanna check out crazy, see this dude. Amazing! He has another video where he even manages a jump […]

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Canon PowerShot G10 vs Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 (LX-3)

I’ve been looking for a compact for a while, I was previously using the Fuji F31fd – pretty much the best compact camera ever made in terms of High ISO shooting and great pic quality straight from the camera (ISO1600 sample here). It didn’t have the best flash and it was SLOW (both in AF […]

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Twitter Advertising – The Next Big Thing?

So the big discussion online today is about the newly launched ChurpChurp – a Twitter advertising network. Twitter has been ‘the next big thing‘ for a while now, and almost everyone is already on the bandwagon. Thankfully it’s supporting the mass exodus without falling down or becoming lame, mostly because it’s a push platform you […]

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WordPress Back To Default Install State – wp_options Table Corrupted

If you read my blog every day or so you may have noticed a couple of times in the past week or so it just showed the default WordPress installation screen. Some people seem to think they’ve been hacked when they see this screen as it indicates the database is totally gone. The most common […]

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Nuffnang vs Advertlets on Google

No comments, just what I see. Advertlets Auto-complete search queries on Google. Nuffnang Auto-complete search queries on Google. Make your own judgments. Recently there was an interesting post about Advertlets from the advertisers perspective by Larry Lim, he’s edited out most of the details though: Advertising With Advertlets Was Just As Bad

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Why Twitter is SO Popular

You might have heard of Twitter, you might even be using it, you might even be an addict (like me). If you have no idea what Twitter is, it’s basically a ‘microblogging’ service which allows you to push out small bite sized updates (no more than 140 characters). It started out as an SMS based […]

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My Experience with E-Filing at LHDN/Hasil PJ

So it’s tax season as most of you well know, everyone is scrambling to get their Borang BE and get it filled in or trying out the new E-filing system (which works surprisingly well). Earlier today I headed to LHDN PJ (Just off the LDP opposite side of Giant near to MBPJ Stadium), conveniently it’s […]

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Published In The Malay Mail (Without Permisson)

Well today David Lian and I were published in the Malay Mail (without permission). Battling for the Internet mind The article is about PR and bloggers of course and they published both of our articles side-by-side (and made David look like a Simpsons character). They did infringe our copyright by taking these articles (and even […]

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Maybank Phishing Scam E-mails in Malaysia

Recently I’ve received quite a few Phishing scam e-mails pretending to be from Maybank, of course I’m not even a Maybank customer. For those that don’t know, Phishing is: In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details […]

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