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Posts made on July, 2009

IE6Update.com – Help Kill Internet Explorer 6

For Windows users (pre-Vista), IE6 (Microsoft Internet Explorer) is nothing but an imbecile. A browser that seems to crash on any website that demands a little bit more than normal surfing, GMail doesn’t even work fully in IE6, facebook makes it hang, and virus loves to attach itself to it. For web developers, IE6 is [...]

5 Amazingly Addictive Online Comics (that can possibly get you fired)

Let’s be honest. Most of us will wander from websites to websites, blog to blog and one facebook application to another when we’re completely bored at the office, unless, of course, you happen to work in the call center or telemarketer line, which leaves you almost no time to even flinch. During some of my [...]

Bapak Borek, Anak Rintik (Like Father, Like Son)

This photo was taken at Zoo Negara (The National Zoo) during our visit on 18th July 2009. This kid comes with his parents. The father was showing a brilliant example of poking the tortoise with his feet repeatedly, and when the tortoise refused to move an inch, the father spilled water on the tortoise’s head. [...]

30 Days on a Mac: The Pros, Cons, Ups and Downs

As some of you might have known, I have migrated to the OSX platform about a month back upon my purchase of a 13″ Aluminum MacBook. In a way, this notebook is pretty similar to the one I’ve been using previously, the HP nc6510b while I was employed in my previous company. The decision of [...]

Bored? Let’s Play Tower Defense!

I’ve been bored senseless for the past three weeks due to indefinitely waiting for things to happen. It’s not that I don’t want to do anything about it, but I have no control over any aspect of it. So me and my housemates have stumbled across many tower defense games that will guarantee to keep [...]

10 Awesome Resources for iPhone/iPod Touch Wallpapers

For you geeks and Apple-mongrels out there that is carrying one of these devices, this is a post dedicated to you. 25 Awesome resources to get your iPhone/iTouch wallpapers if you are too lazy to make one yourself (or heck, even too lazy to “scale and crop”). 01 – iPhone Wallpapers Flickr Pool Contains more [...]

World's Best Resignation Letter

This post is dedicated to my ex-colleagues in Emerio and Hewlett-Packard. The world’s best IT Admin Resignation Letter!

I Am Now A Successful Opera Convert

I have been very excited ever since I got my MacBook, and wanted to taste the glimpse of the “it just works” phenomenon that many Mac evangelists have been preaching to me. Well sure, everything just works, but there’s a few annoyances, which I will talk about some other day. Let’s get down to the [...]

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