links for 2007-06-01

• Software piracy | Free loaders | Economist.com
  malaysia didn't make it….
  (tags: interesting)
• What steakhouses reveal about the weakness of the U.S. economy. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine
  could be applied to prics of palm oil in M'sia and its relation to cooking oil? what do you think?
  (tags: economics)
• FOXNews.com - Junk Science: Hot Air Study Melts Global Warming Theory - Blog | Blogs | Popular Blogs | Video Blogs
  By overlaying the atmospheric carbon dioxide trend onto graphs of near-surface temperatures, surface temperatures and ocean temperatures, it is readily apparent that ever-changing global temperatures aren’t keeping pace with ever-increasing atmospheric
  (tags: science)
• I Believe In Evolution, Except For The Whole Triassic Period | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
  Of course evolution is real, just not during the "Triassic period."
  (tags: funny)
• Malay Swear Words
  need to work on my swearing vocabulary…
  (tags: interesting)
• 10 Beach Photography Tips
  (tags: photography)
• RIGZONE - For Dubai, The Oil Futures Are Now
  Today, the eyes of the oil world will be turning to a souk in the desert.

  At 6 p.m. Eastern time, a long-awaited effort gets under way in Dubai's opulent financial center to give the world a new crude-oil pricing benchmark. The recently organized Duba

  (tags: oil)
• Dr Vino’s wine blog » Blog Archive » Nine wines under $10
  (tags: wine)
• HOW TWO MONTHS' SALARY LASTS A LIFETIME IN REALLY EVIL SHIT.
  Diamonds became engagement stones around the end of the recession. Ernest Oppenheimer, who was in control of De Beers in the 1930s, was shutting down diamond mines to control supply and keep the price of diamonds high. He sent his son Harry to New York to
  (tags: diamonds)

links for 2007-05-31

• How to Be Charming - wikiHow
  Praise others instead of gossiping. If you are talking with someone or you are talking in a group of people, and up pops the subject of another person in a positive or negative way, be the one to mention something you like about that person. Hearsay is th
  (tags: lifehacks)
• And Still I Persist » The Art of 'Ware [version 2.0]
  Back in the early 1990s, I wrote and published The Art of ‘Ware (M&T Books, 1995), a reinterpretation of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, a 6th century BC treatise on conflict and warfare. My reinterpretation of Sun Tzu’s maxims applied to developing and m
  (tags: books)
• Scalable CSS Buttons Using PNG and Background Colors | David’s kitchen
  Dynamic CSS Buttons using PNG, transparency and background colors that degrades nicely and supports full scalability. With full scalability I mean it should resize in all directions according to the font size and content.
  (tags: css)
• Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering Explained: Anisotropic Filtering, for Sharper Textures
  Anisotropic filtering is a method of improving the way the insides of objects look—all the parts between the edges.
  (tags: gaming)
• Beginners Guide to Sports Betting | productdose.com
  No one should seek self-affirmation of any sort through gambling. You should only seek to win money. Everything else is incidental. The thrill of risk is a secondary reward to winning cash. That should be your greatest reward, the fact that you won money
  (tags: betting)
• The Traveler's Dilemma — [ GAME THEORY ]: Scientific American
  "He asks each of them to write down…any dollar integer between 2 and 100 without conferring together. If both write the same number…he will pay each of them that amount. But if they write different numbers, he will … pay both of them the lower numbe
  (tags: interesting gametheory)
• The Middle Show | Girls and Sound Effects | Black20
  girls can't do laser gun sound effects…lol
  (tags: funny)
• Data Grids with AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript | Smashing Magazine
  wow…gotta try this.
  (tags: webdesign)
• desire to inspire: Stairs and storage
  why didn't i think of that!
  (tags: home storage)
• Congress searches for phony villains in gas price hike - May. 30, 2007
  Gasoline prices hit an all time high of $3.227 a gallon just before the Memorial Day holiday, and once again, Congress has taken the easy way out. Instead of doing anything substantive about the United States' unquenchable thirst for gasoline, it has gone
  (tags: oil)

links for 2007-05-29

• Group Writing Project Results: 37 Sources Of Inspiration » Inspiration Bit
  (tags: inspiration)
• Millions of Addresses and Thousands of Sites, All Leading to One - New York Times
  (tags: domain)
• Swami Bharati Krishna Tirtha's Vedic mathematics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  (tags: math)
• Modern Students Devour Old Math
  (tags: math)
• The good old days. | Ads of the World
  (tags: interesting)
• justiNYC: Shoefiti Phenomenology
  (tags: interesting)
• Interesting Facts | People Facts, World Facts, Strange Facts, Animal Facts and History Facts
  WD-40 stands for Water Displacement, 40th attempt.
  (tags: interesting)
• Ageing Forum
  (tags: retirement)
• Forget Photoshop: 15 Online Graphics Generators
  (tags: web2.0)
• I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train by David Evans | The News is NowPublic.com
  (tags: globa_warming)
• blogs | Ads of the World
  (tags: interesting)

links for 2007-05-28

• How To Get Fired Like A Man - Forbes.com
  (tags: career)
• InterfaceLIFT: High-Resolution Widescreen Wallpaper (by ratings)
  (tags: wallpaper)
• You’re Fired! 20 signs that a pink-slip is coming. | Wise Bread
  (tags: career)
• that's how it happened
  (tags: food)
• Sample Resignation Letters
  (tags: career)
• tieknots
  (tags: clothing)
• SEOish » Blog Archive » Got 100 dollars? 7 Experts share budget website marketing tips
  (tags: seo)
• The Simple Dollar » I’m Twenty Years Old And Have No Debt - When Can I Retire And Live Off My Investments?
  (tags: retirement)
• Ethics of porn are in the eye of the beholder - Opinion - smh.com.au
  (tags: interesting)
• “One drop of oil,” said Georges Clemenceau, the Prime Minister of France in the second half of World War I, “is worth one drop of blood of our soldiers.”
  (tags: oil)
• Crude - the incredible journey of oil - Broadband edition - ABC Science
  (tags: oil)

State of the Malaysian Blogosphere

Guess it's time for me to write something here after like almost 2 months without posting! Well, all in the pursuit of money & adventure I guess…while missing out on the love…sighz….

Anyway, if you've checked and saw someone on your blog that has been reading for like 30min-1hr, it's probably me…lol. Anyway, it seems that I've missed quite alot this past 2 months, but let me summarise it in my version of the "State of the Malaysian Blogosphere" and see what else I've missed out:

1. Local blog advertising war! Woah…didn't expect this to happen and I was thinking about this idea like a year ago too…lol, you guys still accept investments? Anyway, looks like most guys & girls sided with the one with a funky name, but honestly the design & logo of the site still needs some improvement (you guys can perhaps check out this Malaysian guy that has a real amazing portfolio though), although the blog itself is pretty good.

The other one looks amazingly good though but probably suffered from too much bad publicity until not many wanna try it…I guess the only way to fix this is to offer a pretty good sum of money to M'sian bloggers for a post in PPP…lol

2. Bloggers are enemies-of-the-state!!! Now must register some more, I wonder how much more paperwork they wanna create so that they can upload the details into myKad? Or are they just sending business my way?

3. Blogger turned politician! From my alma mater somemore! Wishing him luck but it seems that it's gonna be a long and arduous path he chose. With all the talk about "Malaysians First" and looking at the current trend, it'll all boil down to race in the end. The political party he's now in is simply too "Cina" so to speak, you guys need more non-Chinese politicians!

4. SARA and gila!!! are getting more traffic!!! I'm happy of course, but it's kinda sad too. Guess it could be due to the bunch of agloco, ppp, get rich quick blogs you see every 2-5 posts on a certain website named after a street.

5. eh, anything I missed out?