Monthly Archives: October 2006

dear mahathir, ape macam ni?

Dr. Mahathir can’t afford to shoot himself in the foot (metaphorically speaking, so don’t sue me), anymore. I think quite a number of people would have read, by now, the NST’s reply to Mahathir. Unsurprisingly, they hav ...Continue


monsterblog naysayers and ‘out-ing’ people

Dismissing someone’s opinion, argument or statements on the basis that they work for the ‘evil empire’ or NST, TNB or Monsterblog is wrong. It is a fallacious argument to say:

1. She works for TNB.
2. Therefore her arguments are suspect.

That’s faulty reasoning, and the fallacy is, in gener ...Continue


partisans

I think some of you watch CNN on a regular basis, and some of you that do will have come across the program, “Crossfire”. Crossfire is a debate program that has now been canceled mostly due to the appearance of Jon Stewart of the Daily Show on Crossfire.

Jon Stewart took the hosts to task and turned the tables on both hosts wh ...Continue


hilarious things software developers get up to…

For a good, semi-serious laugh, check out the #1 Bug in Ubuntu, over here. Avoid beverages while reading ;)

The problematic (sic):

Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubu ...Continue


podcasts are better than curry. maybe.

Do you listen to podcasts? I’ve been obsessed with podcasts for the past 2 weeks or so, ever since I’ve got iTunes to work on my machine, which of course makes an iPod worth having. I love listening to the BBC World Service, so finding a steady stream of people talking on the internet is like discovering a gold mine.

(I know, i ...Continue