Author Archives: blogjunkie

Alison Carroll is the new Lara Croft

Former gymnast Alison Carroll, 23 is announced as the new Face of Lara Croft at Pineapple Studios on August 11, 2008 in London, England. The new Tomb Raider game,’Underworld’ comes out on November 21, 2008.
Update: more pics

Gallery on AOL
Gallery on Ripten

del.icio.us bookmarks for August 16th

Bookmarked at delicious.com/davidwang:

Etiquette in the Age of Social Media | chrisbrogan.com
No time of day in node date | 11 heavens
Three tips for comment theming in Drupal - Blog - Web design Nottingham, UK - Content Management, eCommerce, Drupal development
How To: A Beginner's Guide to Building Web Widgets - MarketingVOX
My Best Advice About Social Media | [...]

Olympic video screen FAIL

Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird’s Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting

Which geek am I?

Suffian pointed me to the 56 Geeks project on Flickr. The closest I come to is the Apple Geek, although I would consider myself a bigger Internet Geek

del.icio.us bookmarks for August 11th

Bookmarked at del.icio.us/davidwang:

Multisite Manager with Wordpress MU 
WPMU DEV - WordPress MU plugins and themes 

P1050396

P1050396, originally uploaded by blogjunkie

Cathay Pacific’s new 777-300s rock. They even have power plug points in their Economy class.

Barcamp Malaysia report

Picture by Azman Saini
Last weekend I attended Barcamp Malaysia, the inaugural Barcamp event in this part of the world. Unfortunately I missed the whole Day 1 because I actually managed to fall sick on the day.
However I did enjoy the sessions on Day 2 and met quite a few interesting people. It was really fun [...]

Cuil

New search engine Cuil is going head to head with the big G. Unfortunately the results aren’t too great at the moment. Above is a screenshot of some of the results for the search term ‘blogjunkie’. I’m sticking to Google for the time being..

Wordpress for iPhone

Testing out the new WordPress for iPhone app. Pretty cool but typing links is a bitch.

Back to work

A year ago I ditched my old job and began life as an entrepreneur. But this past month I’ve gone back to work for ‘the man’. In this case the man is AGENDA, a forward-looking interactive, digital agency. They’re forward-looking because they realise that the web is changing and that the social web is the [...]

Advertlets, you are fired

Advertlets keeps on getting bad press. 

Green Pope BXVI

Pope Benedict XVI said Thursday that mankind’s “insatiable consumption” has scarred the Earth and squandered its resources, telling followers that taking care of the planet is vital to humanity.
Amen
Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our Earth: erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world’s mineral and [...]

iPhone 3G on Maxis..?

hmm..? link

BarCamp Malaysia

I forgot to mention, I’m attending BarCamp Malaysia this 26 July

blogjunkie <3 flickr

blogjunkie <3 flickr, originally uploaded by blogjunkie

i heart <3 my flickr account

Firefox 3 Guinness World Record

I helped set a world record :o)

Searchable Flash

Adobe is making Flash searchable.. but only to Google and Yahoo. Link

Download Day

I’m downloading Firefox 3 and helping set a Guinness World Record this 17 June - Download Day.

RM66.30 for a full tank

RM66.30 for a full tank, originally uploaded by blogjunkie

Sigh… petrol prices went up again. Suddenly I’m really glad I drive a Savvy, otherwise a full tank of petrol would cost much more.

Social Media in Plain English

Social Media in Plain English. Another great video by Lee LeFever