Category Archives: Blog

Blog categorisation strategies

Darren Rowse recently asked ‘How Many Categories Does Your Blog Have?‘ It’s a question most bloggers and even myself struggle with on a regular basis. I’ve recently made some comprehensive changes to the way I categorise entries on my blog and I thought I would just share my categorisation/organisation strategy.
The guinea pig for my blog [...]

Gmail Theater: Why use Gmail?

Now that Gmail is out of beta, the Gmail team has released a few promotional videos on YouTube to promote Google’s mail service.
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Gmail Theater: Why use Gmail?
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Malaysia awards WiMAX licenses

Yesterday the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) announced the 4 winners of licenses to operate the 2.3GHz WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) spectrum in Malaysia (PDF link to news release).
The 4 winners were:

Bizsurf (M) Sdn Bhd (a unit of YTL-e Solutions Bhd)
Packet One Networks (M) Sdn Bhd (subsidiary of Green Packet and formerly [...]

Jackass of the week: Dato’ Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor

I’m taking a page out of Daring Fireball here and I’m going to name Dato’ Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor as the jackass of the week. In fact, I believe his following comments qualify him for jackass of the month - no one’s going to top this easily.
National Chinese daily Sin Chew Daily reported Dato’ as [...]

Goodbye Starbuck

Starbuck, one of Battlestar Galactica’s most-loved characters, died in ‘Maelstrom’ of Season 3 (S03E17) The episode title was aptly chosen and describes Starbuck’s turbulent life till its conclusion in a fireball over some unknown planet. I’m going to miss this crazy girl..
Further reading: Kara Thrace on Wikipedia and the Battlestar Wiki.

The Pursuit of Happyness

The Pursuit of HappynessLast night, my girlfriend and I watched “The Pursuit of Happyness” (IMDB link), a movie starring Will Smith and his 5-year old son Jaden Smith. The movie is about a salesman, Chris Gardner played by Will Smith, struggling to make ends meet. The situation gets so bad that he gets arrested for not paying parking tickets, his wife leaves him, he and his son get evicted - not once, but twice. With no degree and experience, he then embarks on a dramatic career change and eventually overcomes his circumstances to become a stockbroker.

WP2.1 advanced editor

WordPress 2.1 adds an extra feature for its much improved visual editor. Just press Shift+Alt+V to show or hide it while in the editor.

Heard about this from Episode 19 of the WordPress Podcast (the easter egg they mentioned).

Daylight-killing time

A group of F-22 Raptors were almost knocked out of the sky due to a computer glitch caused by the new daylight-savings time schedule which takes effect this year.
When the group of Raptors crossed over the IDL, multiple computer systems crashed on the planes. Everything from fuel subsystems, to navigation and partial communications were completely [...]

Google Singapore opening soon

Google Inc. plans to open a research and development center in Singapore, its first in Southeast Asia, reports The Straits Times. This will make Singapore its fourth research centre in Asia on its continuing quest for world domination. Google has eight R&D centres worldwide presently (Google locations).
Wonder if there will be a job for me. [...]

AsiaEP scores not with a great product but with great PR

The Star’s article, Googling for growth, looks like one of those articles where the PR team exchange high fives and back slaps because they’ve spun what seems to be a great story, and succeeds in pushing up the company’s stock price.
The story is about Malaysian e-marketplace provider AsiaEP Bhd, who is launching their it@h B2B [...]

Finally I’m happy

Finally, I’m happy with the way the blog looks and works. I don’t know what caught a hold of me, but I dropped everything else to re-do this blog and its design.
Probably the thing that got me really excited was the Simpla theme by Phu Ly. Really simple and elegant, clean code, and I really [...]

Version 2

Welcome to Version 2 of blogjunkie.net. Design changes to come (hopefully soon).
In the meantime check out myMacBUZZ.