I don’t know about you but recently I have been receiving spam email of the lowest kind. Spam email offering to sell you Malaysian email addresses, what they term as eMarketing services:
500,000 Internet users @ RM388
1,000,000 Internet users @ RM688
3,000,000 Internet users @ RM1376
You know it’s getting really bad when the spam you get tries [...]
Archive for August, 2005
How low can you go?
Posted in Thoughts on August 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Defeated by Durian
Posted in Entertainment on August 31, 2005 | 4 Comments »
I was watching a Discovery Travel and Living programme yesterday about Bizarre foods in Asia. It was really gross and I take off my hat to the game host who ate all sorts of wierd stuff. In Japan, there was raw frog presented on a platter with the frog’s head as decoration and he actually [...]
Dog tales
Posted in Animals on August 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
These 2 interesting dog tales caught my eye recently. The first was about a lost dog who caught the first train home. When Archie the black labrador lost his owner on a lonely Scottish station, he jumped aboard the first train home. Not only did the dog catch the right train, he got off at [...]
Blogger templates
Posted in Blog on August 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I was just commenting to Yan recently on the limited choice of Blogger templates offered on the Blogger site itself. YP then suggested we write our own template or get one from Blogskins and modify it for use. Thanks for the suggestions YP but I know zilch about HTML and I found the Blogskins website [...]
Are you a Polically Correct Midlifer?
Posted in News & Oddities on August 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Someone posted on DOBBs today about how a US doctor got into trouble for calling a patient obese. She filed a complaint with the state saying he was hurtful, not helpful when all he did was to try and encourage her to lose weight for health reasons and despite the fact that he wrote a [...]
Unusual jobs
Posted in News & Oddities on August 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
BBC News ran a series of articles last week on unusual jobs. They are all pretty interesting in their own way – also check out the reader responses as they talked about their own unusual jobs.
Human cannonball Diego Zeman
High pressure job that requires a head for heights and utmost concentration as a slip in timing [...]
Blog update
Posted in Blog on August 28, 2005 | 4 Comments »
Recently I have been helping with the Malaysian Medical Students website which is powered by WordPress. I had fun choosing a WordPress Theme as there are lots of great looking ones out there. I’ve been helping to add links to foreign Med schools which are recognised by our Malaysian Medical Council – getting my eyes [...]
Kenya elephant evacuation crumbles under jumbo load
Posted in Animals on August 26, 2005 | 2 Comments »
It’s elephants making the news on CNN today.
Problem A: too many elephants in National Park A causing them to move into populated area, destroying crops and injuring people.
Problem B: too few elephants in National Park B due to poaching
Solution: Just relocate 400 elephants from Park A to Park B
Simple you say? What do you need? [...]
MyKad and the NegaraKu
Posted in Local News on August 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Jom Tukar dan Menang (Let’s Change and Win) – Yes the JPN has had to resort to hold lucky draws for the next 3 months to encourage two million Malaysians who have yet to renew their identity cards to do so. There will be three draws. The first is scheduled at the end of September, [...]
What’s in a Name?
Posted in Web Finds on August 24, 2005 | 1 Comment »
A few of my blog readers mentioned how much they liked the Squirrel Name Generator so I decided to google for and test out other interesting Name Generators. Found quite a few out there!
The Hobbit Name Generator
The Elvish Name Generator
The Vampire Name Generator
The Nerd Name Generator
The Pirate Name Generator
The Cutesey Pet Name Generator – for [...]
