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Just to inform you that today is the day Thailand changed its name from Siam in May 11, 1949. “Thai” means “freedom” in the Thai language, so it’s a land of freedom. Though it the country name has been renamed more than 50 years ago, there are people who still prefer to call it as Siam, including me :p
Read more about Thailand and the Thai language at wikipedia.
Some of my files on my other hosting company has suffered hardware failures and they lost my accounts, well a couple of my “one-off” website are totally gone, along with some of the files that i mirrored there. Luckily I’ve transfered most of my files/work and this blog to Interunix, back a couple of week a go.
It seems that I’m not the only one who has suffered from hard disk failure, hope that you will recover soon Liew.
By the way, you can get cheap domain name @ USD2.99 from unixdomains.com, grab it quick while stock last :p, I’ve bought a couple of domain names at that price too…
This may be already a stale news, but I’ll post it anyway. OpenDocument recently was approved as international standard (ISO/IEC 26300), hooray. For you information, OpenDocument is an open document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents such as text documents (including memos, reports, and books), spreadsheets, databases, charts, and presentations.
The OpenDocument format is intended to provide an open alternative to proprietary document formats including the popular but undocumented DOC, XLS, and PPT formats used by Microsoft Office, as well as Microsoft Office Open XML format.
In a nutshell, everybody is free to implement OpenDocument (ODF) support, and users will not be locked out by a single vendor as in case with proprietary office format like Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite.
Currently the most popular applications that support OpenDocument is < a href="http://openoffice.org">OpenOffice (supported on a number of operating systems), Abiword and KOffice.
Visit OpenOffice Wikipedia entry for more information about OpenDocument Format
Hello there, I’m just testing my skills on php, and suddenly I came out with an idea to create a simple website that allows you to view Malaysian TV Programme Listing at http://tv.mypapit.net. It’s kinda a simple and stupid website actually, but it allows you to subscribe the tv listing using any generic RSS reader for your convenience.
So don’t forget about the URL, it’s http://tv.mypapit.net. lol, I know, it’s a shameless promotion.
Ever wonder how to register a small business in Malaysia? This e-book might give you some idea on that, including how to fill in the required form (Borang P.N.A 1, etc) and the fees, what you supposed to do after you formed a company. The only catch is, it is written in Malay.
Download : Panduan Memulakan Perniagaan
p/s: I found the guide in some free hosting website a while ago (i think it’s angelfire) and it seems to be abandoned, so I recompile it in PDF format in hopes it will be useful to others. Note that I’m not the writer of the book :p
If you don’t already know, my blog suffered from the “technorati mood swings”, where it states that my blog hasn’t been updated for more than 50days. It seems that I’m not the only onewho has this problem.
Until now, I don’t know what happened and what to do as technorati won’t update my blogs, though i’ve ping them each time I write new post. But last night, I was hit by a pleasant suprise, my blog was updated by technorati 7 days ago, and all my post within that 50days period is included in technorati.
God knows what happened behind the technorati engine, but I wrote this as a reference to other bloggers. Do not give up if technorati stopped updating your blog, they might just have a minor hiccups. Your blogs will be updated by them eventually.