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Last night was our National Day, and as usual, they shot fireworks after the 12:00am countdown. And, as usual, the fireworks shot are really near to my house, and this time I had a camera on, so enjoy!
Selamat Menyambut Ulang Tahun Kemerdekaan ke-48!
Phew, I’m very busy for the last two days, and that includes updating my Google-talk contact list.
Google-talk is yet another Instant Messenger client. Much like MSN, Yahoo or AOL/ICQ instant messenger, a clear rival to Google. So Google apparently doesn’t want to be left out in the IM business and launched Google-talk (still BETA).
Google-talk official client is small and neat, without much eyecandy (including smilies), but hey, it does the work. Another addon feature is the ability to use voice-chat with your IM buddy which now almost becoming a de-facto standard in IM clients. Adding contact list to your IM client is as easy as putting their gmail id and wait for their response (much like yahoo’s and MSN).
But the interesting part is Google-talk uses Jabber/XMPP protocol instead of closed-protocol like other popular IM-providers. Unlike other IM service providers, Google actually is open about people using 3rdparty clients to connect to their servers.
The good news behind all of this is people now can connect to their google-talk accounts without worrying much about the availability of the IM clients in their respective platforms ;)
I wondered what the cause of the mysterious “tempoarily out of resourse” message keeps appearing in my browser. I’ve suspected it is somekind of cache server or something, well
I dont know about TMNET, but they sure blame the fault of the slow connection on the landslide at the Lantau cable landing station in Hong Kong. This causes some delay when assessing websites hosted outside of Malaysia.
Well, there’s still a lot of room for improvement, hope that TMNET will better their service soon.
The National Day is around the corner! And I can see advertisement around for the National Day although based from my observation, it certainly less exciting than the previous year, but it’s National Day nevertheless.
Which brings me to a quest to find patriotic and National Day related-songs. Well after spending almost an hour searching for those songs on governments servers (*.gov.my), I finally came up to a conclusion, the Malaysian Government did not host any of the songs!!!! Or at least they make it hard for an average user to find it, and i do mean very hard…
Well I do found those songs scattered around the Net along with a good description about it, but none of them are from an Official government site.
Maybe some people will think “hey, it’s not a big deal, everybody knows the National Song”, or “Why are you complaining about this? Government have done so much… (insert typical politician-like speech here)”.
To me it’s just plain weird, just weird, that Malaysian government have a lot of *.gov.my site, but none of them seems to offer National Song/Patriotic to download. So what’s the use of all those ICT infrastructures are for?
Which brings me to another question, how would people know the official Negaraku song sounds like right now? I maybe not sensitive about it’s tempo, etc.The song have been officially altered before, but I’m still listening to different version of the National Song through the various radio stations, tv station, etc. How can I be sure which is the “Standard”.
Is there a standard copy of the song? How can I obtain it, economically and practically speaking? How can you be sure that the National Song distributed by non-governmental site have not been altered (tempo, rhythm, etc) ?
One more point, Malaysia is a federation consisting of 14 states and each state have their own unique state-song. Aren’t you curious about this state songs? How does it sound like?
Well here’s the collection of Patriotic/National Songs I’ve collected through the internet. But be advised, none of it came from Official Government website :
I’ve stumbled upon my long-time irc contact today, whose also a StudioTraffic user. Suprisingly, he’s complaining in his blog about StudioTraffic poor quality of service and low-response time lately.
He also states in his blog that, if this trend continues, StudioTraffic might just be another Ponzie, and announce that he’s going to withdraw from the scheme, quite unbelievable!! I’m talking about a guy who advocates ST for so long and have almost a hundred of referral membership under him!!! Well, something really Bad ™ must have happened…
What about you? Do you have any positive opinion about StudioTraffic lately?
p/s: StudioTraffic is a surf-for-money program which requires you to leave your browser windows open while surfing the internet. You commision will be paid according to your money invested in the program.
References :
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Want to redirect your website to another place but can’t create .htaccess file?
Well this might be a solution to you, if your webhost supports server site php scripting.
The codes below will tell web-client (including search bot) that your website have been Moved Permanently to a new location and redirects them to a new location
The PHP version :
header ('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header ('Location: http://newdomain.com/');
The ASP version :
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location",\ "http://www.newdomain.com/"
What’s wrong with META Refesh tag? Well, firstly, it isn’t supported by all web-client (including bots). Secondly, the search engine will ignore the META Refresh tag and stops indexing your webpage.
By sending server response code 301 Moved Permanently, will inform that your website have been moved to another location and search bots will note that and index the new location instead. :)
p/s: This tip is useful in an event you can’t create a .htaccess file in your webhost.