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Leow surname history

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

I happen to stumble upon this article about the Leow (廖) surname which is my family surname. Don’t know much about it till I read this article. All I know so far was that my ancestor hailed from Hainan somewhere in the Southern China. Anyway, this article shed some interesting light about the history of the Leow surname.

Other Romanised forms of the Leow name include Liao, Liau, Liaw, Leeau, Liow, Leaw, Leou, Lau, Loh, Liu, Lieu, Liew and Lew.

The History of the Surname 廖 Leow as Recorded in 2 Documents (more…)

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Careful about Email Spoofing

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Received this message that supposedly came from Facebook. But turn out the URLs do not point to Facebook at all. If the link were to be clicked it would redirect you to a Pharmacy website selling fake medicine. This is considered spam. Fortunately it wasn’t a phising website. Losing your account would be tantamount to identity theft not to mention a loss of all your contacts that you have build up over time. (more…)

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Jhoos dating messenger scam site

Friday, July 9th, 2010

I have been getting Jhoos dating messenger invite from friends. All the while I just ignored it. But this time I got curious and decided to click the “Yes” button. But what I see looks awfully suspicious. Instead of a sign up page it asked you to key in your email address and password! The part where they ask for the password sets off an alarm in my head! Hey, would you hand in your ATM card and PIN number to people you don’t know?

Right! (more…)

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Pos Malaysia Postal Rates July 2010

Monday, July 5th, 2010

So Pos Malaysia has revised its postal rates by 100% from 1st July 2010 onwards. They claim their postal usage has been declining and of course they have not revised their rates for the past 18 years. They needed to adjust their rates so that they can revise their pay to the postal workers to match with the civil servants pay and of course to boost the profitability back to previous years. (more…)

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French Toast Recipe for breakfast

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

I haven’t really tried making French toast so looking around the internet I found some French Toast Recipe to get going. Making French toast isn’t so difficult; if I could whip some pancakes using the premix flour so how hard is cooking up a French toast breakfast?

The only problem was that I should have checked the recipe sooner, ’cause after waking up in the morning I found I was missing an ingredient. I think it was not too important if I missed out on the milk, just that the French toast would not come out as creamy and smooth like those whip up by the hotels for their continental breakfast fare. (more…)

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Social Websites: You are who you know

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

When using social websites like Facebook, Twitter, etc, usually we try not to divulge too much information. After all there are unscrupulous shenanigans out to phish information that you publicly display. Identity theft is pretty dangerous for you. You may try to protect yourself by limiting the number of information available, but now researchers have come out a way to infer about information that you have left out by using an algorithm to search your friends profile and infer information that you have left out.

So you thought that by leaving information out would afford you some privacy and perhaps only let people know about 20% about you, but with this technique they can infer information up to 80% accuracy about your other attributes. (more…)

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Online Bookmarks

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

I’m using a lot of the online bookmark apps provided by the search engines like Google and Yahoo. I also a Delicious account for social bookmarking as well as trying out Google Chrome and Opera synchronized bookmarks. I’m all for using online bookmarks as it has one great advantage over using the browser’s bookmarking ability in that it is rather permanent in comparison and especially useful if


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palm to wordpress posting

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

this u*blog may be dated and may not be the best way to blog from a palm mobile device to wordpress posting. the alternative is to use cellspin which is of course more advance than u*blog. however there is trade off, yes their app is free of charge but there is cost to your blog [...]


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another u*blog test post

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

this is another u*blog test post from my palm centro to my wordpress website personal blogs about website. u*blog is rather dated (24.4.2005) n there is no new updates since then. it is rather unstable n I couldn’t get the attachment to work. I don’t what settings I messed it with and it kept crashing [...]


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trying out crossposting

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

It is interesting to set up crossposting. However the ability to cross post will depends on the function of the app. And so far I get mixed results. Sometimes it post sometimes it doesn't. Kinda frustrating. I was also trying to avoid double triple post but in the end I'm giving up because the apps behaves incomprehensibly. Oh well…

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