Oh, oh, looks like Six Apart’s Vox.com is closing its door. Another free blogging service bites the dust. I have been using Vox.com for mobile blogging since 31/Aug/2008 or roughly for about two years. And what a coincidence the date I sign up was on Malaysia Merdeka Independence day! The end of the free blogging service seemed rather timely as around June this year, I was already planning to migrate to another mobile blogging platform, namely blog by using Google Blogger. Six Apart made the closing announcement just after the Merdeka day this year and informed that the Vox blogging service will end on 30th Sept 2010. (more…)
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Vox.com Closing its Free Blogging Service
Friday, September 3rd, 2010Baby Night Out
Sunday, July 18th, 2010It’s baby night out! My wife’s mother was celebrating her birthday at Overseas Restaurant so baby was tagging along in the baby carrier. It was an exciting time for baby, a chance to look at new things. Well mostly new lights. He likes lights and the restaurant was full of it.
At on to further distraction and stimulation are the other aunties and uncles who dote on him what more did he want? (more…)
Pos Malaysia Postal Rates July 2010
Monday, July 5th, 2010So 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…)
French Toast Recipe for breakfast
Saturday, June 12th, 2010I 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…)
Multiposting hits a snag
Friday, May 7th, 2010I’m trying to create as much exposure as I can by using multiposting services like Twitterfeed which in turns repost to other multipost web apps like HelloTxt and Ping.fm. Unfortunately something broke in Twitterfeed, it couldn’t recognize the API provided by Ping.fm. I could of course shift most of my other social websites to HelloTxt but there will still be some websites that HelloTxt don’t handle plus Ping.fm has some features which HelloTxt don’t have. (more…)
Social Websites: You are who you know
Saturday, March 13th, 2010When 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…)
Star Two Rage featured bloggers
Thursday, March 11th, 2010The Star Two Rage section is more for the youth, twenty-something who likes to blog. Some of their featured Malaysian bloggers including the super blogger like Kenny Sia and several others. Ok, intriguing. So where do I stand as far as all this bloggers go?
Blogging may be all the rage these days especially in the Malaysian scene. Granted when I pop into blogging a few years back, blogging was still in its infancy (a few years is like millennia, considering the fast pace of online app development!). Back then I started a website about travel, it was a niche topic, doing pretty darn well I should say. But I have more things to say than just happy travelling. So I got myself a blog and started to write about technological stuffs which I like (ok, apart from travel which I also liked, and there are many more things which I like too.) (more…)
Palm mobile to WordPress blog post using u*blog and Cellspin
Saturday, February 20th, 2010All this while I have been using Six Apart Vox for mobile blogging from my Palm Centro. The interface is good but I would very much prefer to blog directly to my WordPress blog from my Palm Centro.
The current method to post from Palm Centro to a WordPress blog would be by email. This method requires that you set up a secret email account where your WordPress blog will check the mail server for any post that you have done lately. It didn’t seem to work for me when I tried it. Don’t know what when wrong. However I wasn’t so keen on this method so I didn’t bother to figure out how to fix it.
However I thought perhaps some bright programmer might have come up with something useful and sure enough I found two ways where you could post from your Palm Centro or Treo mobile phone to a WordPress blog. (more…)
this is u*blog test post
Sunday, February 14th, 2010this is a u*blog test post. checking out alternate method of posting to my blog.
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BookCrossing
Friday, January 29th, 2010This is fun, BookCrossing. Who would have thought that leaving your books in out in the wild and let somebody else pick it up, read it, and hopefully they would leave a little note behind in your BookCrossing account. It started out way back in 2001 when Ron and his wife Kaori were admiring PhotoTag.org site where disposable cameras were let go in the wild and was tracked based on the serial number. So they came up with the idea of leaving books around either at specific BookCrossing designated areas or random points of place. (more…)
