Tim on March 31st, 2008

Teh Internets

60% of all Photoshop users are pirates (sample size: 500).
Adobe launches Photoshop Express, a stripped down version of its flagship product. Focus is on community and “family” functions.
Torrentspy.com, which was once the most visited BitTorrent site, shuts down in the face of MPAA suits.
Firefox 3 will debut in June 2008, fixing its memory-hogging.
[I still [...]

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Tim on March 29th, 2008

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones is one of the best movie franchises ever! It’s a rare blend of action and humour and doesn’t miss any opportunity to poke fun at itself. It has one of the best, most recognizable theme songs of all time. And it stars Harrison Ford!
My introduction [...]

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Tim on March 25th, 2008

Any other politician would have taken the easy way out. Denounce all ties, slam the media, find some other way to put the opponent down. Maybe redefine the meaning of the word is.
That was what I thought Obama would do when a series of video snippets surfaced on Youtube of his pastor of 20 [...]

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Tim on March 22nd, 2008

How many passes does the team in white make?

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Tim on March 21st, 2008

I finally got around to buying a domain name :). I suppose I had to finally put a Nuffnang ad on my own blog lah, as well as link up all my workmates. The exporting of posts went much smoother than the last migration I did from my old blogspot blog (now a secret test [...]

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Tim on March 18th, 2008

I was going to go on a tirade about how a jellyfish has more backbone than all our papers put together, but I’m tired so this will have to do :/.
From NST:

IPOH: Some 50 people took part in an illegal rally at the Ipoh Padang here to show their support for the Sultan of [...]

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Tim on March 18th, 2008

Apparently it should be called Anagrams :(. I still think Grabble is a better name!
I miss those days…

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Tim on March 13th, 2008

From NST:
Penang Umno will recommend to the Federal Government to stop all proposed mega projects in the state, include those planned under the Northern Corridor Economic Region (NCER), the second Penang Bridge, the light monorail transit system, the Penang Outer Ring Road, the Penang Sentral and the RapidPenang bus service.
State Umno secretary Datuk Azhar Ibrahim [...]

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Tim on March 12th, 2008

Sighh… it’s just like a fairytale. Lim Guan Eng has been sworn is as Penang’s Chief Minister.

For those who don’t know, Lim Guan Eng was imprisoned ten years ago in a politically motivated trial. He had printed a booklet accusing the then Malacca MB Rahim Thamby Chik of raping an underaged girl. In a gross [...]

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Tim on March 9th, 2008

The Sun has the figures I’ve been hunting for.

Yes, BN won 137 parliament seats to the Opposition’s 82 due to gerrymandering, especially in Sabah and Sarawak (To put it into perspective, you can fit 6 Putrajayas into Teresa Kok’s whopping 36,000 majority in Seputeh). But they only got 51% of the popular vote.
Summary rejection, in [...]

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