Most of you will have heard about the rollout of TM’s High Speed Broadband (HSBB) branded as UniFi (“Fi” stands for fiber-optic by the way, and yes it sounds ridiculous if you pronounce it in bahasa baku).
UniFi Rates
TM still has not fixed its glitch on the main site that renders it unusable by all browsers [...]
Well the tweet deluge on Information and Communications Minister Rais Yatim’s “twitter is against our culture” comment has dropped off twitter’s trending topics since everyone’s going to sleep. What a day; I think many would agree they could really feel the power of social media today. [See the previous post I wrote when the trend [...]
Information Minister Rais Yatim has (inadvertently) made his mark internationally with his hashtag #yorais making #6 (and counting) on Twitter’s Trending Topics!
This was after his recent remark that Twitter and Facebook were against our culture:
“We are not saying that they cannot use Facebook or Twitter but when using such facilities they must upkeep the values [...]
Continue reading about Move over Striesand, here comes #yoRais!
One of my resolutions as a new wage-earner :) is not to buy pirated software, or at least as sparingly as possible.
The foremost reason is to support game companies, especially the small ones which need the money. Felt guilty about the fate of Troika and Interplay especially.
Another reason is that there’s strong reason to believe [...]
I sometimes find myself “filtering” conversations with others.
Take for instance something that happened to me recently – two months ago, I borrowed a book from the library to refer to for an assignment. After I was done with it I passed it to a groupmate, who was supposed to return it to the library for [...]
The Non-apology Apology. It’s actually become a well-known phrase. Wikipedia has a good article on it; and here’s another with more specific examples.
You already know the incident I’m referring to, of course. Now, I highly doubt that those two even know how to use a computer, much less be aware of other public apologies (CSMonitor [...]
Ok, ok I’m a little late to the party. But for those of you unfamiliar with the concept, think Friendster except instead of sharing friends you share inane bookmarks.
Useful for me because I’ve been piling up a lot of bookmarks and need a place to organize them. Trying to decide between Del.icio.us and BlinkList atm.
Del.icio.us [...]
The Just World Effect, closely related to the concept of “karma”, is a cognitive bias based on the belief that good things happen to good people; bad things to bad people. I would describe it as an anthromorphism of the cosmos – humans reward good actions and bad actions, so it is tempting to think [...]
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