The Dude
abides.Saturday afternoon saw an incredible slow Internet connection. Running:
ping -A -c 10000 -i 0.5 202.188.0.133
indicated seriously evil 25% packet droppage somewhere between the DSL modem and the remote StreamyX gateway. Called up TMnet’s tech support and after they kept insisting to type in ipconfig /dnsflush whilst blitely ignoring the fact that it’s not a damn [...]
Loaded up MalaysiaKini today to see the following headline on its front page:
Incredible! TheStar is not reporting anything yet online, but here is an excerpt from MalaysiaKini’s excellent reporting:
Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Mohd Hishamudin Mohd Yunus in a landmark decision ruled that Abdul Malek’s arrest at the height of the reformasi demonstrations was unlawful [...]
Colin Charles beat me to the blog post but his writing mirrors the thoughts I have been having about the Angkasawan sham since it was announced some years ago. When the Angkasawan programme was first announced, I wrote and predicted in a different blog that the programme would be used as a political “feel-good” tool [...]
I finished reading Banker to the Poor (Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty) by Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize winner) a couple weeks ago, it makes for fantastic reading primarily because it is told from a first person’s perspective and discusses the initial start of micro-lending (where Yunus was shocked to learn [...]
“Penang Indians have nothing“, so MalaysiaKini reports. They present the following statistics:
80,000 or 60 percent were wage earners in the lower income brackets.
Average monthly income was between RM500 and RM1, 000 per household.
Seven percent were living in hardcore poverty.
About 80 percent in the manufacturing industry, Penang’s biggest revenue earning sector, were low-level workers.
Involvement in the [...]
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