The Dude abides.

CouchDB has an IANA port

So on the heels of 0.7.0 release comes the 0.7.2 release (0.7.1 was a bugfix release) with the official CouchDB IANA port assigned.
w00tness!

Suggestions for a Better Malaysia

An excellent list of suggestions for a better Malaysia, some that caught my eye:

Fix the minimum Salary to RM950
Implement an objective based evaluation and appraisal system for the government sector.
All the existing reservation for Malays will remain with a change that these reservations are valid for ONLY the Malays, who’s [...]

foss.in schedules out!

So the foss.in schedules are out. Here is my pick of talks to attend:

OpenOffice + Fedora tracks on the project days
The FOSS.in inaugration talk
Ajunta DevStudio
How and Why You should be a Kernel Hacker
Meet Hadoop (Open Source Grid Computing)
GCC Internals: A Conceptual View into GCC
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Union Mount: VFS based Filesystem Namespace Unification for [...]

The wisdom of extracting teeth (part 3)

Looks like another wisdom tooth will be removed tomorrow. The gums have been aching in the general area of the last remaining wisdom tooth, and it’s best to get rid of it immediately lest complications and infections set in.
This year has seen the wisdom teeth rebelling and wanting to claim independence. The first extraction had [...]

The Hindraf Gathering, part deux

“The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it” - John Gilmore
MalaysiaKini has up-ed the projected number of people who attended the gathering to 30,000.
Already we have two more Al-Jazeera reports up:
Hindraf Report:

Hindraft 11.35 am report:

The Use of Unjustified Police Force
Famous human rights lawyer and activist, Malik Imtiar Sarwarat, wrote on his blog:
From the [...]