The Dude abides.

Barcamp.my, Day 2

So Day 2 of Barcamp started off late again for me. Or if you have been following my twitter messages, perhaps you may argue that it was early for me. Oh toh-mah-toh, toe-mae-toe. In any case, I was in time for my talk at 11am, “The Malaysian Free Software Community”. Well, almost. While I was [...]

Barcamp.my, Day 1

So, much beer on Friday night led to waking up late and almost missing Raj’s 10am talk at barcamp.my, Malaysia’s inaugral unconference. Fortunately, KL roads were clear and I was only fashionably late lah
I attended three talks at barcamp, the aforementioned Raj’s talk on his Google Summer of Code work on phpMyAdmin blob [...]

It’s the id in us

The whole security circus … glorifies … the wrong behaviour

“The whole security circus … glorifies … the wrong behaviour“. I’m with Linus here. Based on my experiences with reading php-internals and following certain security sites, there seems to be annoying superiority complex that others are forced to put up with (with the possible exception of FreeBSD). Bloody annoying to deal with, really. Email follows:

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Family loses battle in ‘bodysnatching’ dispute

The line that best sums the story below comes from the Animal Farm: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. From MalaysiaKini:
A Hindu family today lost a court battle with Islamic authorities over the rights to the body of their relative who a religious syariah court declared to be Muslim.
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