Monday, August 9, 2010

Everybody is a blogger

Yes, that includes you. Yes, you! The point is, if you are on any social sites, like Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, MySpace, than you are already a blogger blogging away.. Does that comes to you as a surprise? ... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys
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The iPad killer


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Finally, flash on iPad and iPhone



Held and poke the new iPad at the local Apple Store.

Nothing impressive. Just a dumb-downed netbook.

Surfed. Can't load Flash

Yes I know about HTML5. Its not here yet. Flash is here.

My son, 8 years old, surfed to his usual Flash games website.
Daddy, its broken. Its not working
That sums up the iPad.



Finally a hack to install Flash on iPad and iPhone.

Then again, I'll never buy any hyped-up, dumbed-down, walled-garden products from Apple.

Android yes.

If you don't understand that, you deserve an Apple.

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Happy 45th National Day Singapore

I live in Singapore. I love the country. That does not mean I love the ruling party, People's Action Party (PAP) The government is not PAP. PAP is the ruling party. Unfortunately, the ruling party have their members in it. How widespread? Even in the National Trade Union Congress. With the ruling party, every year Singapore have become less of a home. An article from the past. Original link is gone. Fortunately I kept it in the cloud. The persistance of information.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys
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Sunday, August 8, 2010

Blind Faith and 786

The other day someone (a Muslim) told me that 786 represents the numerical value of "In the name......" 

Where did he get that? So I asked him. 

His reply was that if you have faith you'd believe. 

I just rolled my eyes at the ridiculousness of the statement. And I'm a Muslim.

"Knowledgeable" Muslims falls for blind faith. 

As a Muslim it is not only about faith. It is faith with understanding. Then again understanding doesn't have to be profound. 

A simple reality check is all that needed. 

For Muslims just ask yourself when you do anything do you say "bismillah2.bmp" or do you say 786?

Fairly obvious isn't it? 

Thus the absurdity and ignorance becomes clear.

If 786 was written on a piece of paper, I'd just step on it.

Only for Muslims who want to understand: The Myth of 786

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The Power of Compounding

Do you know what is compounding interest?

I'll explain with a simple story.

Ages ago, there was a King who loved to play games. He has lots of games brought to him from all over his domain.

Even though he had a lot of games, he was bored and wanted something that was much more challenging.

In his kingdom, there lived a poor inventor. The King commissioned him to come up with a new game.

Months passed and finally the inventor came up with a game, that is now known as chess.

The King loved the game so much that he offered the poor inventor anything he wished for.

At that time, the kingdom riches was in rice. It produces the most rice and it is exported well beyond the kingdom borders.

"I'm a simple man."

"I would like one grain of rice for the first square of the board, two grains for the second, four grains for the third and so on doubled for each of the 64 squares of the game board”

The King laughed heartily, "Everybody that brings games to pay would just want gold or silver. Are you sure, that's all you want?"

"Yes, your majesty, I'm a simple man" repeated the inventor.

The king ordered his staff to lay down the grains of rice. By the time they reach the 40th square, the whole kingdoms supply of rice was exhausted.

The King learned that all the wealth in his kingdom would not be enough to buy the amount of rice needed on the 64th square.

The rice he asked will be around 18 billion billion. So if a bag of rice contained a billion grains, you would need 18 billion such bags.

“You have provided me with such a great game and yet I cannot fulfill your simple wish. You are indeed a genius.” said the King and offered to make the inventor as his top most advisor instead.

Compounding interest only works for the banks to enslave you.
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Apples vs Oranges

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Image by Peter ÄŒuhalev via Flickr
Posterous vs Wordpress vs Blogger

How do you compare blogging platforms?

What about Typepad, Blogger, Tumblr, Ning to name a few. 

Is one better that the other?

I have a self hosted Wordpress, where I can do this: A bar on top of any link.

I have Wordpress.com account. It's another blog.

Its there because of Akismet and I have to have the API key.

I have another blog in Blogger.
  1. Posterous for quick updates via email.
  2. Journeyman Journeys for expanded content.
  3. Articles posted in Journeyman Journeys get autoposted to Posterous.
  4. Posterous autopost to other social networks including the two other blogs.
  5. Posterous does not autopost to Journeyman Journeys.
  6. Blogger does not autopost to Posterous.
Get it?

To me Posterous is like a scooter, it gets me around fast and my self-hosted Wordpress is like a car, carries more and far more convenient.

Both still get me to my destination: Which is to reach out to more readers.

There, can you tell which platform is the best or better?

What about Squidoo? where does it fit?

It's all up to you. Hosted or Self-hosted.

Or just use Facebook as your blog or even Twitter.

Blogging boundaries have just been blurred.
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Saturday Weekly Reports : Week #31 Updates - The begining

I'm starting a weekly updates on what happened during the week. I'll try to have it as a regular post. Hey, I'm a one-man-show. Basically I'll update on new changes on this blog, technical setups and significant events that happen on the week. On this Blog: Inclusion of RSS feeds. Using of NuCaptcha. Autopost by this blog using plugin. Email is up. Internet updates: Posterous DDos Attack. Wave Google Wave bye bye. Free Drupal hosted.... continue reading at Journeyman Journeys