Every year I make the journey to Kampung Telaga Nenas – possibly the least known village in Malaysia – in order to celebrate Hari Raya. Before I met my wife and started making this journey, I really had no idea what to expect.  People sometimes...

Well everyone is talking about the volcano that has shut down travel in Europe. I have a number of colleagues who were hit by it.  Well, not hit by lava exactly.  But unable to get home In fact there’s a business review on later this week for...

So I’m in the homewares store today looking for a power board as I always seem to run out of power points. And while checking out (and wincing at the cost of the power board – must stop buying this stuff in normal malls) I noticed something I’ve never...

Happy to see that the latest release of Visual Studio includes support for a functional programming language F#. Back when I started at university, I was surprised to find that we were expected to learn a “weird” programming language called Haskell that...

This is pretty cool – touch and pen, working together. It kind of combines gestures with two modes of touch interaction (the finger and the pen).  So its pointing/holding with the finger, and fine work with the pen (which is a proxy for any tool...

Interesting article on CNET – Bing is integrating real-time twitter search.  Quite cool you can let it just scroll the latest tweets and easily see the top shared links – easier than clicking around on the feed. Google seems more focused on analytics...

So I arrived in Seattle a few days ago and have been playing around with Hulu . What’s Hulu?  If you are American you will think this is a pretty stupid question as everybody knows it’s the TV video streaming service that has lots of popular TV ...

Well I just love this article in The Star - Honeymoon Package for All . The state government of Terengganu (in Malaysia) will give you a second honeymoon on Perhentian island (some decent diving there by the way) if you having some trouble at home. Better...

Just found out from my good friend Damien Watkins that there is a big update to the MFC library. What can you do? Build Office 2007 style ribbons and menus, docking toolbars (like Visual Studio), tabbed documents, etc. There's a great walk-through on...

I just found this blog - looks like it is new. I like it - very high technical content on what makes various vulnerabilities tick. Not for the technically faint hearted! It includes network protocol details, code (well some initializers anyway) and disassembly...

This article in Sydney Morning Herald talks about how Malaysians are (supposedly) finding their food rather unhealthy and looking to improve their diet. This probably isn't a big shock for Malaysians reading as food is one of their daily little guilty...

I've been playing a lot of this lately (and GH2 as well) and it's a fun and very addictive game. Just read a great description of someone finishing " Through the Fire and Flames " on Expert. This is a fiendishly difficult track that I have trouble doing...