- Leonard Byrd Malcolm
Leonard Byrd Malcolm was born this evening in Pantai Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, weighing 3.58kg. Dom was admitted to hospital around 10am after her waters had broken, and contractions began in earnest around 5pm, so the labour was not too long...
- New release of Statz identi.ca plugin
I really wished that I knew of some other person in the world who uses Statz, because I've just updated my identi.ca plugin for it, which you can now download for Mac OS 10.6 or higher.
This new version 0...
- Airlines
I've just come back from Washington DC, but since I've written about that before, instead I'm going to talk about my travails in getting back home. After checking out of my hotel room at noon I had nothing else planned but to check out the Pentagon (which is right outside its eponymous Metro station...
- Philippines
We have just completed a week's holiday in the Philippines, staying in Quezon City, part of metropolitan Manila. Manila is like Kuala Lumpur, only more so - crazier traffic, bigger malls, cheaper street food and more people...
- Statz identi.ca plugin
I have just written another plugin for Statz, which is a microblogging client for Mac OS X, originally released by Google but now sadly languishing (if you use Linux, it's a little like Gwibber).
This plugin sends your posts to identi...
- Brunei
Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of the tiny Islamic nation of Brunei in Borneo, is a city of few sights, but the water village Kampung Ayer alone makes the trip worthwhile. Nearly 30 thousand people (almost a quarter of the city's population!..
- Brazil
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil - in fact, in all of Latin America. It's the archetypal concrete jungle, exhibiting all the contrasts of this budding economy with derelict buildings adjoining high-end clubs and hotels, and street people sleeping in dirty blankets outside...
- Companies I would never work for
Here it the current list of companies that I will never, ever, work for. Yes, it's a pretty short list, but that's because you have to be seriously evil to get on it. Consequently, the absence from this list of a less evil company (such as Sony or Amazon...
- Cameron Highlands
We just returned from a quick weekend trip to the Cameron Highlands in Pahang state. On the way up the winding mountain roads, we saw many bamboo roadside stalls from which the indigenous inhabitants, the orang asli, sold bottles of local honey, as well as strings of bean pods, and I think tongkat ali which is believed to be an aphrodisiac...
- Goodness
Everything that seems a good idea at the time, is; because as a good person, you can make it good. The reason you started something might not have been right, but it really doesn't matter. You can still make it good...
Twitter / qirtaiba
Twitter updates from Jeremy Malcolm / qirtaiba.
- qirtaiba: Subscribe to the IGF Community Site calendar - each #igf10 session is linked to dedicated blog and wiki pages: http://igf-online.net
- qirtaiba: Want to learn more about copyright, patents, open licensing and communications rights? Download CI's new free book! http://ci.me.my/3
- qirtaiba: New research from Israel shows "fair use" is key to achieving balanced copyright law that benefits creators and consumers: http://ci.me.my/2
- qirtaiba: New Australian research shows that adding user rights to copyright law may increase respect and compliance with the law! http://ci.me.my/2
- qirtaiba: CI's research in 24 countries proves consumers would avoid pirated copyright works if quality originals were affordable: http://ci.me.my/1
- qirtaiba: wishes all Malaysians a happy Merdeka Day
- qirtaiba: has just launched two free books on A2K - a capacity building handbook and a volume of reports. Download both at http://A2Knetwork.org now!
- qirtaiba: although married, abhors the Malaysian government's archaic policy of refusing to register births without an original marriage certificate
- qirtaiba: is a new father to Leonard Byrd Malcolm, just born and weighing in at 3.58kg
- qirtaiba: is in the hospital… baby news soon
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Dominica Malcolm
comedian, web developer, filmmaker, wife, mother, amateur chef
- Trip to the Philippines, June 2010
There are 7107 islands in the Philippines. We limited ourselves to just one of the nearly 4000 inhabited ones so I suppose you could say we didn’t really explore much of the country. We still explored as much as we were able to with our limited time. Thursday, June 10, 2010 At 30.5 weeks pregnant, [...]
- Christmas Vacation 2009-10, part 3 – Copenhagen, Malmo and Amsterdam
Copenhagen airport is pretty well hooked up to the city, with a train that takes only 12 minutes to get there. When we were collecting our luggage, we saw an ad for the Copenhagen card, which sounded like it could be pretty good value, so I told Jeremy to go ahead and get a 24 [...]
- Christmas Vacation 2009-10, part 2 – Nottingham, Cardiff, Oxford, London, and Munich
We arrived in Nottingham in the late afternoon of December 21st to spend Christmas with Jeremy’s family. Jeremy’s brother, Matt, moved to Nottingham with his family a couple of years ago to study a PhD in Theology, and his sister, Annie, and her family decided to trek over for a year at the beginning of [...]
- Christmas Vacation 2009-10, part 1 – Geneva and Manchester
We left Kuala Lumpur in the middle of the afternoon on Dec 12th, then arrived at London Stansted airport around 10:30pm GMT. It seemed maybe a hundred other travellers had the same intention as us to spend the night at the airport, and a lot of floor space was used up by people who’d brought [...]
- A Weekend in Vietnam
If you checked out my previous post, you’ll have noticed I went to Vietnam this past weekend for my birthday. However, the Cu Chi Tunnel experience was only an hour out of one day, and I have much more to share about the time I spent there. We arrived at our hotel in Saigon around [...]
- The Cu Chi Tunnel Experience in Vietnam
I never learned about the Vietnam war in school. I decided I wanted to travel to Vietnam this past weekend, for my birthday, because I tried out a couple of Vietnamese restaurants while living in Malaysia and decided I loved their food. I also saw an example of their national dress here, and thought it [...]
- English-language stand up comedy in Malaysia
If you don’t know me well, or you haven’t known me long, you would probably be unfamiliar with the fact I used to perform a bit of stand up comedy. I got into writing comedy at 15, when I was year 11 in high school, and started performing when I turned 16. My first public [...]
- Venturing into Negeri Sembilan for Hari Raya
This past weekend saw the end of Ramadan on the Islamic calendar, and thus Monday and Tuesday were public holidays here in Malaysia. This gave Jeremy a couple days off from work, so we decided to venture into a neighbouring state, Negeri Sembilan. We didn’t have a specific plan or destination, though we knew there [...]
- Chocolate-chip & cherry chocolate pizza dough cookies
I came up with this recipe when I wanted to make use of my new electric oven, and I couldn’t decide between a pizza or cookies. So I asked on Facebook, and someone suggested a cookie pizza. I attempted just that, and ended up with a cookie with the texture of a pizza-base. It might [...]
- Banana Puffs
Ingredients 8x 10cm square puff pastry sheets 3 medium bananas, peeled 2 tsp vanilla essence 1 tsp cinnamon 50g flaked almonds 1/2 cup caster sugar 1/2 cup corn flour Method 1. Mash bananas in a bowl. Add vanilla, sugar and cinnamon and mix well. Mix in almonds, then mix in corn flour. 2. Add mixture [...]
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