- Development
The Malaysian government is on mission to wrest the country out of the middle income trap in which it finds itself, and turn it into a fully developed nation by 2020.
My question is, why? Is the middle really so bad?..
- Kuching
We spent this weekend in Kuching, capital of Sarawak, which is the largest state of Malaysia. Like Western Australia it is the largest but most sparsely populated state, and is situated to the south of the other East Malaysian state of Sabah (with Brunei sandwiched in between), and to the north of the Indonesian part of Borneo...
- sadlittlewebjournal 2.9.2 released
Since it was a public holiday today, I put the time to good use by (a) fixing our front door; and (b) releasing another point version of the software that runs this blog, sadlittlewebjournal. This version fixes a few annoyances - that the facility to post by email didn't work with complex MIME emails (for example, mine are digitally signed), that the RSS feed didn't preserve the line feeds in the original post, and that special characters such as € didn't come out correctly...
- Fail
My online photo album, at one time hosted directly on this blog, is currently hosted elsewhere at this domain using the excellent open source software, Gallery 2.0. Most of the photos are mundane travel snaps, but I do have a gallery of photos showing malfunctioning embedded and industrial computer systems in public places around the world...
- The Netherlands
The last country we visited on our European holiday this year was the Netherlands. We stayed at the home of two expat friends from Australia, now living in Amsterdam but currently on holiday back home...
- Germany
We saw in 2010 in the Bavarian capital of Munich. The old city is full of beautiful architecture, though much of is has been reconstructed after its destruction in the Second World War. We took a free walking tour on our first day in the city, which included stops at an enormous cathedral called the Frauenkirche, the elaborate gothic town hall, and the Hofbräuhaus, the most famous beer house in Munich...
- Denmark
Yesterday we ended our stay in Copenhagen, Denmark - our first time in Scandinavia. Perhaps not the best time of year to visit, with -5 temperatures in the day and many of the attractions closed or with shorter hours, but that just gave us the opportunity to spend more time indoors...
- Christmas in Europe
We just experienced Christmas with the family in England, our second country stop on a holiday trip that began two weeks ago in Switzerland (where I was attending a WIPO meeting for work, while Dom and Doyle took in the sights)...
- Vietnam
This long weekend, for Dom's birthday, we have taken a trip to Ho Chi Minh City, aka Saigon. Because our time was short, we stayed largely to the tourist trail, which involved market shopping and an (admittedly excellent and unusual) water puppet theatre show on the first evening, then on the following day a tour of the wartime Cu Chi Tunnels (I'm ashamed to say I could barely tolerate the five minutes it took to crawl 100 metres), and Tay Ninh where we saw the Holy See of Vietnam's unique Cao Dai religion...
- Sharm el Sheikh
I am in Egypt, specifically in the South Sinai resort town of Sharm el Sheikh, for the fourth Internet Governance Forum. I'm blogging about the IGF itself elsewhere, but a few words here on my impressions of Egypt - or what little I can gather about it from Sharm...
Twitter / qirtaiba
Twitter updates from Jeremy Malcolm / qirtaiba.
- qirtaiba: won't be replying to the blocked "SEO specialist" (spammer) who told me "You discussion board will not be your soon. Now It will be mine..."
- qirtaiba: is frustrated with Malaysian immigration; we'll have spent six hours just in travel time to their office before getting replacement visas
- qirtaiba: is in Kuching, Sarawak for the weekend... despite almost being deported at the airport due to not having a visa http://tinyurl.com/ykwjqrc
- qirtaiba: felt confident about Australian copyright jurisprudence this morning, but now this: http://bit.ly/a2mgob
- qirtaiba: RT @michaelgeist: Australian Judge Explains Why Three Strikes Isn't Reasonable: key analysis from iiNet copyright case. http://bit.ly/aIjnuw
- qirtaiba: feels relieved to have his Linux-based TomTom back after a year making do with a Windows-based Lokatoo
- qirtaiba: is glad disaster has been averted, in rare good Australian news: http://bit.ly/9RXOO8
- qirtaiba: might have expected Malaysia to gag anonymous political speech like this, but never Australia: http://bit.ly/d0oEab
- qirtaiba: wonders how the #ACTA negotiators can "intensify their respective efforts to ,,, enhance transparency" when there never were such efforts?
- qirtaiba: wishes you Happy Thaipusam!
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Dominica Malcolm
comedian, web developer, filmmaker, wife, mother, amateur chef
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 to small saucepan. Stir over ...
- Mexican Pasta Sauce
Ingredients
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 red onion, chopped
350g minced mutton
425g red kidney beans
170g tomato paste
1 carrot, grated
1 green capsicum, chopped
28g taco seasoning mix
1/2 cup water
Method
1. Fry garlic & onion in frying pan until browned. Add in mutton, cook until browned.
2. Drain fat from pan. Return meat mixture to pan. Add taco ...
- Multicultural Kuey Teow
Ingredients
250g kuey teow flat noodle (or equivalent)
3 garlic cloves, chopped
1 red onion, chopped
260g beef mince
3 eggs
2 tblsp sweet chili sauce
1 tblsp dark soy sauce
1 tsp tumeric
80g cashews
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tblsp sunflower oil
2 carrots, grated
1 tblsp water
Method
1. Prepare noodles (if dry, boil them according to instructions on packet)
2. Heat oil ...
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