- South Korea and Taiwan
Our family just visited Seoul and Taipei. Of the two, South Korea seems much more Japanese, and Taiwan much more Chinese. Although not an unexpected observation, it's not quite so obvious as you might think...
- Qatar
I have just returned from Doha, Qatar where an UNCTAD meeting is being held. I'll be writing about the meeting itself for the Consumers International blog, but here are some jottings about the country and its culture...
- sadlittlewebjournal 3.1 released
This is the version of sadlittlewebjournal that I've been longing to release! Finally posts that you make to your news page (or journal or writings pages) will be cross-posted to your Twitter or StatusNet microblog...
- sadlittlewebjournal 3.0.1 released
Another week, another release of sadlittlewebjournal. The main change: table-free CSS layout and centering.
- sadlittlewebjournal 3.0 released
sadlittlewebjournal, the Perl-based software that powers this site (and a few others) celebrates is 10th anniversary this year! To celebrate, I'm finally bumping the major version up to 3.0, with a swag of new features...
- Bangkok
This week we returned to Thailand for the first time since our honeymoon in Phuket. But this time we were in Bangkok, which is no comparison. Thailand grew out of the now-ruined city-state of Ayutthaya, to which Bangkok is the successor...
- StatusNet YOURLS plugin
This may seem like déjà vu, because I previously posted about an identi.ca plugin that I had written for YOURLS, the personal URL-shortening service...
- Publicly Verifiable Random Selection
Online organisations commonly need to form committees that are randomly drawn from a pool of volunteers. For example, the IETF's nominations committee has long been selected in this way. But the problem is, how can its members, who may live around the world, be sure that the draw was really random?..
- Bali
It seems as though we only just got back from Langkawi, but thanks to Air Asia's promo fares, we are again cooling our toes and sipping cocktails at another tropical island, Bali. Dom was last here when she was a toddler, and I not long after that, and we had both stayed at the overpopulated beach resorts...
- Photography
I have found London one of the most difficult places to visit as an amateur photographer, because it makes my job far too easy. It is too full of obvious symbols of itself (phone booths, mailboxes, public transport, bobbies), and of alternately grand or quaint historical buildings and monuments that seemed to have been laid out ready-framed for the photographer...
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- terminus: US push for civil society at ITU "demonstrates the inconsistency of US policy regarding global governance institutions": http://jere.my/l/2l
terminus's status on Friday, 18-May-12 10:16:14 MYT
- terminus: At #IGF, leaderless and devoid of funds while there remains an IG policy vacuum, UN DESA announces it will be... running a training course??
terminus's status on Thursday, 17-May-12 18:20:50 MYT
- terminus: Just updated Ubuntu and my window controls have switched sides from left to right... anyone else experience this?
terminus's status on Thursday, 17-May-12 14:40:51 MYT
- terminus: Predictable backlash to good idea is predictable: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2854979&cid=40024723
terminus's status on Thursday, 17-May-12 11:40:06 MYT
- terminus: Current commentary on CIRP is designed to create an emotional backlash; re-read my more measured analysis from last year http://jere.my/l/2k
terminus's status on Thursday, 17-May-12 08:11:40 MYT
- terminus: Forget about security and anonymity in microsoft-skype: http://skype-open-source.blogspot.com
terminus's status on Monday, 14-May-12 10:29:22 MYT
- terminus: Leo thinks our TV is a giant iPad. He keeps pressing things that he sees on the screen.
terminus's status on Monday, 14-May-12 08:39:05 MYT
- terminus: Malaysia outdoes the UK in political scandal. Our PM is linked to the murder of his Mongolian mistress. The UK PM lied about eating a pasty.
terminus's status on Sunday, 13-May-12 12:49:08 MYT
- terminus: Rights-holder shills are going mental about our IP Watchlist with three separate (yet suspiciously similar) rants http://a2knetwork.org/l/26
terminus's status on Friday, 11-May-12 15:18:47 MYT
- dominica: Just looked up when the first banks opened in the UK... novel research. The things you learn.
dominica's status on Thursday, 10-May-12 22:56:34 MYT
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Dominica Malcolm
comedian, web developer, filmmaker, wife, mother, amateur chef
- USA, February 16-27 2012
When I initially booked this trip, it was because I had frequent flier points I wanted to use, but didn’t know what I wanted to use them for. So, since I’d enjoyed working with Oil in the Alley in Honolulu in November 2010 so much, back in April 2011, I’d discussed with Sean and R [...]
- Bangkok, Jan 3-7, 2012
We booked the flights for this trip well in advance during some AirAsia sale, and it’s probably been the shortest trip (that included flights to the destination) that we’ve had for a long time. Not that that’s a bad thing. Since Bangkok didn’t have any specific sights I was desperate to see, and I hadn’t [...]
- Bali, Nov 29-Dec 3, 2011
This trip is a new instalment of my “spend my birthday in another country” routine that is now in its 5th year. We started out the trip with a late afternoon flight to Denpasar airport on the 28th of November, which is the day before my birthday. The flight from Kuala Lumpur was 3 hours [...]
- Langkawi, Nov 1-7, 2011
Monday October 31st, 2011 Our flight to Langkawi, an island in the north of Malaysia, close to Thailand, was due to depart in the evening. It lasted all of an hour. What interested me most about the process was the fact that our ID was never checked. I supposed that it was because it was [...]
- Eastern USA + 12 hours in London, Sept 10-22, 2011
To understand the significance of this trip for me, you first need to know about a little thing called LJ Idol. LJ Idol has played a major role in my life over the last two years, to bring me to where I am today. Some people see it as a writing competition. Some people think [...]
- Trip to the Philippines, Aug 10-17, 2011
It’s been a while since I’ve been anywhere to write a travel post for! Most of our first two days on this trip were spent travelling. We arrived to KL’s LCCT early in the morning for a flight scheduled at just after 7am, but ended up departing two hours later, after we had to swap [...]
- Oil in the Alley and releasing the Music Video
As I wrote about in my last entry, part of my trip to Hawaii was spent filming a music video with improv rock duo Oil in the Alley. I’m not sure how many Mega Fans can say they’ve had such an opportunity to work with people they admire so much like I did. I lived [...]
- Macau, Hawaii and Hong Kong, November 13-29, 2010
In 2007, I was in the US for my birthday. The previous year, Australia. We’d moved to Malaysia by the time my birthday rolled around in 2008. By pure coincidence, I had managed to be in 3 different countries, 3 years in a row. That alone made me want to try being in a different [...]
- Trip to Cambodia, October 2010
12 Oct 2010 An early 7am flight to Siem Reap, Cambodia meant that we had to be up far too early in the morning. The biggest disappointment of waking up at 3:30am was that Leo (my 7 week old baby) still didn’t ask to be fed until after 5am. He could possibly have slept through [...]
- 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, [...]
Leo's Weblog
Leonard Malcolm's weblog.
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