colin charles collection

Sitting in cab 30H-5144 heading to the Hanoi airport. Crazy driver? Left crap hanoi stars hotel,...

Dec 30th

Perfume pagoda completed. Leaving Hanoi tomorrow, clearly rather sad. At the Tamarind Cafe, soaking...

Dec 29th

Hanoi is wifi’ed everywhere. For free. Standing on the street corner of Pho Hang Mam and...

Dec 29th

Wp2.3.2 released? Sigh, never release software during the christmas/new year/end of year period. Its...

Dec 29th

Bum aching! 12km bike ride yesterday, on horrible ‘buffalo roads’. Much to see in Hanoi,...

Dec 29th

In hanoi. Walking around, ancient/dilapitated buildings. Lunch at a vietnamese restaurant filled...

Dec 26th

She moves, its your love on the radio now. Brings back long-time memories. Sigh.

Dec 25th

All good things happen on Christmas. Some great work-related information, and good realisation(s)...

Dec 24th

Sweet. I’ve just been burned by a cigarette on meh face. Fsck. Gotta love melbourne’s...

Dec 24th

Probably the most common question I get asked: ‘are you local people?’. Bah, do I look...

Dec 24th

It has become blatantly obvious to me that I shant pick up a girl from a nightclub. These joints are...

Dec 24th

At maison with william. Makes up for the sausage fest of last night… Rock.

Dec 24th

Not to sound like the Grinch, but for some reason, it just doesn’t feel like Christmas...

Dec 23rd

Christmas Eve dinner, check. Maison or sunshine, within the hour or so. Can’t drink too much...

Dec 23rd

Hoping it doesn’t rain tmrw during the party… Otherwise, thinking of what might be later...

Dec 23rd

Maison = sausage fest on sunday night. Literally :( oh well, tirath, william, ruben and i are here

Dec 23rd

At the Aeon bukit tinggi shopping centre. Its huge. Wonder if klang-ites have modernised, and the...

Dec 21st

Ruben and i are at maison. VIP treatment :) might’ve found the thai club replacement. Huzzah

Dec 21st

At a party… 3 slr’s. 2 belong to girls. I’m outnumbered, but my 30mm rocks…...

Dec 20th

In decanter. Im’s coming… Surprise!

Dec 20th

12kg of various, *large* prawns, rm600. Fiesta time ;)

Dec 20th

almost off to hartamas, for tonight’s birthday party…

Dec 20th

Kuala selangor is empty! Nice to eat in a quiet environment. Hope food comes quickly.

Dec 20th

seafood for lunch… kuala selangor beckons

Dec 20th

virtualbox all setup, and we have a new kernel: 2.6.23.9-85.fc8. I was actually happy with...

Dec 20th

the reason i have vista: workbench. it works!

Dec 20th

@liewcf: been into gps units for about a decade now… in-car, on-bike, in-hand. seen the tech...

Dec 20th

vista getting its updates installed. i’m mildly happy things are “working”. now to...

Dec 20th

@wahlau: ppp is apparently evil. i don’t necessarily think so (as they insist on full...

Dec 20th

@aizatto: walking around midvalley, e61i is hard to find. shop sellers say its a slow moving item....

Dec 20th

@liewcf: oh, the gps stuff tends to be cool….

Dec 20th

@sheeri: congratulations :) you submitted quite the few! /me remembers voting

Dec 20th

my talk has been accepted for the 2008 mysql conference & expo. yum

Dec 20th

i can has networking in vista!

Dec 20th

as it is with vista… networking in a VM never works out of the box. it is truly, the suck

Dec 20th

virtualbox… uses a lot of memory, but at least, i don’t see Vista BSODing on me....

Dec 20th

Paddington’s house of pancakes? A PHOP? Man, IHOP sounds much better for pancakes. Tony...

Dec 19th

I can has a nokia e90 to play with. Yum. Hope i get my n95’s soon, gps looks cool. E61i not in...

Dec 19th

OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas: How...

Dec 18th

Virtualization technology makes setting up...

Dec 18th

N3.12771 E101.63697 - Google Maps

Dec 18th

FreeBSD - What's cooking for FreeBSD 7?

Dec 18th

moodle, plone: technologies to watch, master?

Dec 18th

If payperpost requires one to have a google pagerank of 2 and above, wonder how a blogger will feel...

Dec 18th

Using OpenOffice Base 2.3.1 with PostgreSQL -...

Dec 18th

my wish this christmas: peace on earth. or at least, the earth that revolves, around me…

Dec 18th

Why Ubuntu succeeds: Shuttleworth isn't an...

Dec 18th

ODF and PDF document support in Plone —...

Dec 18th

Free wifi at jarrod & rawlins. I’m beginning to like this place just that little bit more

Dec 17th

In jarrod & rawlings, sipping a kilkenny, with william. Reminds me of vintry. Just an outdoor...

Dec 17th

my mom apparently reads my blog, in an attempt to become even more net savvy. oh oh ;)

Dec 17th

Fedora more successful, developer-wise, than...

Dec 17th

done something odd. sent out invites for a party, via facebook. i created my first facebook event...

Dec 17th

WordCamp Melbourne: making money with...

Dec 17th

kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8 allows brightness controls to be displayed in gnome. nice! though it might...

Dec 17th

munching on christmas cookies now… oh tis the season to be merry. only another week, eh

Dec 17th

starbucks, after coffee chewing gum. usd$1.95. rm10. for gum?!? boy, am i regretting not buying more...

Dec 17th

i can has leave! no work till next year, huzzah

Dec 17th

twitter is working? yum. last working week, and i’m trying hard to want to do stuff

Dec 17th

The Art of Innovation - Guy Kawasaki

Dec 17th

At Asia cafe. Early. Crowded as, live football match seems to be the cause. Horrendous to find...

Dec 15th

liking my new APC external battery. all is well, i have a whole bunch of new/extra connectors now....

Dec 12th

i have the ‘latest’ linux flashplayer. why do sites still tell me i have an old flash...

Dec 12th

@cos: upgrade to F-8 :)

Dec 12th

paid up for linux.conf.au 2008! credit card company called me within 45 seconds of approval, to see...

Dec 12th

still got a cough. at least the nose is sorted. this “get well with orange juice and no...

Dec 12th

palate, later tonight, it would seem.

Dec 11th

for some reason, i start feeling less secure day in and day out, or as days go by. got to start...

Dec 11th

Adventures with Apache’s Rewrite Engine (and...

Dec 11th

apache problem fixed after taking a dinner break. i heart RewriteLog. remind me to get more intimate...

Dec 10th

beats head against wall, with regards to apache and mediawiki

Dec 10th

I can has the flu. Sneezing, flowing nose, headache. Last night’s sleep didn’t help....

Dec 10th

feeling significantly sick as well. nose flowing. sneezing. maybe all i need is rest, after the...

Dec 9th

… of course, as luck would have it, APC Malaysia doesn’t have stock of my product. Its...

Dec 9th

External battery is being sorted out by APC. Waiting on RMA number, they have a place I can pick...

Dec 9th

Some sort of electrical short, and i now have a busted external battery and psu. Thankful its not...

Dec 8th

favourite bangalore bookstore closed on sundays :( found crossword, but its generally sucky for tech...

Dec 8th

Fedora 8 on the Dell Inspiron 640m

Dec 8th

LKML: Sheela: [PATCH] Fix lguest...

Dec 8th

“Your risk of being overweight rises 65% for ever diet cola you drink each day” —...

Dec 8th

foss.in, day 1: kernel hacking, hadoop,...

Dec 8th

back from the speakers party. just realised i have spent a week in bangalore now. longest i’ve...

Dec 7th

Ruby on snails. At foss.in speaker party, rocking party

Dec 7th

.::t3rmin4t0r::. : php/inclued-0.3.html

Dec 7th

everyone in the foss.in audience, is part of the architecture of participation. from code, to bug...

Dec 7th

vaporbase :: Evaluating Web Development...

Dec 7th

Books, recently

Dec 7th

Nutrun » Blog Archive » RubyWorks Production...

Dec 7th

“let’s hope my machine doesn’t crash” — on kvm, from a qumranet guy....

Dec 7th

@burntfilm: haha! i’m at a linux conference, foss.in, in Bangalore, India. its fun, and there...

Dec 7th

@burntflim: are all of you at the flickr meet, enjoying yerself? say hi to all the others, from...

Dec 7th

@stewartsmith: heh, can’t remember. doesn’t bother me, i’ll pay for it later...

Dec 7th

yum over really slow links performs pretty badly. i’m having to yum clean all quite regularly,...

Dec 7th

in amit shah’s talk on kvm. can’t wait to ask why my vista blue screens!

Dec 7th

@stewartsmith: yeah, mysql is paying ;) but i remember a time when the professional registration was...

Dec 7th

have just registered for linux.conf.au 2008. have you? next up, paying for the damn thing…...

Dec 7th

smarty is really bad for performance, after gopal ran tests on it. he overloads include and require,...

Dec 7th

looking into the php opcode engine now! modify it, to disable eval() even.

Dec 7th

remastering php talk, with Gopal Vijayaraghavan. looks very interesting! just had a long chat with...

Dec 7th

have a list of 4 database related books that i want to buy… they might cost ~usd$500, lets see...

Dec 7th

@stewartsmith: give her an upgrade, to fedora 8 :)

Dec 7th

rasmus is giving us a walkthru of *.php.net. not the usual rasmus talk…

Dec 7th

“i still see PHP as primarily a templating system. i write my business logic in C”...

Dec 7th

learning to use IRC, and bzr now in AfC+shreyas talk. the room is still really crowded,...

Dec 7th

arrived at last day, for foss.in. andrew cowie is talking about being a user to developer in 90...

Dec 7th

i can has hot water for bathing today! huzzah!

Dec 7th

rusty spent 3m telling us about ANTI-Threads, which doesn’t exist yet, but clearly it’ll...

Dec 6th

rusty’s up with “i hate threads”

Dec 6th

plan9 guy wrote a timer using sdl+pygame+python. wrote on OS X, runs cross platform in linux too.

Dec 6th

comedian = math teacher = mr. mick. he apparently has a blog, somewhere

Dec 6th

we have a comedian on stage. he’s a math teacher, but a comedian

Dec 6th

conference is coming to an end… things close early as per normal in india, so drinks were cut...

Dec 6th

http://jpad.wikispaces.com/

Dec 6th

“regular hand massage” —danese cooper on better input devices for HCI

Dec 6th

ditesh is doing a lightning talk about couchdb now. he’s giving us an intro to asterisk, then...

Dec 6th

gstreamer was ported in under 6 months, normal audio apps in s60/symbian will take 2 years to write!...

Dec 6th

nokia is pushing their Open C for mobile phone development, on the s60 platform. which is kinda hot

Dec 6th

rasmus only gets to travel economy class. and wow, he clearly travels heaps… 4 days/6 days...

Dec 6th

qtwebkit… not doing so well with javascript (aizatto.com b0rken, flickr badge is fine),...

Dec 6th

danese cooper seems to have a bit of a sore throat. we’re at the lightning talks that...

Dec 6th

the next version (GTA02) of the openmoko phone, looks like it might actually rock. no h.264 in the...

Dec 6th

harald welte has an interesting accent! good reasons as to why kdrive is being run, even with the...

Dec 6th

openmoko talk is packed! harald welte clearly is a crowd puller

Dec 6th

stuttering when asked what large public websites that run on postgresql. quotes odd social...

Dec 6th

db migrations are always “interesting”, clearly… no 2 databases get performance...

Dec 6th

quotas can be implemented via tablespaces. also, other users can see other users files ? what,...

Dec 6th

#1: their customers don’t want anything else? #2: cpanel doesn’t run on pgsql. and...

Dec 6th

“why do so few hosting companies not provide postgresql?” — since they’re...

Dec 6th

“microsoft’s implementation of SQL/XML is completely non-standard” —josh...

Dec 6th

“there is no one size fits all solution for database” — josh berkus

Dec 6th

pgsql is really not meant to be run on handheld/embedded devices. it is heavy writing

Dec 6th

“we have commercial vendors running in under 20mb of ram” - ick, surely its not doing...

Dec 6th

pgsql thinks sqlite, is a better embedded db, so no point for embedded pgsql. thats a nice,...

Dec 6th

6wks development, 2wks everything committed. they’re moving ‘faster’ next year!...

Dec 6th

aah, skyline was rejected for entry into pg-core. it is in pgfoundry. fair enough…

Dec 6th

SKYLINE, to power approximate queries. so postgresql is now “extending” sql with some...

Dec 6th

this whole postgresql HOT in 8.3 looks interesting, i’m going to have to take a look at it...

Dec 6th

scratch that, we have 2 snorers in the talk. one has just stopped.

Dec 6th

josh’s laptop is foobaring. we have a snorer in the talk!

Dec 6th

Mac OS X Manual Page For mysql-test-run.pl(1)

Dec 6th

Antony's MySQL bits: Testing MySQL on a...

Dec 6th

pavan deolasee, lead engineer at enterprisedb now, living in pune, and graduated from iit bombay....

Dec 6th

slides updated, breakfast had, compile of qtwebkit seemed to have failed (compile succeeded, build...

Dec 6th

up early. revising slides. still burping beer? ick. best to have breakfast later. only 40 more...

Dec 6th

Phenom: Unbound

Dec 6th

P.A. Semi - PWRficient Evaluation Kit

Dec 6th

Linux 2.4 Packet Filtering HOWTO: Using...

Dec 6th

Phenom: The "Linux Can!" Story

Dec 6th

“deploy developers” - i.e. an upgrade of a push-button engineers

Dec 6th

sydney opera house, owns a trademark, on all photos taken of the opera house. wtf?!?

Dec 6th

“i think software patents are bananas” — simon phipps

Dec 6th

you can’t pirate free software, so WIPO can’t interfere -> no foreign interference

Dec 6th

investment in skills == investment in local workforce == keep your sovereignty. Simon reminds me of...

Dec 6th

Its “Going Mainer Mainstream!” — Simon Phipps

Dec 6th

the idea of a global mesh, is leading to a changing society, and thats what FOSS is about

Dec 6th

simon phipps is going to announce some magic developer program for opensolaris. rain is keeping folk...

Dec 6th

Secure travelling tips with iptables and SSH...

Dec 6th

can successfully see about:blank in qtwebkit. no other URL will load, errors being spewed, left,...

Dec 6th

Open source software testing tools

Dec 6th

Geeking with Greg: Yahoo Pig and Google...

Dec 6th

i went to the plan9 talk expecting to be bored, however, it seems interesting :) unfortunately, i...

Dec 5th

Programming CouchDB with Javascript - plok

Dec 5th

“But at least the Malays reunited under the ‘threat’ of the non-Malays — a tried and...

Dec 5th

where oh where, might xmltramp be

Dec 5th

Key KOffice Developers Talk About KOffice 2...

Dec 5th

building sugar, and you’ll get selinux avc denials - SELinux is preventing ldconfig...

Dec 5th

i just heard a windows machine boot up, at foss.in

Dec 5th

how and why to be a kernel hacker. X woes, are always around sadly. Linux and X, WiFi,...

Dec 5th

to check later: plone + SqlAlchemy + a real rdbms. Tempted to actually attend that talk, but I think...

Dec 5th

feeling hungry. probably a bad idea to have skipped breakfast. bah

Dec 5th

pretty, pretty bling in the webkit talk. where might my gtk-webkit be?

Dec 5th

seats in the SDA auditorium seem kinda smallish. or its just that i’m getting big. worrying...

Dec 5th

webkit jokers get most work done on #webkit on freenode. i find that ironic. where’s the...

Dec 5th

RSB Blogs » Blog Archive » The Software Tools...

Dec 5th

reducing the footprint of python applications...

Dec 5th

enjoying hadoop talk, can’t wait for the next qtwebkit one now. wondering if i can fit some...

Dec 5th

Mozilla party at Opus, summary of project...

Dec 5th

for once, i’m not agreeing with Stephen O’Grady, wrt his thoughts on Fedora -...

Dec 4th

24 ways

Dec 4th

24 ways: Capturing Caps Lock

Dec 4th

Sun is really trying hard to build community. look at their foss.in blog -...

Dec 4th

Days 1 & 2 at foss.in 2007

Dec 4th

in Juergen Schmidt’s talk on writing openoffice.org components. its not as crowded as...

Dec 4th

fedora project day @ foss.in. rahul speaks, he’s almost done

Dec 4th

pidgin is buggy with proxies… now i actually have to debug it, which means spending time i...

Dec 4th

falcon doesn’t run on big endian machines. all my SSH access boxes, are POWER-based. grr

Dec 3rd

“one of the hardest thing in the open source world is how to get a straight answer” -...

Dec 3rd

“If you’re a Trolltech employee, keep your mouth shut.” — Andrew Cowie on...

Dec 3rd

Douglas Crockford's Javascript

Dec 3rd

Port forwarding with netfilter

Dec 3rd

how do i get g729 and g723 for ekiga?

Dec 3rd

firefox2 has sqlite built-in

Dec 3rd

Mary Colvig, from Mozilla, introduces. Pity they changed the schedule, because now the pretty cool...

Dec 3rd

Getting to foss.in, i just crossed a road. With the help of a police officer. And i still felt like...

Dec 2nd

heading to Hosur Main Road for Lunch+meeting with the webyog guys

Dec 2nd

facebook is generally really slow in india

Dec 2nd

damnit. /away <msg> and /away (empty, signifies i’m back) works in irssi. in xchat, i...

Dec 2nd

pork vindaloo has portuguese heritage. wne, and ginger (or was it garlic?). came to india, via goa....

Dec 1st

today’s gripe: kvm in Ubuntu Gutsy installs Vista, kvm in Fedora 8 doesn’t (Vista...

Dec 1st

does anyone use virt-manager ? in fact, has anyone succeeded getting virt-manager + qemu to...

Dec 1st

Asian Centre for Human Rights - Malaysia:...

Dec 1st

seems the silly room cleaners decided it would be nice to turn off my electricity. good thing my...

Dec 1st

happy with my stash of shashi tharoor books + lolita. all for about 1,000rupees only!

Dec 1st

Size differences between WAV, OGG, MP3

Dec 1st

Paneer, butter chicken, ghobi manchurian, rice. I cannot be happier

Dec 1st

In a Kerala restaurant! Having a kingfisher, waiting for lunch. Beer, generally safer than water ;)

Dec 1st

“Malaysia: Racism is allowed, protest against racism isn’t” http://tinyurl.com/ynsuy2

Dec 1st

time to go find food in bangalore… nothing like a hot shower to wake you up :)

Dec 1st

my advice for the day: “live life, and never be controlled by /anyone/”

Dec 1st

just booked a 4-day trip to Hanoi, Vietnam. what shall i do there? Sapa vs. Halong Bay? Can I do...

Dec 1st

In Bangalore. Nice hotel (Droog). Dislike the fact that bars/clubs close at 11.30pm yesterday :(

Dec 1st

At starbucks. A coffee at rm14? No wonder this is the yuppie lifestyle. Picked up some clothes, of...

Nov 30th

Noticing more malaysian camwhore bloggers writing for payperpost. Some, giving content summaries in...

Nov 30th

Sam chan, tropical audio malaysia. Thoughts? Talks too much, condescending man. Possibly misinformed...

Nov 30th