Summary - an all too very brief one - by the ever-considerate me, specially dedicated for make benefit those who happen to have the naive notion that politics is boring. Because in actual fact - real-life politics -- Malaysian politics -- is more interesting and engaging than fiction.
SUMMARY:
BN component party from Sabah, with a grand total of 2 (two) parliamentary seats - its president - who we note is not a Member of Parliament himself - proposes a vote of no confidence against the Prime Minister.
This said party president is one of a long line of Sabah Chief Ministers, as seen in the Sabah National State Museum... And that exhibit has so many faces displayed, you wonder how long each actually warmed the seat.
For those who came in late, there used to be a system of 'rotation' for Chief Ministers, but the rules of the game were changed once 'service' (as in badminton) was passed to a certain party. This game sounds like CalvinBall.. from the Calvin & Hobbes comic strip, where you can change the rules when you hold the ball.
So, what's wrong with the below article?
Highlighted point 1: "It is disrespectful to the Prime Minister". Wow, that is like, the, Revelation of the Century. People are now proposing a vote of no confidence against the PM. So how else would it be?
"...denied speculation that... pulling out of the Barisan".
He is right on this account. They are not pulling out of the Barisan, they will be kicked out of the Barisan.
But wait... Maybe despite BN's show of indignation, they might not kick out this party for fear of losing these 2 (two) seats.
...in which case, this opens the chance that this party might voluntarily quit Barisan. If this were to happen, it would be embarassing, people leaving before you can fire them.
But how much more embarassing than things already are ... who knows?
KOTA KINABALU: SAPP deputy president Datuk Raymond Tan said he was
confused and embarrassed about the party's move to move a motion of
no-confidence against the Prime Minister.
He said that the
party's supreme council had not been consulted on the matter, accusing
SAPP president Datuk Yong Teck Lee of acting arbitrarily.
Saying
he would attend the party supreme council meeting scheduled tomorrow,
he however questioned the party's rationale of having made the decision
first.
"It is not proper for us to do it when (Datuk Seri)
Abdullah (Ahmad Badawi) is the Barisan chairman. It is disrespectful to
the Prime Minister," said Tan, who is Sabah Deputy Chief Minister and
Infrastructure Minister.
On the meeting, Tan said: "If it (the
no-confidence motion) was already pre-planned and decided, what are we
going to discuss? The damage is done."
He said the move was embarrasing as the SAPP won its seats on a Barisan ticket.
Tan said he was not making any stand on the issue at the moment before attending the meeting.
He
said SAPP had been very vocal and even blunt on Sabah issues and the
Federal Government had been responding to various requests.
Tan had on Monday denied speculation that the SAPP would be pulling out of the Barisan.
In all, what I can say is we have to wait and see how things will
unfold in the next 2 weeks - 3 months period. I can't say that
everything that is happening now or is looking to happen is definitely
going to be something good... but as it is - this country seems to be
losing its competitiveness and will continue to be so if inefficiency
and wastage continue to go unchecked.
A lot of problems stem from non-accountability, non-transparency
leading to blatant high-handed abuse of privileges by the
well-connected, all the time riding on championing the cause of the
less economically well-off ... but in the end, benefits all accrue to
those who don't need to be helped by such benefits, while never
reaching those who really need the said benefits.
Our current Prime Minister... one can say that he inherited all the deeply entrenched, in fact, now institutionalized
problems that was introduced by his predecessor.. but when one thinks
of this scenario: Had the so-called 'political tsunami' not occured,
would he have shook things up to change things for the better ...? Or would he just continue the same practices as his predecessor, since his own flock of people have 'not yet reaped the benefits' as the one before him had?
However, thinking from another angle, lucky that it is him who became
the PM (as opposed to someone else). If not, if it is someone else with
an iron fist... political blogs might be forcefully shut down in more severe ways than just the current lawsuits.
The deplorable thing about wastage is that after 50 years of independence and enjoying abundant natural resources, the necessary measures to ensure that continuedand sustainable benefits are enjoyed by many generations to come were not taken... and now the chance seems to get slimmer by the day. As you know, as in any resource-management build base game like WarCraft... there are only limited gold mines on the map with limited gold amount inside each... as the game drags on, all players will eventually not be able to build any more units... thus the game cannot go on indefinitely...
Perhaps this is the Dutch Disease ... when got so many other things good to import... but we want to import this one. pffft...
Look at this for what should have, could have, happened, especially in resource-rich, low population Sabah and Sarawak ... or even the whole Malaysia, for that matter... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway#Economy
After the rise in petrol prices and inflation, finally something went down... the stock market.
Cited as 'due to political uncertainty' in The Star newspaper... In view of this 'cost' priced into today's market I hope that this political shake-up will change things for the better in the long term. Somehow...
More site updates...!
1. Added MyBlogLog ... don't know yet though whether it can be integrated with JoomlaComment without the need for my (gasp) looking at code... anyone?EDIT: temporarily removed this.
2. Added "Recent Comments" on sidebar... as the PHP comment notification email feature is dodgy. Anyone had any experience facing PHP emailing problems and in solving that?
The cool thing, though, about this Recent Comments feature is that mouse-overing over the entries will provide a pop-up with more details! It's a cool JavaScript, I reckon... you might have seen this in action on the Malaysia Today site. Which, by the way, uses the same content management system as mine ;)
3. Also added a Categories sidebar. I'm sure experienced coders would find it exceedingly easy to write scripts to pull the corresponding entries out from the database, but... I just want, as much as possible, to be blissfully insulated from actual code! (yes, that holy exorcism artifact) After all, the purpose of blogging engines and content management systems such as Wordpress and Joomla is to ensure that Evil Akuma (for example, like ... ) continue to walk the earth with impunity. Talk about opening portals...
I tend to agree with this comic.
How many of you have ever witnessed something like this..? Think...
The importance of "ICT" has often been relentlessly emphasized by the modern media - and so here it is, the latest contribution to the ICT field at Interview With The UltraBeast - "Irresistible Cutesyness Today"!
Original source from Yahoo Videos. :)
EDIT: Just want to record down that this is the first video that is directly hosted on my webhost... let me know if it's slow loading... or the exact opposite - all that pleasantly smooth exclusive bandwidth, just for you (YESS you!)
Although the usage of Synergy once you've got it set up is one of joyful utmost simplicity, the set up stage itself might be a mite challenging. Fret not, Interview With The UltraBeast is here to make your life more enjoyable, not to make it more difficult :)
As such, what else better than a step-by-step pictorial tutorial!
I owe many occasions of enjoyable moments of techie life to the existence of such Internet content, I fondly reminisce... and so, here it is!
First of all, some basic concepts:
You have 2 (or more) PCs. One will be the 'server' (pelayan), the others all 'clients' (pelanggan).
The PC which is connected to keyboard and mouse that you want to use is the server.
Install the Synergy software on all the PCs that you want to share the keyboard and mouse.
There is no mystery, the PCs just connect to each other on the same LAN. You don't even need to enter IP addresses, to know why, read on...
Then :-
Start up the Synergy software on the server. In my case, my desktop PC.
Click on Configure under server.
'Screens' refer to the computers that will be controlled through this software. In my case, my desktop is called 'amd' and my notebook is called 'ubill'.
Added those 2 screens by clicking '+' and typing them in. Where did those 'screen names' come from and what do they represent? That is shown in the next picture.
After adding the screens, add the edges of the screens where the mouse dragged beyond will cause the pointer to cross over to the next.
As shown, the right edge of my desktop screen crosses over to my notebook's screen. The '15% to 100%' setting is so that the mouse cannot cross over on the top 15% of my screen right edge... this is to prevent my mouse pointer from going over when I'm trying to click the "X" window close button on the top right.
The next line says my desktop is to the left edge of my notebook. I forgot to put this the first time, which resulted in my mouse cursor not being able to return to my desktop PC :p (Fret not, if this happens just quit the Synergy program on either one of the PCs to disconnect)
The 'screen name' is actually just the name of your computer as it appears in My Network Places (fondly known formerly as 'kejaringan kejiranan' or 'Network Neighbourhood' in those Win98 machines.)
The easy way to find out is to right-click on My Computer>>Properties - Computer Name tab.
Look ma, no IP addresses! :-)
Start up the program on the client (notebook) side, but choose settings as above, keying in the Computer Name of the server in the box.
Don't worry, if you keyed in the same name as the current computer, after ~10 secs a message will alert you.
(This happened because I took the screen shots on the same PC :D ) Man, didn't they just think of everything that you could do wrong?
At some point you may be prompted to 'Unblock' this application by your Windows Firewall, just do it in order to use this software.
If it still doesn't work for you, first thing check your firewall whether is it blocking this app.
The search keyword for this kinda thing is : Keyboard Mouse (KM) sharing.
Which is the little brother of KVM sharing, which is Keyboard-Video(monitors)-Mouse sharing. Of which some hardware might be needed, the coolest I've seen so far is one from Belkin. I think it's called Belkin Flip, if I recall correctly.
Next follows some unnecessary (so, no need for mass paranoia, people) but interesting notes:
My friend alerted me that could it be possible for someone else to inadvertantly (or deliberately) get control of your PC?
Well, the only possibility is that if you set a allowed screen name in the list (e.g. 'abc') and you are running the software as 'server' on your PC, and another dude (or your little sister) on your network happens to change her Computer Name to 'abc' as well, thus gaining a connection to your PC, sliding her mouse off her screen into yours and accidentally playing your treasured porn collection.
But of course the software must be running as 'client' on her side and specified to connect to your Computer Name.
It is a very unlikely chain of events to happen since you are the one running the 'server' and doing all the settings... If you are worried, just don't run this software ... so it is 99.9999% safe for us, people who definitely, undoubtedly, know what we are doing...
... either that, or I hope you didn't turn your speakers on too loud ...
Well now folks... finally cleared up a bit of my stuff and set up my rig, as shown in the following photos.
My rig.
Observant readers would notice that I am using one full-sized keyboard and mouse to control both PCs.
*Gasp*... how is this possible?
This is the answer.
So, how does it work?
Just drag your mouse pointer past the edge of the screen and your mouse pointer will cross over to the other screen, after crossing over your mouse and keyboard will function as the keyboard and mouse for the other PC.
Reverse the motions to control again the first PC. Neat huh? :-)
Reminds me of a Cantonese movie of quite some time back, where a computer virus attacking the HK Police Force's computers was graphically represented by a large piranha screen saver eating through multiple side-by-side PC screens. LOL...
KUALA
TERENGGANU: A property negotiator has received the blessings of his
three wives to wed his newfound sweetheart who is 30 years younger than
him.
The Syariah High Court approved the application of Abu
Bakar Embong, 54, after it found that the father of 25 children met all
the prerequisites under Islamic law to take a fourth wife.
Judge
Shaikh Ahmad Ismail granted Abu Bakar, who also has three
grandchildren, permission to take Suhaili Alias, 25, as his wife.
Shaikh
Ahmad advised Abu Bakar to be fair to all his wives, tend to the
religious needs of his children, and take his three wives on a
pilgrimage to Mecca.
Abu Bakar has fathered 11 boys and 14 girls
from his three marriages, with the youngest being four months old and
the eldest 25 years.
“The court had considered the affidavit
submitted by Abu Bakar, where he stated that he earned RM20,000 a month
and had provided houses and cars for each of his wives,” the judge
added.
“Therefore, with consent from his wives, the court allows Abu Bakar to marry a fourth wife.”
His
three wives – Asnah Jusoh, 46, Mazumi Ismail, 45, and Norazlina
Ariffin, 25, – all from Kampung Telok Manir here, also told the court
that they had no qualms about their husband marrying another.
The
wives later told reporters that their husband was a loving, fair and
responsible man and they had arranged for him to marry Suhaili, who is
unemployed.
When met, Abu Bakar said there was no secret to keeping all his wives happy, but he believed in treating them equally.
“As
long as I can afford another wife and am strong, I don’t see why I
can’t marry,” added Abu Bakar, who married his first wife at the age of
19.
Recently, the same court had deferred its decision on an
application by lorry driver Mohamed Nor Awang, 57, to marry for the
fourth time. It was not convinced he could financially support another
wife.
Mohamed had already obtained the nod from his three wives to marry clerk Suzi Sulong, 34.
Lyrics translation for the First Ending Song for Tokimeki Memorial - ~ Only Love ~ - Kiseki no Kakera has now been approved and posted up at AnimeLyrics.com !
^_^
The highlighted points... are simply nothing short of impressive. "Fashion metal strips into car keys... within a minute, including disarming the alarm system."
The best description of this, to borrow this quote from a friend -- "Malaysia also got a lot of MacGyver".
KLANG:
A car thief nicknamed ‘Radiator Raja’ has been arrested and
investigations reveal that his relatives had helped him cannibalised
the vehicles before pushing the parts to workshops.
The man, 36, has been on the police wanted list for the past 18-months.
He
has been getting the help of his 28-year-old wife, uncle and
brother-in-law to cannibalise a car within an hour before the parts
were disposed off to workshops or spare part outlets.
Klang OCPD
Assistant Commissioner Mohamad Mat Yusof said initial investigations
showed that with the arrest of Radiator Raja, some 30 cases of stolen
vehicles have been solved.
Police believed that from Jan to May this year he had stolen 18 cars in Shah Alam and here.
“Our
men had uncovered a family of thieves. We are glad that we have nabbed
Radiator Raja, his wife and his uncle. We are looking for others in
connection with the case,” he said.
According to a mechanic,
Radiator Raja was able to fashion metal strips into car keys according
to their model and could steal a car within a minute, including
disarming the alarm system.
On stealing a car he would hand it
over to his uncle who would dismantle the engine and his brother-in-law
would cut up the body to be pushed to workshops.
Police are also trying to trace his brother-in-law and a workshop operator.
ACP
Mohamad added that most of the cars stolen were models such as Nissan
Sunny 130Y, Toyota Corolla, Toyota Camry and Proton Wira.
I think having the character "?" in the Blog post title makes FireFox's Live Bookmarks fail to load the RSS... my guess is that my RSS script should replace the character with a &char; corresponding to "?" in the RSS feed generation. Anyway, not on the top priority list now.
I am new to using Firefox, and also, blogging. I have the icon on top on the tool bar and it says belle.art which is my blog name. When I right click it it says bookmarkfeedfailedtoload.
I wonder where I have missed the boat? If anyone else has figured out a
similar or same problem please let me know. Thank you.
likabel
Open HTML page code and be sure the content of the href attribute from
<link rel="alternate" href="#*$!" ...
matches your feed URL.
After deleting items in Feeder they still show up in Safari.
Safari
and some other RSS readers keep a copy of your items for a certain
period of time. You can see this period in Safari's RSS preferences.
You can clear Safari's cache of items by clicking the Remove Now button and restarting Safari.
How can I get Safari or other browsers to auto-detect a feed?
Some
web browsers (e.g. Safari, Firefox, OmniWeb) and RSS reader apps can
auto-detect feeds on a site by checking for an alternate link with type
"application/rss+xml" in the <head> section of your web page, similar to this:
Live Bookmarks for my feed fail to load in Firefox.
If
your feed works in some RSS readers like NetNewsWire or Safari, but you
see a "Live Bookmark feed failed to load" message in Firefox, this is
because the items in your feed do not have links. Firefox needs a link
to give the user somewhere to go when they select the Live Bookmark.
To add a link to your items, enter an http:// web address in the Article Link field for each item.
If you do not have a specific link for each item, use your site's URL.
