Established in 2007, Dan's monotonous ramblings on everything from web development to travel to iGaming. Don't forget to leave your comments!
Written by an alienated British serial expat web monkey currently working in the Philippines in the iGaming business.
Dan calls South East Asia home, having lived and worked in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.
Topics posted include travel, wildlife, road trips, web design, Drupal, development & programming, Agile project management and plenty more. Aside from this blog you can head over to dangibas.co.uk to read more about Dan if you have nothing better to do.
It's a well known public scam in Malaysia of epic proportions but surprisingly no one seems to care enough to actually do anything about it. Perhaps it's because the artificial market the government created and maintains is something...
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I can thank my three year old daughter Miya for this blog topic today. Miya has been doing UAT on one of my mobile HTML 5 games and her top user story complaint story is that she get's stuck when she accidentally zooms the page in too...
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This year is one of the most important times in the making of Malaysia's history and could prove to be just as big a year for change as Merdeka in 1957. In fact, if Malaysia can for the first time ever in it's history manage to elect...
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Facebook is the supermarket of the Internet
In much the same way that supermarkets, hypermarkets, superstores or whatever you want to call them have killed off smaller, often independent shops or stores, Facebook is doing the same to...
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Countdown To Drupal Camp Manila 2013
Date: Saturday 16th February 2013
Venue: Microsoft 8F 6750 Ayala Office Tower, Ayala Avenue, Makati City
More Info: Official Site
HYGEN is a proud sponsor of Drupal Camp Manila 2013!
Having a...
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The Philippine Airforce (PAF) museum is located next to the terminal 3 arrivals and departures at Manila airport. When I went on a Sunday, entry was free. Once you enter the main display hangar you are greeted by "the shark of zambales"...
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This blog post details some methods I use to prevent automated spam bots such as XRumer and it's evil friends from registering spam accounts on Drupal based websites. As yet I've not shared my completed module with the Drupal...
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There isn't much to do in Manila city itself other than going around endless bland malls that mostly all look and offer much of the same things. Hence it's highly likely that visitors, tourists visiting the Philippines and locals...
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Onboard for the ride on this road trip last November 2012 I had Mike Mechanics (of http://mikesholidays.com fame) and famous Chindian (Chinese Indian) KL taxi driver Roberto Carlos both from Desa Pandan (read Desa Pondan LOL!), Kuala...
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There is something like a gold rush going on right now in web development to provide so called Rich Snippets such as Microdata for Google's (among many others) consumption. Google is really driving this by pushing the competition by...
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Photo Above: The Famous Shields Ferry!
A few years ago I did a short stint of work for a digital agency in North Shields. If you are reading this from some warm and sunny part of the world you may not know that North Shields is the...
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Many people are now guilty of not reading terms and conditions on web sites and privacy policies. We simply use too many websites every day to be able to read every policy. It's totally impractical. My prediction is that in future NGO'...
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This baby gecko lives in my living room behind the skirting board. At just 5 or 6cm long it's known as "the baby dinosaur"! I'm very surprised it's here because I'm on a high floor in the middle of the business district. It's the...
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Taal volcano is a very popular destination for people visiting the Philippines but when we went there we could only see locals. Perhaps all the tourists go on buses via a different route! Anyway, for a road trip this was a nice and...
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Having already been to the Pinatubo and Taal volcanoes in Luzon, Philippines on previous road trips, the next target just had to be Mount Mayon - the most famous classic cone shaped volcano and one of three major volcanoes in Luzon....
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Photo Above: A photo taken when leaving CoCo Beach by boat at Puerto Galera, Philippines.
Being an expat living in Makati (Manila, Philippines) people often ask me "how is life in the Philippines?". Let's be honest here, if you were...
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While exploring the hills behind the Seac Pai Van Park in Macau, China I spotted plenty of Blue Tailed Skinks (Cryptoblepharus egeriae). It's great to know there is wildlife there! Almost everything that moves is on the menu in China so...
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A car lighting workshop sprang up in the outdoor car park at Ampang Point and I just had to give it a try! My car now has fancy LED's all around and in the head lights :) Other modifications below are the new Kenwood ICE which has a...
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I went on a road trip to see Dumbo in Hat Yai, Thailand last weekend with Miya and Mike Mechanics!
I've driven up to Hat Yai more times than I can remember and in my old passport, which ran out of space for new stamps I counted over 30...
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