Invest With Kiva

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world. By choosing a loan on Kiva, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the entrepreneur you’ve sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan money back.

More information on these business opportunities is available at Kiva.org.
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Get The Latest Sky News Headlines For Your Website

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

A new service from Sky News, possibly related to their developer competion is now available. You can add the latest news from Sky to a website using an HTML IFrame. Not the best way of doing things, but it works…

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Convert .doc to .pdf Online For Free

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

I have been doing a bit of work using Windows systems lately and they annoyingly lack so many features, especially when it comes to working with different file formats. It’s a real pain to work with old Bills software instead of good old Linux.
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Malaysian Association For The Blind (MAB) – Accessibility Workshop for the Visually Disabled

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

I attended a workshop yesterday as a "web accessibility guru" organized by Khairul Yusof of http://foss.org.my. The workshop was a great opportunity to learn from visually disabled computer users, in fact 90% of the session was on obtaining feedback on all different aspects of IT from the end users perspective.

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Chumphon, Thailand

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

I cut my trip to Cambodia short – in Chumphon, Thailand! I found what was just the perfect place to let the ashes go into the sea. Chumphon is about half way to Cambodia from Kuala Lumpur.

One of the islands off the coast of Chumphon.

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On The Road To Cambodia

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

I’m on my way up to Cambodia to disperse Lennox’s ashes at either of these two places -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor_Wat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonle_Sap

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Ruby Tool “flvtool2″ For Long Flash .flv Files

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

“FLVTool2 is a manipulation tool for Macromedia Flash Video files (FLV). It can calculate a lot of meta data, insert an onMetaData tag, cut FLV files, add cue points (onCuePoint), show the FLV structure and print meta data information in XML or YAML.”

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Tutorial: Rip A DVD Movie On Linux Then Convert It To A Flash Movie

Friday, January 4th, 2008

First get AcidRip:

sudo apt-get install acidrip

AcidRip will then be available under ”Multimedia” in the K Menu if you use KDE, GNOME will have placed a shortcut somewhere similar. AcidRip is a DVD ripping utility and we are going to use it to convert DVD data to an .avi movie file.

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Open / Convert Adobe .AI Files In Linux

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

I was unable to open or convert Adobe Illustrator files (*.ai) under Linux, using The Gimp and some other software too. Unable to find any answers online I came accross this service from Adobe…

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Carrefour Malaysia Displaying Tortured And Dead Animals

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Does anyone want a dead hamster, hedgehog, snake, rabbit, scorpion or sugar glider? Go to Carrefour Malaysia!

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