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August 31st, 2006

Happy Independence Day My Beloved Country

Today Malaysia celebrates it’s 49th years of independence from British1 rule. I say Woohoo or translated into Malay…Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka! :)

No more stealing of our natural resources to feed the evil empire. The evil regime who puts people like Gandhi in prison and labeled our freedom fighters as terrorists and plant the seeds of destruction in the Middle East which is still raging right now.

To that I stand up and proudly sing our national anthem :-

Negaraku, tanah tumpahnya darahku,
Rakyat hidup, bersatu dan maju,
Rahmat bahagia, Tuhan kurniakan,
Raja kita, selamat bertakhta.
Rahmat bahagia, Tuhan kurniakan,
Raja kita, selamat bertakhta.
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Malaysia, I’m so grateful to be living in this beautiful country… and may God protect this country from evil which is currently raping, killing, torturing and pillaging in other far away lands.

  1. B******s! [back]
  2. Oh, My Motherland,
    The Land where my life began,
    Where people live in harmony and prosperity,
    With God-given blessings of happiness,
    Our King reigns in peace.
    With God-given blessings of happiness,
    Our King reigns in peace
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August 31st, 2006

Manufacturing Consent Using Faux News

The trouble with watching news on TV is that we are often not given the historical context of the issue being discussed this often distorts the perception of the viewers on the root causes of that particular issue. This snippet from the recent Israel-Lebanon conflict illustrates my point: -

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August 27th, 2006

WordPress Plugins I Use

A few people have asked me about WP plugins that I use for this website. Well here it is taken directly from my ‘Plugin Management’ page with some slight editing :-

Plugin

Version

Description

Ad Rotator

1.0

Rotates Ads randomly from a specified text file By Angsuman Chakraborty.

Adsense-Deluxe

0.7

Place Google AdSense ads in your WordPress Posts. Requires WordPress 1.5 or higer. For complete usage and configuration click on AdsenseDeluxe under the “Options” menu. By Acme Technologies.

Akismet

1.12

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web serivce to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use this service. You can review the spam it catches under “Manage” and it automatically deletes old spam after 15 days. Hat tip: Michael Hampton and Chris J. Davis for help with the plugin. By Matt Mullenweg.

Code Auto Escape

2.0

Automatically escape code within <code>…</code> tag By Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo.

FAlbum

0.5.6

A plugin for displaying your Flickr photosets and photos in a gallery format on your Wordpress site. By Elijah Cornell.

Dara’s Flickr Tags

1.0a

This plugin, creates an image link to a flickr slideshow based off key word(s). By Dara Pressley .

Footnotes

0.1 (Beta)

Allows a user to easily add footnotes to a post. By Simon Elvery.

Geo

1.0

Attaches geographic coordinate information to posts. Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Copyright 2004 Owen Winkler. By Owen Winkler.

Gravatar

1.1

This plugin allows you to generate a gravatar URL complete with rating, size, default, and border options. See the documentation for syntax and usage. By Tom Werner .

Recent Comments List

2.3

This plugin will add a list of the most frequent comments posted to your blog. They are gathered in descending order (newest at the top), but then group them together by post title, so that comments from the same post are listed together. The list items will be links to the comments, and will contain the name of the commenter. Derived from the “Top/Recent Commenters” plugin by Scott Reilly (http://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/) By Jared Bangs.

Live Comment Preview

1.7

Activate to supply users with a live comment preview. Use the function <?php live_preview() ?> to display the live preview in a different location. By Jeff Minard & Iacovos Constantinou .

Feedburner Feed Replacement

1.0

Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while creating a randomized feed for Feedburner to pull from. By Steve Smith .

Page Links To

1.1

Allows you to set a “links_to” meta key with a URI value that will be be used when listing WP pages. Good for setting up navigational links to non-WP sections of your By .

Google Sitemaps

2.7

This generator will create a Google compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. By Arne Brachhold .

SitemapView

0.6

Import Googles sitemap.xml for a list af all posts and sites. You can format with css. You can create sitemap.xml with a Plugin for WP: Arne Brachhold (+ extra options: Sidney ) By Frank Bueltge .

Subscribe To Comments

2.0.2

Allows readers to recieve notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry By Mark Jaquith and Jennifer (ScriptyGoddess).

Sidebar Widgets

1.0

Adds “Sidebar Widgets” panel under Presentation menu By Automattic, Inc..

WP-Amazon

1.3.2

WP-Amazon adds the ability to search and include items from Amazon to your entries. This plugin adds a button called “Amazon” on the post page. Make sure to configure the plugin before using. By Rich Manalang.

wp-cache

2.0.14

Very fast cache module. It’s composed of several modules, this plugin can configure and manage the whole system. Once enabled, go to “Options” and select “WP-Cache”. By Ricardo Galli Granada.

Contact Form ][ (WP-2.0)

2.0.6_wp-2.0

Contact Form ][ is a drop-in form that allows site visitors to contact you. It can be implemented easily (via QuickTags) within any post or page. This version is *specifically* for WordPress 2.0 only. Original code derived from Ryan Duff’s WP-ContactForm plugin. By Chip Cuccio.

WP-Cron

1.3

periodic execution of actions By Scott Merrill.

WordPress Database Backup

1.7

On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill.

WP Unformatted

With this enabled, you can add a custom field of ’sponge’ set to ‘1′ to a post to disable the auto formatting and a custom field of ’sandpaper’ set to ‘1′ to a post to disable the auto smart-quote conversion. By Alex King.

Click Counter

1.02

Adds a click counter to links in your posts (quick readme & manual) By Ozh .

Audio Player Wordpress plugin

1.2.3

Highly configurable single track mp3 player. By Martin Laine .