tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97432952011-04-22T04:54:00.014+08:00and other deluded brain matter.Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1132660035753168852005-11-22T19:42:00.000+08:002005-11-22T19:52:48.700+08:00

Web 2.0: Some people say it's just hype, others say its the new internet gold rush, whatever it is, it's arguably virtually non-existent in Malaysia. With most Malaysian websites still adopting that old, so-last-millenium, "web portal" look and concept (and not to mention those ugly government websites), I wonder when will we ever move on to the next generation of the web. Here, I list down some

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1128617357240759892005-10-07T00:49:00.000+08:002005-10-07T01:09:05.916+08:00

So finally Ramadhan 2005 AD / 1426 AH is here. I would like to take this opportunity to say have a nice Ramadhan to all muslims in the whole world, hope you'll have a happy and blessed fasting month. To celebrate this month, I am going to release a few special Ramadhan web projects. The first is solat.xml. A simple web service API and an XML-based language used to represent and syndicate solat /

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1124079231279663412005-08-15T12:13:00.000+08:002005-08-15T12:32:20.283+08:00

Via Global Voices → Rantings of a Sandmonkey, a weblogger from Eygpt who claims to be extremely cynical, snarky, pro-US, secular, libertarian, [and] disgruntled. Not sure whether he's being sarcastic or what. PC games with Islamic themes. Some of it, to be honest are quite ridiculous in a funny sort of way. For example, Ummah Defense I, a 2D scrolling space-shooter: It's the year 2114 and the

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1123444963946169612005-08-08T04:02:00.000+08:002005-08-08T04:24:55.410+08:00

Thought of sharing another round of my recently added bookmarks in del.icio.us. Today I found: How to learn a language for free online, typography ideas for blog headlines, more UMNO/NEP ruckus, when to buy an iPod, and "the end of Microsoft" AJAX overview. Free Online Language Courses: A huge list of links to sites providing free online language courses, from Abenaki to Latin to Urdu to Welsh

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1123297851130765212005-08-06T11:10:00.000+08:002005-08-06T11:11:42.813+08:00

I was going through my usual daily visit to CSS Beauty, a webdesign/css gallery showcasing CSS-based websites. And what do you know, two (or at least one) Malaysian-based site is on it's list. One is the web-hosting company Exabytes, which is quite good (sometimes) I might say, I had an account there once. The other is Idaman Suri, not sure if this really is a Malaysian, it could be Indonesian.

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1123208175866528972005-08-05T09:24:00.000+08:002005-08-06T10:03:43.010+08:00

Interesting site I found via digg: "We once had a link behind the image, to download Firefox. But they sold their soul, and we no longer recommend them." - Scroogle.org I hate to read really well-written and truthful-looking things that shake any part a long-held belief of mine. Before this it was Michael Crichton's State of Fear which changed my view on global warming, but then I reverted back

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1123033434631469172005-08-03T09:43:00.000+08:002005-08-03T09:46:39.476+08:00

Well, what do you know, this weblog has been in existence for more than a year now, although my actual 'blogging time' is probably only 9 months out of the 12. Therefore, I decided to give my weblog a little revamp and a bit of a re-introduction... So I spent the whole of last night updating my weblog's template. I'm beginning to appreciate the subtleties of Blogger's template system, it's quite

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1122009129761628422005-07-22T12:10:00.000+08:002005-08-03T08:25:01.433+08:00

This is my first post in 5 months. Just would like to share few developments, web links, etc. for anyone insterested. UNICEF Malaysia is conducting an online survey on teen attitudes towards drug use: UNICEF Malaysia needs your help. We're trying to reach out to young people to understand you better. We care about the choices you make in your life. And your reasons behind these choices - in

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1108768758266588062005-02-19T07:19:00.000+08:002005-08-03T06:31:53.283+08:00

Today, two things got confirmed. The first, global warming is unquestionably happening. No, really. A study by US scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography reveals a "clear" and "compelling evidence" of global warming and humans as the foremost cause: "The debate about whether there is a global warming signal now is over, at least for rational people," said Tim Barnett, of the Scripps

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1108507727498023662005-02-16T06:48:00.000+08:002005-08-03T06:30:03.166+08:00

From mozillaZine, "Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Beta Due This Summer": The beta will be available to users with Windows XP Service Pack 2. Previously Microsoft has said that Internet Explorer updates would only be delivered with Windows upgrades, leading many to anticipate that there would be no IE7 until the release of Longhorn next year. Therefore, Microsoft's announcement of a new IE

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1108468789463820112005-02-15T19:45:00.000+08:002005-08-03T08:25:59.143+08:00

I was bored and too lazy to do work so I made a PHP script that counts the number of occurences of "gloomy", "end-of-the-world-ish" words in Google News: World Gloominess as gathered by Google News. Another thing you can do is feed it your own URL, for example: http://zaim.frens.net/gloom/?url=http://www.petalingstreet.org will count the gloominess of PPS. Also, check out the gloomy words list

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1108328999910512802005-02-14T05:09:00.000+08:002005-08-03T06:24:44.016+08:00

A XUL runner that provides total structure/presentation/behaviour/localization separation. Obviously, structure (user interface) is implemented in XUL and presentation (UI look and feel) in CSS. Behaviour is implemented via either: JavaScript, Python or PHP (ok, maybe even VBScript). I'm not too familiar with localization tools (although I know how important it is). The runner is built upon 100%

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1105719421418354732005-01-15T01:13:00.000+08:002005-08-03T08:26:33.980+08:00

Just had to share... This is the guy America voted president Filed in: georgebush

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1105709800527834002005-01-14T21:13:00.000+08:002005-08-03T08:28:17.046+08:00

...to write a program, that is. And so I've written another nifty little blogging tool, this time in python. Python is one of those programming languages that sounds scary and hard to learn but actually isn't at all. So this program I wrote is called sms2blogger. What it does is that it checks an e-mail account for messages that corresponds to a certain format, parses the message, and posts the

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1105408469130954992005-01-11T09:51:00.000+08:002005-08-03T06:21:50.470+08:00

The tsunami was unquestionably a 100% geological natural disaster. Unlike global warming which would inevitably trace back to our own species, the tsunami was not in any means man made. However so, it came shockingly unexampled and unprecedented. What does this mean? Or is there any meaning at all? Along with it's superseding, albeit destructive waves, the tsunami left a far more lasting effect.

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1105306766586101902005-01-10T05:28:00.000+08:002005-08-03T06:20:44.220+08:00

It's 5:30 AM, I'll probably sleep around 7 in the morning and wake up at 2 or 3 in the evening. That's how it is everyday, my days are upside down. I need to get out of this house, that is the key. And to get out, I need a bicycle. Song of the moment: Pain Killer by Turin Brakes Filed in: turinbrakes music bicycle

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1104509944770071282005-01-01T01:04:00.000+08:002005-08-03T05:20:43.976+08:00

2004 was a very bad year. Bush got re-elected while Iraq crumbled into chaos, millions of people still starve, reality TV became more than reality and to top it off, an unprecedented natural disaster. I pray the new year will bring new hopes. I'm sleepy and wished I had better things to say. Maybe tomorrow. Just to announce that I have started a list of various donation drives going on currently

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1104144210788721792004-12-27T18:25:00.000+08:002005-08-03T05:16:34.940+08:00

UPDATE: Change of location to send in donations. 26th December was my birthday. On that day, I was at a family gathering in Broga, Selangor. Also on that day at around 7 a.m a 10 meter tsunami caused by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean hit 7 countries including Malaysia. To avoid blatant redundancy in my part, please go here or visit PPS for a list other blogs blogging about this. I'm writing

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103936914069715332004-12-25T09:02:00.000+08:002005-08-03T05:15:24.250+08:00

Finally I've been able to export all of my MT entries into Blogger. How, you ask? Well, I wrote a somewhat small PHP script that does just that. It's buggy and full of spaghetti code but at least it does it's job (even though rather badly). Some issues:Exported posts are automatically published (even though the 'publish' parameter on the blogger.newPost XML-RPC call is set to false)No titles for

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103750431776248722004-12-23T05:58:00.000+08:002005-08-03T06:18:11.940+08:00

As you can probably see, Parannoyed Delusions is now hosted under Blogger. Which is funny because previously I was using Movable Type. Some might see this as downgrading. But I have my reasons. My previous MT setup was hosted on a shared-hosting server with a certain web hosting company. I got that account for free, in exchange I was asked to be a moderator at one of their forums. They said this

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103935461639061082004-12-19T22:54:00.000+08:002005-08-06T09:31:04.233+08:00

Last week, on the 11th, I went for the YAWA 5th International Children's Conference on the Environment in Teluk Bahang, Penang. It was a great experience. For those uninitiated, YAWA is Yayasan Anak Warisan Alam, a non-profit, non-governmental organization that exist purely to instill a love of and care for the environment in young people. Check out their website, I helped design it. The theme

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103935460822777012004-12-18T18:07:00.000+08:002005-08-06T09:31:52.286+08:00

From The Storyteller's Very First Screenplay Exercise: Here is a photograph I took while I was in Chiengrai last week. Each one of us will see a different story in the picture. I'd like you to write, in TEN sentences or less, your version of what's happening here. The man limped for fourty miles nonstop through a chill morning and a hot afternoon. His legs ached, especially his left one. With

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103935460144468872004-12-17T06:25:00.000+08:002005-08-03T05:04:50.103+08:00

No, I'm not talking about the Palestinian conflict, or the southern Thailand issue, or the brutal and senseless assault on Sharifah Aini. I'm talking about Malay TV dramas. Watching them, it seems that the Malay psyche consists entirely of overtly sentimental values. These dramas seem to think that people will automatically react to the catastrophic and tragic slope of drama. Either that or

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103935459364556342004-12-01T19:44:00.000+08:002005-08-03T06:16:54.640+08:00

Altough this guy, Mordechai Vanuu has already come out in the open years ago, only recently I learnt of his 'crusade'. While the Untited States "spread democracy" and "prevent" nuclear proliferation in the Middle East, one single country there has time and again successfully evade the scopes of U.S. radar. This country is, of course, Israel. Mordechai Vannu is the former Israeli nuclear

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103935458524566052004-10-10T04:10:00.000+08:002005-08-03T05:00:13.380+08:00

I discovered Firefox about a year ago and now I can't live without it. If you're still using Internet Explorer, I am giving you an ultimatum, stop it and start using Firefox now! Just kidding. Download Firefox here: getfirefox.com. You may also read on that page a list of reasons why you should start using Firefox. Only recently I've stumbled upon spreadfirefox.com, a Firefox marketing/

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103935380469005212004-07-07T11:18:00.000+08:002005-08-03T06:15:48.686+08:00

The internet is shit - read this website and change the way you look at the interent, the world wide web and technology forever. (Or not.) 4 of 11The internet is not the sole basis upon which you can determine existence. It sounds simple but people are starting to forget. If it doesn't have a website, that doesn't make something low quality. If you can't Google your blind date, that doesn't make

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103935379889171992004-06-15T10:20:00.000+08:002005-08-03T04:55:16.666+08:00

Yahoo! Mail is now providing another 196 extra megabytes for their users. As if that's not enough, allowed attachment size is now notched up to 10 megs. As of this writing, the Yahoo! Mail main page still hasn't changed "4MB" to "100MB"... plus, logging in and using Yahoo! Mail, some teething problems emerge (site CSS suddenly disappears, reverting to and from the new and old version, etc.)

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103935379098534202004-06-12T03:49:00.000+08:002005-08-06T09:39:00.496+08:00

Today I went to the movies to watch Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban with my mother, sister and brother. I'm not a big fan of Harry but the movie was great - the first sucked, the second was good and the third is just great. The director did a great job, in my book. I'm pleasantly suprised to the fact the screenwriter, Steven Kloves is also the writer and director of one of my favourite

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103935378289180632004-05-16T16:13:00.000+08:002005-08-06T09:40:06.786+08:00

zlah.com is a place where I host my personal web projects. I find myself spending more time building, updating and taking care of this site rather than doing other work that are more obligatory in nature. Such work include undertakings passed via my self-appointed athenaeum (e.g. my college), my participation in the socio-economic macrocosm (e.g. my freelance design/animation/development work)

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103935377716542452004-04-08T03:54:00.000+08:002005-08-02T14:18:38.490+08:00

Today I am proposing a new diagramming tool to model conversations between people. I will be using a deriviation of UML's Activity and Sequence Diagram and will be referencing Gordon Pask's Conversation Theory. For those who are not familiar with software engineering or cybernetics, this exercise will not be fun and I recommend you not to read on. But if you are interested or think you might be,

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103935376232015932004-04-06T11:31:00.000+08:002005-08-02T14:16:22.783+08:00

Google will be launching an unbelievable free webmail service, called Gmail. Why unbelievable? Because they claim that it will have 1000 megabytes or 1 gigabyte of space (that's 500 times more than hotmail!). According to Google, "the backbone of Gmail is a powerful Google search engine that quickly recalls any message an account owner has ever sent or received". I'm not quite sure what that

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103935375623496542004-04-04T19:23:00.000+08:002005-08-06T09:41:42.193+08:00

I've been reading a lot of blogs and articles such as this and this and more I can't remember where. I say the first Malaysian National Service is a total and absolute disaster. Don't give me excuses like it's just the first one, or it's only a trial. The point is that they should've been more prepared, should've done a little more research like reviewing other countries' equivalents, et cetera.

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103935375005465632004-04-04T05:09:00.000+08:002005-08-02T14:15:42.256+08:00

Read this: MyKad Revisited - it's time to really wake up, people. I have been thinking about this thing for quite some time. MyKad is a scam by the government, it is the ultimate 'Big Brother' supertool designed to invade your privacy. I don't want to sound 'paranoid' or 'deluded', but think about it. MyKad will be the future. It will (eventually) hold every single information about someone,

Zaim Abu Bakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743295.post-1103935376822923942004-04-04T00:16:00.000+08:002005-08-02T14:14:52.230+08:00

Interesting, Google can also be reached through this cryptic domain: www.466453.com. Well, actually, 466453 is 'Google' when typed using a mobile phone keypad. And www.466453.com is Google's WAP site for 'Google Number Searches' (e.g. typing your searches using numbers in the keypad). Other Google wireless features can be accessed here. I just love Google! Filed in: google wireless mobile

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