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Entries from September 2007

KNN, it is Mid-Autumn Festival, not stupid Pesta Tunglong

September 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Nobody in Malaysia expect the university student able to voice up their mind. Worst, we see Malaysia university using as a political tools to subvert ALMOST for BN political correct, whether intellect,academic and even culture.

Guess what, enter the month of September, PJ and KL lamp post are hanging the banner of Pesta Tunglong (AKA, Lantern Festival [...]

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Tags: Food for thoughts

Wordpress 2.2 Unicode problem: diagnosis and fixes

September 24th, 2007 · No Comments

I found the culprits that cause scramble Unicode in Wordpress 2.2. when displaying Asian character.

In short, it is NOT the fault of Wordpress code. It is something to do with transition problem cause by hosting provider.

Quick and dirty fix

Open wp-config.php and look for the following line.

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ‘’);

Either delete the two line(not recommended) [...]

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Tags: Techtips

Wordpress upgrade : Staging Wordpress installation for Unicode site

September 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

I burned a few nerve upgrading to Wordpress 2.2.2. The unicode character seems all jumbled up after upgrade to the new wordpress.

Since the computing world transition of bytes character set to Unicode are still on the way, I am not surprised that developer overlook the problem. Before year 2003, dealing with the international character [...]

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Tags: Food for thoughts · Techtips

RM6 billions energy waste and LKY natural gas import bullshit

September 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

Getting hint by Desi , I have done a google search on Petronas and its gas purchase, and guess what I found.

Malaysia’s Petronas to sell LNG to Japan’s Shikoku reuter news date : Fri May 11, 2007

Malaysian state oil and gas firm Petronas [PETR.UL] will sell up to 420,000 tonnes of liquefied natural gas [...]

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Tags: Food for thoughts

Money burned, people must change their lifestyle AGAIN!

September 19th, 2007 · No Comments

When Petronas test the water by giving the hint of increasing fuel subsidiaries “burden”, we know it is matter of time the country announce another round of fuel hikes.

Howsy spot the bucks passing statement : change your lifestyle.

Actually, Malaysia are “slightly” better than the fuel rationing issue in Iran . Thanks to the [...]

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Tags: Food for thoughts · Funs