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Oh well… the battle was fun while it lasted, though it didn’t carry on for too long. Upon arriving in Beijing, China, I was presented with an Internet connection in my hotel that totally blocked YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Blogspot and many other sites (I wrote about it here). Sure I had heard about the issues before arriving in China, and I was determined to get around them. The solution that several sites stated was to sign up for a VPN … Continue reading
And so… I have arrived in China, and have already been warmly welcomed by The Great China Firewall. Facebook, nope. Twitter, nope. Gmail, nope. Blogspot, nope. And many other websites – all NOPE! Only Foursquare and LinkedIn work, among a few other international social media websites. It’s no wonder the local Facebook / Twitter clones known as Weibo and RenRen are thriving. I’ve declared war on it and will endeavour to get around it. When I do, I’ll share more … Continue reading
It’s Chinese New Year and I’m currently enroute from my home in Kuala Lumpur to my wife’s state – historical Malacca. She’s driving currently as I’m “unwell”, what with an annoying flu. Anyhow, I decided to try out the YES dongle that I was given during their launch and see how it fares while on the go. Thus far, it’s been a pretty amazing ride and I’m about to unleash this blog post while traveling at 110km/h while dodging accident … Continue reading
The Internet landscape in Malaysia has long been dominated by our national telco, TM but in recent years, competition has picked up with more players emerging on the field. Aside from the 3G spectrum that is dished out by our regular mobile companies, a 2.3GHz WiMax spectrum was awarded to 4 non-Telco companies in 2006, Bizsurf (YTL), Packet One Networks (P1), Asiaspace Dotcom (Amax) and Redtone (REDtone WiMAX). Four years on, I received the invite to attend the prestigious launch … Continue reading
On the street I saw a small girl cold and shivering in a thin dress, with little hope of a decent meal. I became angry and said to God; “Why did you permit this? Why don’t you do something about it?” For a while God said nothing. That night he replied, quite suddenly: “I certainly did something about it. I made you.” For many months, I have been silently following a website that is interestingly called InvisiblePeople.tv. It is an … Continue reading
Interestingly, when I was trying to update my blog and upload images, I was posed with an alert that stated “Sorry, the web site you are accessing has been closed by Royal Thai Police due to inappropriateness such as pornography, gambling or contain any information which is deemed to violate national security.” Sure, I was uploading a porn photo, or trying to bet on my favourite Thai horse, or I was planning to assassinate the king. All I was doing … Continue reading
We have had Streamyx broadband in Malaysia since the year 2000 and it was a really big deal back then. After all, I upgraded from a 56Kbps modem to the ultra-blazing fast 384Kbps always on Internet. Fast forward to 2009, our minimum packages offered by Telekom Malaysia (oftentimes referred to as Terrorkom Malaysia) are now errr, still 384Kbps, while the fastest are 4.0Mbps. Wayyy to go, Malaysia. Now, let’s look at our neighbours, Singapore. A quick check on Starhub shows … Continue reading
Today, The Star Online hosted a “live” interview with Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili, Science, Technology and Innovation minister of Malaysia via an IRC like interface where viewers could read moderated questions posed to him and his replies.The topic was The Internet: Is speed all that matters? I was interested to see what he would have to say and how live the interview would be. I was deeply unimpressed as there was really no form of active interaction between the audience … Continue reading
Today is a sad day for Malaysia. We are currently witnessing a deterioration of our government on many fronts, and this has now extended to the freedom that we Malaysians enjoy on the Internet. The problem – the government now selectively limits what site we are allowed to access and directs the Internet service providers (ISPs) to abide accordingly. As of the 27th of August 2008, access to a prominent and controversial blogger’s website – Raja Petra’s Malaysia-Today.net was blocked. … Continue reading
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