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Thaipusam

All Malaysia.info: Festivals and Celebrations: Thaipusam : … Several hundred devotees spear their cheeks with long, shiny steel rods – often a metre long – and pierce their chests and backs with small, hook-like needles in penance….

…it is believed that any devotee carrying a kavadi in fulfilment of vows will have their wishes granted…

sttemple.com: Thaipusam 2005 (will be held on Tuesday, 25th January 2005)

The links to the images are incorrect…

Update: See Handling of forward and backward slash in URL. In the sttemple URL, backslash has been used instead of slash (forward) and this usage is rendered by IE but not by Firefox. Have written to sttemple.com to fix the issue. In the meantime… it is quite easy to find out the correct link to the images… Link to the image folder removed upon request…

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BHP Billiton

BHP Billiton is the world’s largest diversified resources company.

Technical Facts : “…This site adheres to web standards, which are technologies carefully designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of any documents published on the Web…”

TopStyle 3.0 is one of the software used to build the site !

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please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world

Last month, a worldwide survey was conducted by the UN — The only question asked was: “Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?”

The survey was a HUGE failure.

In Africa they didn’t know what “food” meant.

In Eastern Europe they didn’t know what “honest” meant.

In Western Europe they didn’t know what “shortage” meant.

In China they didn’t know what “opinion” meant.

In the Middle East they didn’t know what “solution” meant.

In South America they didn’t know what “please” meant.

And in the USA they didn’t know what “the rest of the world” meant.

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Software

Project Honey Pot

Project Honey Pot : …help stop spammers before they even get your address…

Installed !

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Rolling with Ruby on Rails

ONLamp.com: Rolling with Ruby on Rails

(via Loud Thinking: Rails tutorial on O’Reilly’s ONLamp)

Done! > Definitely cool !

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Hardware

The Best Vacuum Cleaner

We recently bought a Philips Vacuum Cleaner Specialist Control FC 9130. We also considered the Dyson but it looked fragile…

If only Jeremy posted Dyson DC14 Animal: The Best Vacuum Ever a few weeks ago…

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Make your Ta-da list today (Loud Thinking)

Make your Ta-da list today (Loud Thinking) : …Todo lists have long been one of the favorite features in Basecamp, so we thought it would be a nice experiment to share that particular feature with the world at large. Free of charge. And Ta-da List was born!…

Where is the link to “Make this list my home page” ?

Very useful and very usable 🙂

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Festivals

Selamat Hari Raya Haji

allmalaysia.info: Selamat : Many Malaysian goodwill greetings begin with the Malay word “Selamat” which usually takes on the meaning of “wishing you a safe…”, and corresponds to the English word “good” as used in “Good Morning” or “Good Day”.

KL Lifestyle: Hari Raya Haji

Apart from Hari Raya Puasa or Aidilfitri, the festival celebrated by Muslims all over the world on a grand scale is Hari Raya Haji or Hari Raya Aidil Ahda, which means the festival of pilgrimage. Hari Raya Haji is celebrated about 2 months after Aidilfitri and this time it falls on January 21, 2005.

Hari Raya Haji marks the end of the Haj pilgrimage period (about 2 weeks) to Mecca and is celebrated by all Muslims to honour the pilgrims who have completed their Haj to mecca. It is also a day when Muslims reaffirm their faith in God, giving thanks for the many blessings that He has bequeathed to them.

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