This is a warning to all those who read my website. Ransomware is on the prowl again. Make sure your backups are in good working order. I have personally encountered ransomware and, thankfully, my client, a sizable company, who was…
I would like to welcome John Mantis as a contributor to the website.
I would like to welcome Oliver Frost, a new contributor of articles to this website. Oliver will be contributing articles as and when he has time to write them. The range of topics he writes on will be quite broad.…
Despite its relatively small size, Sungai Pelek is home to an extraordinary artist, Lee Khip Chick. I have known Lee Khip Chick for nearly 45 years when we went to school together in Sekolah Mengah Kebangsaan Sungai Pelek. Lee Khip…
Most scientists are your typical mild mannered nerd – well, at least the ones I have met. They are usually more interested in whatever research they happen to be interested in and will happily spend their days thinking about metal-organic…
I am an avid watcher of documentary productions by the National Geographic Society. In Sydney, documentaries by the National Geographic Society are usually about the reproduction cycle of plants or animals, about travel, about marine ecosystems, etc etc. You know,…
I have now been back in my “kampung” (village) Sungai Pelek for about 6 days and it has been a real struggle to get new articles written. Sungai Pelek is a smallish town about 20 minutes south of the Kuala…
Well, folks, I am off to Malaysia for about 4 weeks. While I am there I will be keeping an eye out for any interesting local news. In the meantime, let me settle in and get a feel of what…
I have used Google for quite a few years now and I know of some simple tricks to search for items, e.g. adding the name of a country, say, .au to the end of google.com to look for items which…
Against my better judgement, I am putting up this post. A friend sent me this pic. He suggested that if I posted this pic on my website, I would “attract social comments” 🙂 My first impression was that while it…