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As long as I can remember, Penang’s annual state fair (Pesta Pulau Pinang) took place at the end of the year in Sungai Nibong, and I think I’ve only been there three or four times despite living here for most of my life. This year marks the final time it will be held in the […]
Earlier in the month, I played through Return To Monkey Island on my new iMac. This was the first video game I’ve played in years, so this shows how much of a non-gamer I am that I’d use a Mac to play one. Some spoilers for the Monkey Island games follow, so if you don’t […]
ARM is a fun architecture to play with, and it’d be nice to get a full-fledged ARM desktop, and only one is readily available where I live: Macs with Apple Silicon. So I bit the bullet and got myself an iMac M4. Also, who knows what prices will be like next year, so I got […]
I was a little kid when I first went to Taiping Lake Gardens in the state of Perak, back in the 1980’s. And that was my one and only trip to Taiping until last year, when I visited it again. And again a few weeks ago. And again today, all on a whim. It’s literally […]
Yesterday, at 12:06 p.m. EDT, NASA successfully launched the Europa Clipper mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After the launch was delayed because of the hurricane Milton in Florida, we had clear skies over Meritt Island yesterday and it was go time. Clipper’s mission is to embark on a five year plus trek across […]
After decades of hard work from the Realtime Linux developers, it is finally up for merging, fully and officially, into the mainline tree. With the forthcoming release of the 6.12 kernel we can finally say Linux is officially a Realtime OS. Perhaps the next Linux-based space vehicle can use it, who knows. At the Open […]
Chendol, or cendol, is a pandan-flavored jelly-like dessert served with ice and condiments, similar to ais kachang. There’s a popular vendor here in Penang on a street cart at Lebuh Keng Kwee just down the street from the laksa place. They’re called Penang Road Famous Teochew Chendul and Ice Kacang, and their cart is underneath […]
All good things come to an end, sadly. My favorite radio show, Thistle and Shamrock, hosted by the incredible Fiona Ritchie, is going to bid farewell to us in September. After 41 years on air, the show is going to end. I don’t even remember when I discovered the program, but it was sometime when […]
A recent paper published in Nature reveals that NASA’s Juno probe has confirmed evidence of active volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io. The probe’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) revealed that the surface of the Jovian moon is covered by lakes of lava. The data was collected during Juno’s flyby of Io in December last year, […]
A recent Mastodon post by Didier Malanfant lamented the death of the open web thanks to walled gardens such as Discord (which was called out specifically). I do concur with the statement, but after thinking about it a bit more, I wondered just how long our open web records last. A forum can disappear into […]