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It's been quite a long while since Kepompom.Net was online. Let's see now.. If I'm not mistaken, it's been offline for more than a year now. It was once a place where local malaysians could open up a blog space for free.
We had to to shut it down back then as the server was needed in another project. Since then, it was never brought back online. Now, the domain is expiring soon.. in about 60 days. I'll be renewing it in a while - it's just USD8.50 anyway... In the meantime, figuring out a suitable application to run on the domain space. Any ideas?
Hahaha.. this particular sticker on the back of a Proton Waja really cracked me up. The sticker said "Jika cara saya memandu merbahaya, sila dail 1-800-GIMAMPUS". Translated, it means "If my driving is dangerous, please dial 1-800-GO DIE". The driver of the car - a sweet, innocent looking young lady. Hahaha.
Here in Malaysia, you get to pick the number of your car's license plate, at a cost. The cost, depends on the number you're going after. The nicer the number, the higher the price is. For single digit numbers, you'd probably have to go through a bidding process of some sort. The number will go to the highest bidder. Now, I may be wrong about this, for I have no personal experience in this. I've never attempted to buy a license plate number before.
A normal license plate in Malaysia, currently, consists of at most 3 alphabets and 4 digits (eg: JCJ 5858, WBH 4971, etc.). Then there are those special plates such as Tiara 947, Proton 123, etc. Occasionally, there are the likes of XOIC 234, XIII NAM 221, etc. for those special events which happened here in Malaysia. Now, what are the chances that you'd get a license plate to your liking if you're not going to fork out the extra mulahs for it? Lets see now. Single and double digits are certainly out of the question. What about three digits? Most likely out too (not too sure about this, though). So, you're left with just four digit numbers then. That's like from 1000 to 9999. Between the two, there are also quite a few which are also reserved for the bidders. Sequential numbers like 8888, 2828, 7777, etc are also probably taken by some bidders.
So, what's left? If I were to bid for a license plate number, I'd go for 1212, 7112, or 7175 (my beloved would go for 1104, or 7904) for some personal reasons. What are my chances of getting any of these numbers? Slim would be an understatement, I'd say. The chances of me getting them numbers is like slightly less than 1 in 10,000. However, would I pay RM200 (I was told, that's the amount I'd have to pay to make a license plate number booking) to get any one of the numbers? I'm afraid not. They're just numbers. They don't mean a thing.
Well, today must be my lucky day (if you want to call it that). Yes, I've just registered my brand new Hyundai Accent earlier today. For those interested, here's what the new ride looks like: (different color and body kit, though) 
Guess what I got for my license plate? The new car is registered with BHR 7112. Imagine my surprise when I received the road tax sticker. I was like smiling from ear to ear. While I was trying to hold my composure in front of the JPJ counter, my darling dearest was down at the number booking section looking for her number and contemplating to send in a booking. Boy, she was certainly surprised when I showed her the registration number I received.
Hehe. All I can say, Alhamdulillah.
There seems to be a race between Microsoft and Google to come up with a web based news aggregator. Microsoft is currently working on something called Start.com. Google is working on their Personalised Google. Both are basically a one stop page for all your rss and atoms news syndications. Here's what Start.com looks like (my start.com, that is).
I kinda like the way MS is doing this. In Start.com, clicking the title of the news item expands the news right on the current page. It also shows the entire content of the news item. Not just a few lines. This way, I don't have to be redirected to the actual web page to read the entire story of a news item. I also like the way the selected feed is displayed as a layer on top of the page. It makes for easier reading of the selected news item. Cool.. love the shadow too.
Google's offering is currently still a little bit behind in terms of features. As of this writing, it offers only a limited number of functionality. As a matter of fact, there's no support for personal news feeds - you can't add your own feed into the site. The feed source they provide are also limited. Only 5 news feeds are made available to users - BBC News, New York Times, Google News, Slashdot, and Wired.
This is what Google Homepage looks like:
Both sites support drag and drop within the web page. You can, to some extent, personalize the way the page looks in your web browser. However, for Start.com, the drag and drop thingy is still not working in Firefox. Basically, for now, start.com is not fully supported in non IE based browsers. Google's work fine in both IE and Firefox.
Start.com does not require any login, while Google requires users to sign up (you can use your GMail user id if you already have one).
Personally, I'd prefer to use Start.com right now. Google's site is just way too limited in functionallity currently to impress me. However, I'd stick to the likes of Bloglines for news aggregation functionality. MS and Google will have to really beef up their offerings if they want to compete against the existing Web based News Aggregator like Bloglines. However, I do believe that both will turn out to be great when the final release is launched.
Start.com is currently in its so called version 3. The older versions are still available, however. If you want to test drive all the Start.com versions, head on over to Start.com V1, Start.com V2, and Start.com.
Thinking about moving to DasBlog. As a matter of fact, I've got DasBlog installed in the machine I'm running at home. Just toying around with it. Getting the feel of how it runs. So far, I think I like it.
What I like the most about DasBlog is it's storage system. No database is required. It uses XML as it's storage. One less software to install. 
Here's an overview from Dasblog's website.
DasBlog 1.0 is a weblog engine derived from Chris Anderson's BlogX and built on top of ASP.NET and the Microsoft .NET Framework. DasBlog is a simple content management and content presentation system that allows simple, chronological and categorized management of usually small notes and articles. To allow aggreation of the content using common tools, the system supports the RSS 2.0 format, which can be generated for several types of views, including the "front page", per-category views, and a view for the comments on every article.
Moving from blogger to DasBlog would require an export of some sort from Blogger database to DasBlog. Thus, a Google was performed. The google result did not dissapoint. The first two results provided me with the solution I'd require to move my blog from Blogger to DasBlog. The first is a template mod to redirect all hits on blogger to the actual site automatically. The other is the export method and utility. Will have to try it out first though, before I actually do the blog migration.
Actually, wayyyyy before I begin this exercise, will need to bring up the Kodeexii.Net server first. Heheh.. Think it's almost renewal time too. Is my salary in yet? Hmmmmmm
NOTTTTTT... It's just too far away from where I am right now. It'll take me about 20 hours of flight time. Maybe more. I would love to be there, though. Any sponsors? heheh..
I guess, the best I can do is to catch it via the Tech Ed 2005 Webcast Series then. Provided that I haven't gone to bed, they are like 18 hours behind. By the time they start webcasting, it's almost midnite here. Bummer. Will try to catch at least one of the webcast though. Just hope the Streamyx line is up to it.
The next bet in getting some info from Tech Ed would be to check out the Tech-Ed Bloggers site. Think I'll head on over there to check it out a bit. Hmmmm... way too many postings already. Perhaps I'll just subscribe to the feed instead. There are 6 feeds altogether. Which should I subsribe to?
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AMD is also streaming a live feed from their exhibition booth in Tech-Ed. Check it out here. I haven't seen it yet as it's not up right now. Will check it out later.
Just checked out Tech-Ed 2005 Worldwide, didn't see Malaysia listed in there. Does this mean there is no Tech-Ed in town this year? MS Malaysia.. Why is this so? Awwww.. come on.. I missed it last year. Thought of going to this year's Tech-Ed. 5 Tech-Ed's in India alone? Can't one of those be transfered here instead?
Time to feed on some blog feeds.. heheh
I can't recall when I enrolled into Google Adsense. As a matter of fact, I've just realized that this site's Adsense script was missing. So, I went over to Adsense to check out how my account is doing? How much have I made since my enrollment? Check it out.. heheh.
Interesting.. I've actually just earned a mere $0.39. That's from two web sites. Oh well.. So, I've added Google Ads back into the site.. Let's see what happens now.
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