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Hutan Bandar Revisited

Azmeen — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:49:30 +0000

I’ve shared pictures of Hutan Bandar three and a half years ago. Last Saturday, I joined a group of fellow Alpha JB members for a TT session (a Malaysian term for a meet-up, TT is an acronym for ‘Teh Tarik’; a popular Malaysian drink) held at the same location. Myself, along with Jazli, Sanik, Adie and [...]

Flashing At Pretty Ladies

Azmeen — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:42:04 +0000

One huge benefit of being a Sony Alpha DSLR user is that Sony organizes a lot of events for us. Workshops, seminars, shooting sessions; you name it, we have it… and for free! So pfftt to you Canikon peepz Anyway, I had the opportunity to join one of these workshops; Sony Alpha Flash Workshop, [...]

What Digital Photography Means To Me

Azmeen — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:28:26 +0000

I bought my Sony α200 on 6 June 2008. In about three weeks time it would be my first anniversary as a DSLR user. Since that purchase, I’ve bought a couple of lenses, a tripod, a protective filter and a strobe (flash unit). If you think that’s too much subsequent purchases for a hobby; believe [...]

Why You Should Turn That Great Idea Into A Product NOW!

Azmeen — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:52:33 +0000

I’ve been receiving unexpected surprises for the past few days. I’m not someone who likes surprises but for these, I make an exception. The first surprise is that I noticed my short URL generator has been receiving a lot of traffic for the past few weeks… and that’s only part of the surprise. shlnk.com has also [...]

Sultan Abu Bakar Mosque

Azmeen — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:54:17 +0000

Sultan Abu Bakar Mosque is one of the most famous landmarks in Johor Bahru. Constructed between 1892 and 1900 and named after the person who commissioned it, Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar, its architecture is influenced by Moorish design. It’s blue roofing and black tipped minarets grab the attention of many motorists plying Jalan Skudai. The mosque [...]

What’s The Big Fuss With Twitter?

Azmeen — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:06:43 +0000

These days, you can’t browse the web without finding a link to Twitter. It seems everyone has a Twitter account… yes, I do to. The only reason I registered for Twitter account is to find out what the fuss is about. For those of you who last got on the net in 2005, let’s just recap [...]

Oracle Bags Sun For $7.4 Billion

Azmeen — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:54:45 +0000

You got to hand it to Oracle, they have managed to do what IBM failed merely two weeks ago: Oracle has bought Sun for $7.4 billion. That’s just under six percent more than what IBM offered in the now collapsed talk. This deal is definitely an industry-defining event as mentioned in the linked BusinessWeek article. The [...]

VBA + MySQL: Checking For Duplicate Key Before Data Insertion

Azmeen — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:14:01 +0000

This article has been long overdue; so I apologize to newbie who orignally asked how to do duplicate key checking before inserting Excel data into a MySQL database. I got a few minutes of free time today, so I decided to draft a sample workbook that will demonstrate this process. You can download the sample workbook [...]

IBM To Buy Sun For $7 Billion? NOT!

Azmeen — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:01:10 +0000

Just found this interesting business news in NYT: IBM Will Reportedly Buy Sun For $7 Billion. The deal, if it goes through will undeniably make IBM the powerhouse in the server arena. It will also undeniably cause major headaches in streamlining the two companies’ most identifiable products. Both IBM and Sun have server grade processors in their [...]

TM Faces Submarine Cables Issues Again!

Azmeen — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:49:45 +0000

Whenever I feel that my Internet connection is acting up again, the next web page I load up will be TM’s news releases page. I suspected that the increasingly unreliable SMW submarine cables snapped again; was glad to find out that it’s not. Nevertheless, it’s still an equally disruptive circuit fault. Yet again, TM has demonstrated how [...]