Monthly Archives: December 2009

I have issues with Nik Roskiman

Through­out my brief life, I have debated with cyn­ics, smart-assess, smart-aleck-wannabes, and the reli­gious. I always find debat­ing with the reli­gious the most infuri­at­ing. Any­one who has done so prob­ably feels the same. You can come up with 100 reas­ons why you think they are wrong, with the sup­port­ing evid­ence, the stud­ies, and the logical

I Feel Geekier Already: trayer

Some­where between the prob­lems with get­ting Gnome-Do’s Pref­er­ence option to start (still unsuc­cess­ful), and my skip­ping of lunch (nor­mal), I decided to change my back­ground, which was when I dis­covered that trayer, the systray pro­gram in the bot­tom right corner of the screen­shot above, failed to change its back­ground from green to white. This meant

My Brand New Karmic Koala

Well, I have never been more pleased since mak­ing the trans­ition from Win­dows to Ubuntu Linux. Karmic Koala runs beau­ti­fully on my age­ing laptop, and with the onslaught of free util­it­ies such as Docky, Ubuntu Tweak, Shut­ter, Gwib­ber, and other excel­lent examples of the open-source com­munity at its best, my expect­a­tions have been raised for

The Climate Change Emails

I openly admit, I trust sci­entific con­sensus more than a mob of raging, pas­sion­ate, well-meaning indi­vidu­als. Because a mob of pas­sion­ate, well-meaning, but ulti­mately raging indi­vidu­als do not own PhDs in the fields they are cri­ti­ciz­ing. How­ever, they have there roles in soci­ety, mainly to think crit­ic­ally about the issues, and to place their trust

Merry Squidmas. The Proliferation of a Disaster.

Reli­gion is more often than less, the worst thing human­ity has ever inven­ted. What prob­ably star­ted out as a way to explain the liv­ing world accord­ing to obser­va­tion, evolved into an elab­or­ate sys­tem of indoc­trin­a­tion and abuse; where faith, belief in some­thing intrins­ic­ally without the sup­port of evid­ence, was a virtue.

Thank the Monkeys for Microblogging

I have recently got myself bogged down with work, and thus am unable to write the intel­lec­tu­ally incis­ive art­icles I would have writ­ten if I had spare time. It may not seem much, but a lot of read­ing went into some of the art­icles I have pos­ted, and I try to include as much cred­ible

SPCA-KK on the 20th of December

Last night, I atten­ded an SPCA-KK meet­ing on the society’s upcom­ing event on the 20th of Decem­ber, from 1100 to 2100 hours, at 1Borneo, the Lower Ground Floor of the Northe Atrium, beside the escal­ator. The theme of the event is “Help Us Help Them, They Deserve Bet­ter”. Swing around if you have the time,