Ash Report

My sincerest wish to all Malaysians “Happy 50th Merdeka and may we continue to live peacefully together in the next 50 year”. There are many ways to lead a life but our Malaysian way seem to work so far and personally I believe will continue to work in the future. Not perfect, with many quirks and areas for improvement, but it is our way. Like the saying

Hujan emas di negeri orang,
Hujan batu di negeri sendiri….

How did you spend the Merdeka eve? I was among the hundred of thousands at Putrajaya & Cyberjaya who watched the spectacular free fireworks show by the Japanese team. Lots of cheers and smiling faces throughout…

People have emailed me for more tips on Firefox. I’d love to do that. But why don’t we look at Mr Fox’s little brother Thunderbird for once.

I’m always surprised that this free email client do not receive as much attention as Firefox. While I adore Firefox, discovering Thunderbird actually provided me a lot more relief. The mischief and trouble I’ve had with Outlook… But I wont harp on the pros and cons here, just a few interesting handy tips for Thunderbird.

Here we go…

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Funny huh… nobody called ‘It’ the World Wide Web anymore. It’s so prevalent that we just call it the Web or plain Net. Sixteen years and 48 hours ago, in a short post to the alt.hypertext newsgroup, Tim Berners-Lee revealed the first public web pages summarizing his World Wide Web project and thus the Web was born.

….The WWW browsers can access many existing data systems via existing protocols (FTP, NNTP) or via HTTP and a gateway. In this way, the critical mass of data
is quickly exceeded, and the increasing use of the system by readers and information suppliers encourage each other.

Making a web is as simple as writing a few SGML files which point to your existing data. Making it public involves running the FTP or HTTP daemon, and making at least one link into your web from another. In fact, any file available by anonymous FTP can be immediately linked into a web. The very small start-up effort is designed to allow small contributions. At the other end of
the scale, large information providers may provide an HTTP server with full text or keyword indexing.

That was clearly a scientist speaking. Steve Job or Bill Gates would have added a few more hyperboles into the description and would not have thought of giving it away for free.

Can you still remember the days when you discover the Web?

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In my earlier post .commers Gone Space 1999, I wondered where have all the poster boys of the .com age in Malaysia has gone to. It was thus a nice surprice to come across a memoirs of one such dot com guy.

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