After exploring Kuantan and Sungei Lembing we continued our personal Discover Malaysia trip to Genting Highlands Theme Park. After having seen the orginal a number of times it was obvious where Genting's inspiration came from (Wasn't there something with "flattery"). They have to practice with their website however. With NoScript active you don't see a thing. The theme park is divided into an indoor and an outdoor area (tribute to the weather here) with the indoor area actually containing a number of rides including a ferries wheel and a roller coaster. After the beach and nature in Kuantan that felt a bit creepy. But it operates well. SWMBO went - what Genting is all about - gambling and won the family dinner last night. One of my favorites are animal pictures. The body of a snake (a must have accessory over here) is muscle pure - quite a stretch target for my gym exercise.
Of course the main attraction of any theme park are the rides. Genting has a number of them: The Corkscrew, Space Shot, Sky Venture (a body flying tower, very cool, Flying Coaster, Snow World (the only way to see snow in the tropics) and more. All of them are pretty new and feature impressive structures.
However when you embark on a ride on the Cyclops you enjoy Malaysia's first roller coaster ever,
Happy Birthday Anthony and Ernest
Sun, Mar 14th 2010 5:35a Stephan H Wissel 10 years ago the biggest adventure of my life started. It is still on and I'm still learning.
Happy birthday Anthony and Ernest!
Being a geek dad we celebrate with the appropriate present and stuff to chill out afterwards. [read] Keywords:
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Broadband and web2.0 applications
Sun, Mar 14th 2010 4:33a Stephan H Wissel Singapore is one of the most wired companies in the world with a Broadband penetration exceeding 100% (Korea take that ). I recently switched to Starhub from SingTel on one of their midrange plans (not the alledged 100 MBPS one), so I was curious and headed over to SpeedTest to check how I'm doing. Locally I got 8.42 Mbps and overseas 5.37 (Boston), 4.76 (San Franscisco) and 5.3 (Texas) Mbps.
Should be ample power for any web based application isn't it? Not so fast. Just recall how most of [read] Keywords: lotus
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Boys and their toys VII
Sat, Mar 6th 2010 6:24a Stephan H. Wissel The good Movie Bag is loosing shape and SWMBO insists on replacement. SoI had a look at Varier: [read] Keywords:
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Address Dialog on stereoids
Sat, Feb 27th 2010 3:23p Stephan H Wissel Over the long live of Lotus Notes the address dialog has been a trusted, never changing compagnion:
Over the years it got some facelift like the ability to drag and drop or the ability to sort by Notes hierarchy, language or corporate hierarchy (anybody seen that?) or to look at details in yet another window. It works OK as long as the number of names is small and diverse. However once you enter cultures that are notoriously short of last names and sport large companies it gets tedious to pic [read] Keywords: lotus
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Quote collection
Sat, Feb 27th 2010 3:23p Stephan H Wissel A collection of quotes I like:
Thomas T. Nagle: Sustainable cost advantages are realized not by constant belt tightening,
but by the efficient use of resources
Edsger Dijkstra It is never enough to satisfy your own intellect (since it will be laid in your grave with you), but one must teach others, to use their mind.
The more one focuses on these two tasks, the faster one realized that they are the two sides of one coin:
Who teaches himself, discovers what can be taught
Antoine de Saint-Exup [read] Keywords: lotus
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JavaScript Closures
Sat, Feb 20th 2010 8:30a Stephan H Wissel XPages allow you to use JavaScript closures in both client and server side code. There are plenty explanations available, which seem to make them rather more mysterious. After looking at a lot of them I conclude: "JavaScript closures are like riding a bicycle: nearly impossible to explain, but obvious and natural once you get it". So here is my try, from a LotusScript perspective.
First step in the puzzle is the fact, that there is no difference in JavaScript between a function and a class. To [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Netgear support hell reloaded - Part 3 - Salvation
Tue, Feb 16th 2010 3:24a Stephan H Wissel Netgear's local support was incredible helpful (Thx Andrew Tan). It turned out the motherboard is fried and one of the disk behaves "interesting". The WD green drives look good on paper, but not so much online. Anyway Andrew was so kind to loan me a spare Netgear unit, so I could resync the faulty drive [read] Keywords: google
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Boys and their toys VI
Mon, Feb 15th 2010 4:24a Stephan H. Wissel It is a public holiday here in Singapore, so I can catch up with blog reading while the gentlemen are busy to collect hong bao (red packets). The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is on with a lot of new toys:
The Samsung I8520 Halo running on Android with an integrated projector
Sony Ericsson X10/X10pro
More coverage at Heise (German), Engadget and elsewhere [read] Keywords: google
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GTD in Singapore (or close by if you like)
Thu, Feb 11th 2010 3:24a Stephan H Wissel I love GTD. I'm a happy user of eProductivity (currently not so happy with myself, but that's a different story for a different day). Over time I got introduced to David and his team. In a recent conversation with Michael Dolan, the Director Coaching Services in DavidCo, he mentioned that DavidCo is planning to dispatch a coach to visit Singapore in the near future to serve an existing client. This presents the unique opportunity to engage DavidCo in a Corporate Seminar, get top quality Consulti [read] Keywords: consulting
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