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I was rather surprise to see Google show this to me when I was searching for “Peugeot 407″.
It pulls 3 of the images from the “Image”, and decorated the top result – what a nice idea.

But Google seems to prefer European cars only. Searching for “Proton Savvy” and “Ford Focus” has no decorating image result.

I would think the image decorating effort is a good one. Not necessary on cars only, it can be applicable to rather wide range of keywords – such as human figure, famous artworks, food products, electronics etc.

Go Google go!

I’ve got my MyKad finally. I hope the chapter ends here.
Holding the card feeling like holding some cheap plastic. The quality is no way near any credit card.

But I really don’t mind. That’s a card. Not me.

I’ve got this SMS today:

"Daftar no. Hotlink anda & dptkan dekoder Astro PERCUMA (kecuali caj pemasangan). Kunjungi Maxis Centre hari ini. Tertakluk kpd syarat & terma."

In English: "Register your Hotlink and get an Astro decoder for FREE (except for installation charges). Visit Maxis Centre today. Terms and condition apply."

So there you go. Hold your prepaid registration. The longer you hold, the better offer and price to come.
Just like the Mykad migration, you do know the government has thrown in some lucky draw at the end? (BTW, I was supposed to be qualified for the lucky draw, but did they draw already?)

It sounds rediculouse to exercise the Mykad migration. As ridiculous to register all the prepaid phone system. You think the criminals will register their prepaid phone with genuine identity? That’s what the law enforcement think – it is laughable and pathetic. It also sounds very desperate and clueless move.

“the crime is on the rise”
“ok, lets get everyone phone number registered”
“will that helps?”
“at least we are doing something here don’t you think?”
“…”

According to some reports, the celco and government has already spent hundreds of million on promoting and exercising prepaid phone registration (thank God they haven’t start singing it on the national TV – but again I am not sure as I don’t watch TV).

Someone somewhere has already started to “rob” the rakyat somehow.

I am seriously off topic.

What is the common interest of 4 of these companies?
Video playback on computer.

Real is one of the few first starter, but they was too conservative and too small to be noticeable.
Apple introduced QuickTime later, and Microsoft copied the idea and binary after that on their Media Player.

Adobe (Macro Media than) wasn’t in that market. When the browser bloom, Adobe has been trying hard to inject Flash player all over the browsers. And they did better despite they don’t own a piece of Windows or Mac OS.

Here is the tricky part: Flash was suppose to play .swf file only, which was their proprietary vector graphic media file, but eventually they injected movie capabilities into it.
What happen after is rather dramatic: almost all browser has a Flash plug-in came pre-installed, that means all browsers suddenly can play video in .swf format. That’s is an achievement that not even Microsoft and Apple able to push through.

So suddenly we see YouTube, Revver, Google Video picked Flash as their video playback format. Not QuickTime, not Media Player, not RealPlayer.

Simply because that is the best chance to play video on anyone’s browser.

What is the lesson here?

- anything to do with browser will win.
- anything that do not need user to install will win. Spyware included.
- critical mass is still the key to success.
- don’t let your enemies know your intension at first.
- your product sucks is fine, as long as your have most people on it.

You may have noticed the new 014 mobile prefix has been quietly introduced by Digi and Celcom recently. 014 is probably less favorable among the Chinese, but it’ll grow nevertheless.

What I don’t understand is, Digi (016) has decided to use 0146 as their prefix, but Celcom is 0148.
Again, Celcom way of inconsistent? Or 018 is own by Celcom anyway?

I know quite some persons using a few phones and celco to cut cost, as it is cheaper to talk using the same celco. For example, using your 012 phone to call 012 subscriber is cheaper, but cost more if you call 019 subscribers.

Malaysia celco business is basically dominant by Celcom and Maxis, having 2 of these celco subscription make sense if you are a heavy caller. However, with the 014x prefix introduced without consistency, and the forthcoming portable mobile number in the pipeline, it is getting tougher to cut cost that way: you just cannot identify celco by looking at the phone number anymore.

Unless all the celcos decided to have a flat rates among their traffic, it could be a little bumpy ride ahead.

This is my daughter taking EEG at Sunway Medical Centre.

She is the youngest in the record that was able to take EEG while awake

The picture shown her having breakfast (milk), watching Sesame Street on my PowerBook, while the physician fix the cables on her head.