Author Archives for Universal Cynic

The Star: Miri Folk Plan to Sober Up Binge Drinkers


Here’s what Miri Indian Association chairman Karambir Singh said in The Star: “Drinking moderately is not a problem but excessive drinking will lead to greater problems like what happened to that baby,” he told The Star yesterday. Read full article: Miri folk plan to sober up binge drinkers Question: Well, if drinking excessively lead to […]

What Words Can’t Express


While (TM.exist == True) { Client.Net.Svc = Screwed; Var i = TM.bribe; For (i = 1; i < Inf (Money); i++) { Cmptitor(TM) = Blocked; Bldg.Mgr.Wlth = Bldg.Mgr.Wlth + i; Gov.Offcr.Wlth = Gov.Offcr.Wlth + i; Improve.Net.Svc = False; } Var u = Users.My; For (u = 1; u < Popltn.My; u++) { Client.Net.Svc = u […]

CADIE: Google’s April Fool’s Joke (2009) is More Elaborate Than It Seems


Every year on 1st of April, GMail will have some sort of April Fool’s joke. Last year was about some feature to have all your emails printed and posted to you… This year seems less elaborate and not so funny… at first. Here’s the link: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html. However, on deeper inspection, there’s more to it! There’s a […]

Creating Separators in Vista Start Menu


I don’t like Windows to keep track of programs I use often because it doesn’t really got it right. At the same time, I am not much of a fan of the Vista Start Menu when it comes to the All Programs menu. To keep programs I use often close at hand, I disabled the […]

Block Ads in IE8 with Built-In InPrivate Filtering


Create an XML file somewhere (on your desktop is good). The contents should be like the following: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <rss version=”2.0″ xmlns:wf=”http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/webfilter/2008“> <channel> <title>blocker</title> <description>Export of InPrivate Filtering</description> <item> <description>MSN Advertisements</description> <wf:blockRegex><![CDATA[.*ads.*\.msn\.com.*]]></wf:blockRegex> </item> </channel> </rss>

Finally, Vista On My Notebook


Finally, I’ve upgraded to Vista. Held on to XP for some time but I can’t stand that it slows down a lot when there are a lot of files in a folder. Since folders I work on (XML source files) contains thousands of files, that’s just too disruptive. So, I backed up XP and installed […]

The 6 Editions of Windows 7


It seems that Microsoft will release 6 editions of Windows 7. More than the number of editions for Vista! However, according to Microsoft, each edition will be a superset of a lower edition. So, you won’t get confused like when choosing Vista where choosing a Business edition means losing some feature of Home Premium and […]

They Showed America Change Can Happen. Now Show the World, Please.


Barrack Obama has been elected President of the United States of America. Congratulations to the man, and all his supporters in the USA and around the world. He promised change to the USA and some of the changes, will undoubtedly affect the World. I have always admired Americans for their tenacity, their will, their imagination, […]


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