Cows Crossing

Ran into some cows during lunch near Batu Maung in Penang today. You never see this in KL anymore. They had the roads to them self 馃檪

2007-07-25 路 1 min 路 Danesh Manoharan

PayPal phishing

Received this mail in my Gmail yesterday. Supposedly from PayPal. The pretend PayPal wanted me to update my credentials by login into a fake PayPal lookalike page. Too most unsuspecting users the mail would have seem 100% legitimate as seen In the screenshots below. They would have given up their user names and passwords without even knowing what they had done. Imagine the damage if IE, Firefox and most newer browsers have no phishing protection built in to alert the user about possible phishing alerts. You can see the alert in the screenshots below. ...

2007-07-24 路 1 min 路 Danesh Manoharan

Spotted Dick

Seen any weird names on food products lately. Check out what my colleague Elvin found in Tesco yesterday. Spotted dick, damn!! Had your laugh? I did. Ok, now the truth. Spotted Dick is actually a dessert. It鈥檚 a steamed pudding with dried fruits made popular in the UK. The popular dessert also goes by other names. Spotted Dog, Plum Duff, Figgy Dowdy, Plum Bolster and Spotted Richard. Spotted Dick at WikePedia

2007-07-23 路 1 min 路 Danesh Manoharan

Condom Dispenser

I have been in Penang for the past week now attending training for EMC, ORACLE and VMWare. I am into my second week now and should be back in KL late this week. Stumbled upon a cool vending machine near USM last night. A condom dispenser, something I鈥檝e thought of starting myself before. Malaysian generally are not too open to the idea of walking into 7eleven and picking up a pack of condoms. I myself don鈥檛 have a problem walking into 7eleven and picking up a pack of condoms. Why should I feel embarrassed? I am proud actually, I鈥檓 only buying it to promote safe sex with my partner and in return we have a healthy relationships as my act shows that I respect her. ...

2007-07-23 路 1 min 路 Danesh Manoharan

Hosting move complete.

My domain and hosting transfer from godaddy to shinjiru was successful. I am currently moving my forum and gallery over ans should be done later today. How鈥檚 the site speed now?

2007-07-18 路 1 min 路 Danesh Manoharan