The World << EOF

January 25, 2012

It’s 2012. The world ends this year. Let’s see how that works out.

Edit: It’s now April. Things look good. So far.

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Fluid App for Mac not working with gmail

October 16, 2011

If you’ve been using fluid app to make gmail it’s own little app, then you might have noticed that it stopped working when google introduced their new sign in page. When you hit “Sign In”, instead of signing in and showing you the gmail page, it’d open up a google sign in page in a tab in your browser, as if you were opening a new link.

What you need to do is go to your fluidapp’s “Preferences” window and click on “Advanced” in the application section. Depending on how much you’ve messed around with your fluid preferences, you should see a list of URL patterns that are allowed for browsing. You need to add this line to it:

*accounts.google.com/ServiceLoginAuth*

and gmail (or calendar or whatever google app) should now work with fluidapp again.

I reckon it would also work if you “allowed browsing to any URL”. But I’m too lazy to try.

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Rails warning: already initialized constant WFKV_

October 6, 2011

Rails suddenly kept spitting out this warning everytime I tried to do rake, or rspec or whatever:

marinara:sample_app fadhil$ bundle exec rspec spec//Users/fadhil/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/rack-1.3.4/lib/rack/backports/uri/common_192.rb:53: warning: already initialized constant WFKV_

The problem has something to do with rack v 1.3.4, so if you really must get rid of this warning (some OCD types might get extremely annoyed at this sort of nonsense), update your Gemfile to use rack 1.3.3. Add this line to your Gemfile:

gem ‘rack’ , ’1.3.3′

No more warning. yay!

Edit: You can find more of an explanation of the problem here.

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Disabling email notification in Drupal 7

July 27, 2011

Drupal is stupid sometimes. You have to do weird magic that nobody really explains to you. In order to disable that annoying PHP Mail error message that pops up when you’re running a localhost installation of Drupal7 (this happens because you probably don’t have a Mail Server), you need to change some settings in “Configuration->People->Registration and Verification” (specifically the ‘Require E-mail’ setting) and then add this line to the very bottom of your settings.php file:

$conf['user_mail_register_no_approval_required_notify'] = FALSE;

No more stupid PHP Mail error.

Stupid Drupal.

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I just remembered

May 28, 2011

I have a blog! Yay! I really should write here more often.

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I must admit

January 22, 2011

I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing half the time.

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The future of governance

December 7, 2010

The whole world seems to have it against the internetz nowadays, huh? Wikileaks banned in the U.S., facebook in so many muslim and fascist countries. Various blogs in various places. Malaysia’s just another government jumping on the bandwagon. Which led me to thinking: “Why are governments so afraid of the internet?” which in turn led me to smoke some shit. Two gigantic rips later, it hit me:

The internet is the future of governance.

Imagine a world where politicians were a thing of the past. A society where people govern themselves with the help of a judicial and law enforcement system, all via the internet. What do we really need politicians for? They’re just individuals we elect to represent us, the people. This used to be helpful before the age of the internet when people needed to meet up to exchange information and talk about things. But why are we still relying on this ancient method of communication when we have the glorious power of the internet?

What we need is an internet application as our government. A system that allows Joe Public to oversee everything.

Obviously we’d still need government bodies to actually run shit, like building roads and taking care of our amenities, but what we won’t need are politicians. You’ll still have your Kementerian Kesihatan and JKR or whatever, but it’s all open to Joe Public.

JKR fucks up a road? Joe Public votes to have the boss fired, installs a new one of his choice.

Kementerian Kewangan wants to come up with budgets? The CEO better have a good reason why they need to increase a tax if they want Joe Public to vote for it.

Basically, the country should be run as a company. Or a bunch of companies, all of which are answerable to Joe Public, majority shareholder of Malaysia Inc.

We shouldn’t be afraid of Government. Government should be afraid of us.

I’m at a [5], so I might have been rambling slightly.

(This post was originally a comment on a post on Freedom of Association)

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Wait for them to open

September 8, 2010

It was around the time they were talking about the sea being red. The ‘red sea’ or some sort they called it. Something about some kind of poisonous algae that killed the fish. We were having clams that Sunday, and I remember my father talking about that red sea that was killing all the fish and contaminating the clams, stirring the pot that seemed to me to be boiling over and steaming like a volcano about to erupt. He said you have to make sure your clams are cooked, in order that you don’t get sick from any of that red sea muck.

“How do you know if they’re cooked, Daddy?”

“They open up.”

And we had some lovely clams that day.

The clams in our country aren’t opened up yet.

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I suddenly thought of you

September 8, 2010

and thought I’d say hi.Hi! I love when people pop into mind. To take all that bother. For me! Oh, so nice to be thought of. But if I’m thinking of you because you’re thinking of me, then who’s thinking of either of us in the first place? Rather amusing train of thought. Are we but a figment of someone’s imagination?

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Keep your hands off my God!

January 9, 2010

Having recently subscribed to a new newsportal that calls it like it is (i.e. completely made up bullshit), I stumbled upon some heavily faked news about Hindus causing an uproar over usage of one of their Gods’ names on shabbily manufactured Malaysian automobiles. Highly unprobably, and decidedly untrue, Hindus have decided to retrospectively get pissed off about this sacrilegous act. You may read all about that and more finely packaged bullshit on http://harianmetroll.blogspot.com. Coincidentally, finely packaged bullshit is also what all the mainstream newspapers and media in our country serve.

In other unrelated news, Rock and Roll legend Ronnie James Dio has been approached by the Italian Diosceseses (or however the fuck you spell that) to drop the “Dio” from his name as it is confusing too many Italians into worshipping his likeness in coffeehouses all across the Peninsularish country.

92 and a half Italians responded in a completely biased poll that when they saw posters of ex-Sabbath slasher Dio’s album “Killing Dragons”, they felt a sense of awe and inspiring power that made them want to grovel on their knees and pray to it.

Fig.1: Ostensibly God, Killing The Dragon.
Which in itself seems to be quite a Godly task.

Notwithstanding that Ronnie James Dio looks more like the bastard son of Satan, various nitwits had complained of being “inexplicably compelled” to believe that Ronnie James Dio is in fact Christ reincarnate.

Fig 2: Ronnie Jamed Dio? Or Bastard Son of Satan? You decide.
In true CremeBrulee fashion, this post copied from a comment over at harianmetroll.

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