Archive for December, 2008

A big THANKS to donations received

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Test post from PDA/phone

Test post from PDA/phone
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Chess.maribelajar.com suspended

This is one message I hate to see..

That’s my MariBelajar.com domain. The effect is that all the chess publisher diagrams that was hosted there is inaccesible and is replaced with the message above. This is bad as many websites use the original Chess Publisher.  Susan Polgar regularly uses it for her blog.
I’m getting [...]

January 2009 packed again

Here’s GilaChess Calendar for January 2009 and 4 of the weekends have a chess event on!
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10K visitors

December is the only other month besides August with the highest GilaChess traffic this year. It is also the only other month that just cross the 10,000 visitor mark.
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Last minute reminders

Tomorrow is new year’s eve and there are two important reminders to chess fans:-
Chessmate Academy Scholarship
You may have already realised by now with the big banner logo I’m displaying at the right side of this blog, I’m a big supporter of this program. Granted that it is good marketing to offer something free to [...]

Intchess Singapore in shared 2nd spot

Al Ain Chess Club A from UAE and Qi Yuan Club from China remained at the top of the table with 8 match points. Seven teams — Vietnam Victory Club, Club India, Tagaytay Chess Club from Philippines, Fajr Shams Chess Club from Iran, Chirchik Chess from Uzbekistan, Club Intchess from Singapore and Al Ain Chess [...]

Singapore chess better than Malaysia

Although there was no Malaysia vs Singapore match this year, I’m unnoficially declaring ..
Year 2008 - Malaysia vs Singapore -> a WIN for Singapore.
This is just my 1 and half cents worth (right or wrong please don’t ‘tembak’ me ):-
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Keeping GilaChess afloat

Just received the invoice for GilaChess.com and Maribelajar.com webhosting. The  billed amount comes out to RM 700++ !! Shocker. I totally forgot about it until Exabyte shut down my MariBelajar domain just now. GilaChess.com is next on the chopping block as it is set to expire on 31st Dec. With my extra spendings [...]

Dopod 818 pro

Enough of just talking about “I want this or that PDA”!. I’m getting this from Masros 2nd hand. It’s better than the iPaq 2200 because it’s a PDA as well as a phone. My current Sony Ericson phone is bad and I’ve frequently miss calls because of it.
The CPU is a little slow at 195 [...]

The mess I call my room

Before and after pictures of my work space.
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Oops was it my fault?

The RSC tournament turn out was only 36 players in total. Dr Wahid emailed me the details about 5 days in before the event. It was posted on the same day in GilaChess.com. However I forgot to put in the contact details such as the contact person and telephone number. Colin Madhavan did put it [...]

Funny T-Shirts

 
Saw this on a T-shirt being sold at the Curve (RM 35).

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It’s been a Gila year

 
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Getting lazier

I wanted badly to go to the RSC today but was too bogged down with work. That’s my fault for falling behind again. Still trying to get into the rhythm of programming again.
Anyway I called Jax by using Skype’s computer to phone feature and recorded him reading out the  results. Why write it down [...]