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I heard that this was a mindbender film so I embargoed myself out of reading anything about it. That means no reviews, no forum posts talking about it, nothing. That’s probably why I enjoyed the film as much as I did, given that: It has a terrible title which tells you nothing whatsoever about the [...]

The 2011 AI Challenge is now over. I finished in 71st place. While that’s some way off of my 47th position in Planet Wars, considering the complexity of this year’s challenge and the fact that there was a total of 7,897 entrants this year, compared to less than 5,000 last year, I’m very glad to [...]

I didn’t exactly forget to write one of these for November 2011. It’s just that between personal issues, my participation in the 2nd International Melaka Walkathon and most of all, spending lots of time on my entry for the AI Challenge 2011, I just never got around to it. Well, better late than never and [...]

Early this month, to little international outcry, the US Senate passed a bill that would make Malaysia’s controversial ISA look positively tame by comparison. The bill in question is the National Defense Authorization Act. Glenn Greenwald of Salon summarizes the most important provisions as follows: (1) mandates that all accused Terrorists be indefinitely imprisoned by [...]

I’ve been cleaning up some of the old books I have scattered around my mother’s house. Some of these have been too damaged by poor storage conditions and need to be junked. Some others I’m too embarrassed to keep and will be donated. The rest needs to be packed up to be ready to be [...]