Cranky Thoughts & Muses

“Identity theft” refers to crimes in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person’s personal data (i.e., name, date of birth, social security number, driver’s license number, and your financial identity— credit card, bank account and phone-card numbers) in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain (to obtain money or [...]

I have always heard of people talking about making money with their blogs. I wondered HOW? Personally, I am not too keen on blogging for money, for one I am not a good blogger, two I don’t think I will be able to blog enough for the kind of money I hope for Anyway, [...]

Yesterday, 25 January 2007, we had a half day downtime for both our website and forum. The reason being our domains were not renewed by the the previous host. After a half day wait, they came back to inform us that our info is not up to date. So, we had to update the info [...]

Have been reading daily that bloggers are being sued over their articles they blogged which has offended some powerful parties, small parties, or even an individual. That made me ponder, why do we blog? If we aren’t allowed to express our thoughts through our own blog, then where else can we do it? Isn’t blogging [...]

One member, jinkeanlim, has helped us to create a Chinese New Year logo to spark up the festive mood of our members.
The word in chinese is “Chun” which is “Spring” in Chinese.
We wish to thank Mr Lim for his kind effort and interest in helping Malaysians Abroad.
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MalaysiansAbroad.net was down since 4.30pm finnish local time because of International link outage problem from Europe to Malaysia server.
We worked very closely with our host to resolve the matter. It has been speculated that this problem shall persist for another month and Telekom Malaysia has not confirmed the ETA for full recovery.
During this ordeal, MalaysiansAbroad.net [...]

It’s been 2 weeks since the earthquake in Taiwan damaged the undersea cable thus enabling majority of Malaysian online surfers from their routine.
it’s been heard bloggers and websurfers had a difficult time adjusting to the “new” routine, ie. to go without online access to many sites. But do not fret, cuz TMnet has came up [...]

1. The best way to get even is to forget.
2. Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.
3. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
4. Some folks wear their halos much too tight.
5. Some marriages are made in heaven, but ALL have to be maintained on earth.
6. Unless you can create the universe [...]

Pronounced as: (fish´ing) (n.)

Came across this word after I downloaded Internet Explorer v.7. Wondering what it is, I googled for its definition. Here is what it means:
The act of sending an e-mail to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information [...]