Here’s my speed on my home TMNet Streamyx.

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So many chess people have talked to me and asked about setting up a Malaysian online playing site similiar to ICC, FICS and WCL. I’m not against it but it is unlikely to succeed business-wse because of the expensive server cost. You’ll have to be prepared to pay about at least RM 400 per month [...]

Have you ever heard of Digg.com ?According to Wikipedia ..Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a broader range of categories such as politics and entertainment. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.News stories and websites are [...]

My blog is worth $34,436.94.How much is your blog worth?

Previous worth on April 29, 2007 was $31,614.24.
For those who don’t know, this is not a serious or accurate gauge of anyone’s blog price. But factors like… Continue reading

When you browse the internet as much as I do, research tools are pretty important. I came across this site called Blinklist.com because I saw their job advert for a web developer. The company is MindValley and their work culture and environment looked so cool and it was very much a Google-like company in [...]

I suspect there’s something wrong with my feed as there are only 2 subscribers so I have deleted the old feed and recreated a new feedburner feed. If you do not know what is an RSS Feed click here.
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The new version uses Javascript and allows comments to be added into the movelist.
Here’s a test showing Kramnik vs Fritz (game 3) with comments taken from Susan Polgar blog. Click Replay Game link to view the game.
Please be patient as it’ll take a few days to make it easy for bloggers to cut-and-paste pgn to [...]

Chess Publisher is getting popular with many chess blogs using it.
It consists of two parts - Flash Genie written by Robert Ambalang and PHP engine written by me.
I’m just happy that many chess bloggers have started using it. The biggest promo I got was from former Women World Champion GM Susan Polgar when she herself [...]

I may be a Patzer but I am a decent web programmer.
One of the perks of a programmer is that I can add lots of cool web tools to my blogs that most other chess bloggers do not have. (when I have the time to program that is :))
Take for example this PHP/Flash graph I [...]

Susan Polgar’s blog post mentioned my Chess Publisher tool used to easily publish chess games on blogs.
The flash component was actually developed by Robert Ambalong but you had to code the HTML manually to insert the game. I used it extensively in my own blog, so I came out with an easy [...]

As you know, this blog is full of my ramblings about anything related about chess (or sometimes unrelated to chess :))
Still, the traffic I’ve been getting is pretty good considering it’s mostly Malaysian readers. I took this test to see how much my blog was worth. Here’s the result..

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I’ve been using Google docs these past few weeks and it’s fantastic. I love the collaborative feature and the idea that I can edit my documents anywhere (as long as there is internet connection). You just need a free GMail account in order to use this service. YOu can find it at http://docs.google.com.
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With the proliferation of cool web 2.0 tools and open source web programs, social networking is the next big thing. Let’s try to capitalise on that and improve the state of Malaysian chess community.
We may most likely lose to Singapore in the coming Malaysia-Singapore challenge but at least we can beat Singapore by having the [...]

Blogging is so easy today that anybody can start a blog. You don’t need to be a web designer or web programmer to maintain a blog. Besides, there are many websites that offer free blog hosting such as Blogger, WordPress and BlogSpirit.
However one common problem chess bloggers face is the difficulty of posting Chess Diagrams [...]

“Reactivating” my chess wiki again. The original one was hosted on a free webserver. It’s now moved into the same server as GilaChess.com. The URL is: http://wiki.gilachess.com.
A Wiki is a website where anybody can add and edit content. I treat it as my online chess scrap book where I post any chess-related text and [...]