Okay, maybe you don’t know what the heck is BarCamp so, let’s drill in a bit first.

BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences (or unconferences). They are open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and were related to open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. The format has also been used for a variety of other topics, including public transit, health care, and political organizing.

Read more at Wikipedia or at BarCamp Penang

And it's not just for geeks. You can share your experience that you have with your ukulele also!

I went to my first BarCamp session last October at BarCamp Bangkok 4.

People come from all over the place. Some are from the states, some from Europe and of course they are plenty of local participants and from the neighbouring countries like Burma, Cambodia and Vietnam as well.

Because of the large turnout expected, the event itself is split into 2 days and at each morning, we will start with the proposal and voting session.

Propose your topic in the voting session.

Everyone gets to propose their own topics and vote for topics that they would like to attend to. The organizer will then allocate the time slots accordingly for the rest of the day.

In a classroom where a Barcamp participant shares his topic.

This time around, I will be going to BarCamp Penang 2011 on 14 May 2011. I think, for this time around, I will be sharing some topics of my interest to the folks there.

Check out BarCamp Penang 2011 blog for more latest updates! See you there.

This is a video clip that I obtained from Satkuru‘s facebook page. Why? This particular video made its way here in order to spread a simple message and you know what it is.

Just look at the ill-treatment by the workers of A’Famosa Resort. The worker there did not bother to do anything or feeling any sense of guilt despite being complained by the owner who took this video.

Experts from the lobby group Save the Tiger Fund estimate that only 3,200 tigers survive in the wild, down from 100,000 a century ago, mainly due to poaching and loss of habitat in south and southeast Asia.

With so little left in the wild, tigers are going into extinction soon.Needless for me to say that how much that we need to do our part to conserve theses big cats. Please spread the video around and do not visit A’Famosa resort Melaka.

Malaysia may have the first world country’s facility but with this worse-than-third-world-country’s management, we can’t go far.

Despite having our own 1Malaysia Lotus F1 team on the grid this year and having Petronas keep throwing money on F1 sponsorship, NTV7 has failed again on bringing live telecast for most of the races.

Last year, it only managed to broadcast 5 races live. This year, it will broadcast only 7 races live out of 19 races in total.

Ntv7 was announced yesterday as the official host broadcaster of the Petronas Malaysian F1 Grand Prix at the Sepang Circuit from April 2-4.

It will air seven races ‘live’ this year – the GPs in Australia, Malaysia, Brazil, China, Canada, Japan and South Korea.

Twelve other races – in Bahrain, Singapore, Spain, Monaco, Turkey, Europe, Britain, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Italy and Abu Dhabi – will be delayed telecasts.

Link: Berita Harian News

When the broadcast rights is given to 8TV in2006, all the races are aired live.

NTV7 F1 2010 show schedule:

Credit: The schedule above is obtained from NTV7 blog.

With so much of involvement in F1 over these years, with millions of ringgit wasted on F1, we will be catching the first qualifying for the 2010 season in Abu Dhabi tonight at 11pm on NTV7 with a delay 4 hours of original schedule time of 7pm.

Way to go Malaysia! Go go 1Malaysia!

Alternatives

What you can do to stay ‘live’?

You may use the F1′s live timing application online to view the official live timing sheet.

Visually, you may try to use online streaming services like TVUPlayer, PPStream, or other direct streaming links. (This requires a bit of digging in search engine though)

If you are hooked on satellite service like Astro, you may tune in to Star Sports if you don’t mind the very bad commentary.

Join the discussion of the F1 2010 season in Lowyat.net forum

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* Maintain and administer NPI CIM Applications
* Develop and coordinate with local and global team on system enhancement project
* Able to provide off-office hour support and attend night conference call

Requirements:

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* Minimum 2 years working with hands-on experience on ASP and .NET web application development.
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