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If you’re Malaysian and of voting age, chances are you’d be bombarded for the past two weeks or so with advertisements, banners, buntings, speeches and probably even by visits from politicians that you haven’t seen for the past five years.

Unless you’ve been living in a cave in the middle of nowhere, you’d surely know that this is a typical prelude to an upcoming election. Are you ready to play your role in this process?

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KUALA LUMPUR, 28 February 2008 – Green Packet Berhad (Green Packet) today announced a 24% jump in revenue from the previous year to RM122.84 million for its financial year ended 31 December 2007.

However, the company posted a lower pre-tax profit of RM30.99 million as compared with RM58.56 million in FY2006. Profit after tax (PAT) and minority an interest was RM30.16 million as compared with the previous corresponding period at RM55.29 million.

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I wrote about the tremor incident I experienced two days ago. One thing that amazes then was the fact that the bank that is located on the ground floor of my office building looked like it was operating as usual.

Staff and customers were still transacting as if it was just a typical business day. I thought surely, banks are not exempted from emergency or cautionary evacuations. Last night, I texted (AKA SMSed) some of my friends who are working in banks. I asked them if they ever went through a fire drill or similar evacuation exercises. Their answers shocked me!

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I’ve been asked a couple of times why I run my web hosting business using servers located overseas. The original reason was purely the lack of expertise and uncompetitive features when it comes to Malaysian web hosting companies. However, this seems to be a thing of the past as lots of Malaysian web hosts are getting rave reviews from customers within and beyond Malaysia.

Nevertheless, there exists a more significant problem that I don’t see going away anytime soon: our precarious Internet backbone. Most people will probably assume I’m talking about capacity issues here. However, it’s more worrying than that: it’s a mindset problem.

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I did an overview of the web server platforms used by Malaysian political parties a few days back. I then decided to go further and examine the actual contents of the linked sites, hoping to somehow link to the fact that we’re going to have a general election very soon.

I can conclude that Malaysian political parties are absolutely clueless on harnessing the power of the Internet to their advantage in the upcoming elections. Continue reading to find out the abysmal failures of our political parties in using web technology to garner support from Malaysian netizens.

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