Lee Keng Fatt
New Straits Times

GEORGE TOWN, Sat:

DAP chairman Karpal Singh has denied that he and party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng had condemned the police, labelling them as lazy and “good for nothing.”

“I did not say it and I do not use such words,” he said, in response to a report lodged by an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP). “It is a terrible thing to do.”

He also denied that he was at a ceramah in Air Itam on Wednesday as indicated in the police report.

“I have checked with Guan Eng and both of us are amused as to how the ASP could make such a report when we were not even at the venue giving ceramah as indicated. I was in Sri Delima then and not at Air Itam. It is therefore a lie,” he said.

He was commenting on a statement by George Town district police chief Assistant Commission Azam Abd Hamid that the police would call both Karpal and Lim to give a statement on the case.
Speaking at a press conference at the state DAP headquarters in Jalan Talipon, Karpal and Lim both said they would give statements to the police but at their convenience and not police’s because of the campaigning.

Karpal, the candidate for Bukit Gelugor parliamentary seat, warned the police that he would not sit back but would also lodge a report if what the officer had indicated in his report was false.

“I take this matter very seriously and will not tolerate any lies from the police,” he said. “I find this is a good case for defamation because he had lied about us making the remark when we were not even there. Unless there were some clones out there. I would like to meet them.”

Karpal described the police report as a “normal scare tactic” usually used against the Opposition.

Social network sites are popular among Internet users today. Using social network profiles, users establish a network with their contacts, such as friends, alumni, company, political parties, family or even just to make friends. Friendster is perhaps the most popular social network site in Malaysia and South East Asia. Catching up on popularity is Facebook.

While I just joined Facebook recently, I have been a Friendster user since 4 years ago. One of the new features of Friendster, which is also available in Facebook is the ability to add applications in profiles. Applications range from games, horoscope, music, video, etc.

The applications serve to spice up a member’s profile by providing members a with choices to integrate interesting content in his profile. However, with more and more applications being developed, more and more users add lots of applications in their profile. And, this resulted in slow loading of profiles and at time caused web browser to get into a not responding status.

Well, many of these applications load images and animation, some to the extent of having sound and video, causing a pollution of multimedia contents in a profile.

To make matter worse, the ability to post animated greetings as Friendster comments would not do any good. A relief is that Friendster does provide the safe mode settings to disable the customization of profile layout but it does not work with the applications.

Friendster and Facebook as well as other social network sites should look into this and take necessary steps to prevent pollution of multimedia contents, in particular the applications.

Sunrise recorded higher number of hits than usual on 28 and 29 February 2008, in particular my posts on some election campaign issues have brought in traffic to the site. Sunrise is not a political blog anyway, rather, this blog is meant to be a combo of a personal diary and current issues close to my heart and that of public interest, be it political, economical or social issues.

So it looks, political topics may rule Sunrise for the next one week, until the election results are out and that a new Cabinet line-up is announced. Election topics in Sunrise will not explicitly claim support to any candidate or party, but rather provide an analysis of issues in my opinion are important to ponder by all parties, be they the BN or Opposition. After all, we need a strong government to rule but we also need a strong opposition to provide check and balance.

Alright, for those who have frequently visit Sunrise (formerly known as The J Blog), you would probably notice that the link to Yummy!, the food blog that I planned to launch some time ago has been removed as I have aborted the plan for now. I will continue to maintain my personal website, James Ooi Online (http://www.jolmy.com/) and this blog, Sunrise (http://sunrise.jolmy.com/).

James Ooi Online was once a rojak website. It used to contain my personal profile, photo gallery, links to other sites, jokes, Nokia ringtone codes, MIDI files, a guestbook, etc. However, I decided to only keep the photo gallery and guestbook a few years ago, with my personal profile integrated as the home page. In 2007, I removed the guestbook and introduced a video gallery, YouTube-style, I mean using the FLV format.

It seems no new sections will be introduced anymore in the near future. However, the photo gallery, J Gallery will now feature albums of random snapshots taken from time to time instead beginning with Snapshots on 29 Feb 2008. The theme-based albums will continue to be added along the random snapshots albums.