I was being annoying to myself yet again. I wanted a WordPress loop to show only a single paragraph and a ‘read more’ link. No, I do not want to use the <!--more--> tag. I know there are a couple of plugin that does this and more, I don’t one to use any plugin either.

I’ve lost count how many times I did a redesign to this website of mine. One thing for sure is that the more redesign I do, the less of a ‘design’ it has become. Here you see me obsessed in minimalistic white-space heavy design. Less is not just more, less is better. Sort of.

A silly little website that searches Foursquare checkins at a certain area on the map. It finds trending venues and display it on the map. You might have guessed it already, I’m just playing around with the Foursquare API. Try it out:- lab.jshamsul.com/crowded

Those who knows me personally probably know that I am an Apple/Mac centric kind of person. No, I’m not going to use the ‘F’ word that rhythms with ‘boy’ but I have been called that from time to time.

These few days, Malaysian cat lovers, Kitteh defenders alike were up in arms over what had happened to over 200 pet felines that were supposed to be under the care of Petknode, a company that offers cat boarding services. These are pet cats and not stray cats.

During the recent Bersih rally in Kuala Lumpur, some over 30,000 Malaysian were at the streets demanding a fair and clean election process. I thought it was the best time to try out a web experiment of mine which I an calling it ‘Jejak Kicau‘, the term is in Malay and it translates directly to english as ‘Tweets Track’ or something.

Wirawan Web is my latest project with Zaidel Baharuddin. We started this webzine/weblogs for web geeks and Internet freaks. We are keeping it web/internet related with topics ranging from silly things like Twitter trending hashtags and viral videos to a more serious stuff like Interent censorships and online privacy.