Borneo Blog

Borneo Blog is celebrating its first anniversary next month. I guess, it’s time for a revamp and to add in one important feature that has been missing on this blog all the while — a blogroll.

I think I’m going to divide the blogroll into four categories, namely Sabah bloggers, Sarawak bloggers, Brunei bloggers and Kalimantan bloggers to make it a true Borneo blogroll.

Anyone heard of the word “extractive”? According to Google definition, extractive is:

1. Something that may be extracted; The substance left behind after something has been extracted; That serves to extract something; Able to be extracted;

2. Parcels that are primarily used for surface mining and extraction of materials such as gravel, stone, minerals, ore, soil, or peat.

If that is the case, what then is the meaning of “extractive experience”?

Nothing. It means nothing.

I didn’t know that I had used the meaningless phrase in this post, until someone emailed me and pointed out the error. I really meant to write “extensive experience” and didn’t know how my fingers ended up keying in the wrong word.

I didn’t even know whether the word existed. Until today, that is.

Whoever you are, thanks for pointing out the error. I’ve spotted several others on this blog but not as fatal as extractive experience.

I do hope, however, that I didn’t cause anyone to lose a job with the Heart of Borneo for having stated that candidates with an extractive experience would stand a better chance at landing the job.

But I’m quite happy that as of today, this blog is on #1 on Google and Yahoo for the keyword “Borneo Blog”.

Maybe it’s going to drop tomorrow, who knows, but it doesn’t really matter so long as Borneo Blog stays on page one of both search engines for the keyword.

Being in the #1 is probably nothing though. I don’t really know what to make of this.

Just some blogkeeping announcement. I’ve removed the Borneo Polls Series widget, titled “Which of place below is your favourite destination in Sabah?”, from the main page of this blog and republished it as a page.

The reason for that is that the widget had somehow slowed down this blog’s loading time.

This may not be a problem for those with broadband connection but some of my friends who still use the 56kbps dail-up, told me that the widget was slowing down the loading time.

I guess, this blog should load faster now.

The poll can now be accessed via the header navigation. You can still vote by accessing the Poll section of this blog.

As of today, Danum Valley still leads the list of Borneo Blog readers’ favourite destination.

Another thing

I’ve also created a Forum section on this blog and still trying to figure out how to implement it effectively.

I plan to give everyone a full access to the forum so that everybody will have the chance to participate without having to go through the prior registration process.

I will be posting topics on that forum from time to time. You can also suggest topics for discussion.

I’ve been working quite hard to get where this blog is now on Google. And it’s finally here on the main page for the keyword “Borneo Blog”.

It used to be tucked away somewhere in the 6th or 7th page. Having reached this spot I should now work even harder to remain on the main page.

Okay, this may be an out of Borneo thing, but I can’t resist posting it here. Former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad blogs! He can be found at www.chedet.com.

Che Det is his pen name when he wrote his columns back in the 60’s.

About Borneo

Borneo, at the size of 748,168 sq km, is the third largest island in the world. But if you count Australia (at 7,618,493 sq km) as an island, then you will have to demote Borneo into the fourth spot.

[Map by Google Earth]

If you take Australia out of the equation, then the world largest island will be Greenland, at 2,175,600 sq km, followed by New Guinea at 785,753 sq km.

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