One cautious week with an AI assistant: from rating bongkersz.com and WhatsApp chats to spreadsheets, FCPO, reports and quantity take-offs for 17 buildings.
The recovery work is mostly done. The old blog is back. Now comes the harder part: actually writing again.
The haze is often blamed on oil palm plantations, but the reality is more complicated: fire, peatland, economics, land ownership, enforcement and responsibility all intersect long before the smoke crosses a border.
Little walk down the memory lane… Some of you old farts might remember this place. bongkersz.com. The Flaccid Mind. A stupid name for a blog where I spent an equally stupid amount of time writing equally stupid things. I started blogging sometime around 2005. Back then there was no Instagram, TikTok, Threads or whatever shit […]
A 2018 return to blogging, reflecting on why long-form writing faded after social media and what drew bongkersz back to the keyboard.
A 2016 pre-election Sarawak opinion post setting out the issues the author believed mattered most, including everyday costs, infrastructure, basic services and governance.