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After 3 days fighting spam bots with my phpBB version 2, I decided to upgrade it to phpBB3. Unfortunately, the configuration for administrator sucks. I don’t know why, but it took me longer time to configure it out compared to the existing Simple Machine forum engine.

Luckily, only Kay and Meng Chwen registered, and no ‘genuine’ forum post written yet.

Now that I have improvise registration process, I am hoping that there will be no more automatic bots registration into the forum.

At last…

After 2 years of struggling online with mount-kinabalu-borneo.com website and 1 year with this blog, it is about time for me to open Mount Kinabalu more to the online community.

Frankly speaking, I hate the booking system by Sutera Sanctuary Lodges (SSL). It was bearable 2 years ago, but it was getting horrible. Initially, booking with them was really easy, even a walk-in travelers/climbers could get a place to climb. You could even tailor made your trip so that you could save some money by DIY-ing (do-it-yourself) the package, and don’t have to pay hefty amount of money to tour and travel operator which sometimes unbearable for budget travelers.

I received a call from Nuffnang just now about my website entry to The Dotcom Youth Search. It was a surprise, as I did not expect my website to be shortlisted as the top 10 highest voters. They received more than 400 entries, and a lot of the site submitted are more “bling” and “happening” than mount-kinabalu-borneo.com.

We managed to go back to Kudat last Saturday for just a short break. A good getaway for my family, as it has been a while since my children saw their grandparent.

I also managed to snap some photos of the Longhouse and the surroundings, and currently still editing the photos. I may have to take some time to do it, and will upload it here as soon as possible.

somewhere in the south of France stands this red door, originally uploaded by alex (melfitano).

To all Kinabalu Blog readers, Mount Kinabalu Borneo.com visitors, Mount Kinabalu mountain climbers, backpackers and travelers.

I would like to wish you a very delightful Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday!

Cheers!

Ruhaizad, Mainie, Dany Hijazi & Syahzanani Izzati…

Please vote for my website. Thank you!

Hi Mount Kinabalu climbers and lovers,

It has been 2 years since I started my Mount Kinabalu climbing website. The site has been a reference to so many people, who are looking for information on how to climb Mount Kinabalu from the internet.

Until yesterday, me and my partner, Aiden, decided to take part in The Malaysian Dotcom Youth Search, The Hunt For Innovative, Commercially Viable Website.

It’s time for me to migrate the old Mount Kinabalu FAQ pages to our new home. It’s not that I don’t like the old FAQ engine (I used SiteHelpCenter.com FAQ system), but I think it’s time for the FAQ to be more user friendly and have 2-way interaction between me and my visitors.

Some of the improvement on the new FAQ system are:

I wrote about red colored durian in July 2007, not knowing that the post will become so popular. At the time I wrote this post, the article about durian is the third most popular post in this blog.

Today I received an email from Mike Pool, one of the blog reader who would like to know  ANY recipe about durians!

Hi!