sites and songs

this is really quite nice - www.kualalumpur.gov.my. of course it's probably been there for ages before i happened to stumble upon it - an occupational hazard of spending most of your time each working day doing work which isn't exactly terribly IT-intensive (yet, anyway).

government websites have sure come a long way from the days when the website generally accepted as the website representing the country was in a sub-directory lost somewhere under the site of the nation's then only ISP, and was essentially a haphazard trade directory of sorts where the most advanced piece of code was "[table]". sites later became more well-planned and had better content, but began to reek of overkill of multimedia and graphics.. the website of a particular government department used to have its home page made entirely up of 58 relatively large images (some of these constituted crucial links and there was little or no alternate text!), 'twas quite a pain cos we didn't have very fast connections then..

meanwhile, check out the website of the department of lands and mines in selangor (a.k.a. the selangor land registry to some of us). did you know that the said land registry has its very own official SONG?