...if I was at home^h^h^h^h^h^h^h* in the country that issues my passport, nobody (well, maybe Hello! magazine) would be criticising M for his window-dressing. If the Malaysian net has a problem, it's excess of image and lack of content. I'm not sure that's even restricted to the online media. In my view, it's been such a long time since Malaysians had access to conflicting points of view that many of you have lost the habit of critical reading and have just been admiring the pictures. If that seems rude, it's meant to be helpful. Critical thinking is the best defence against systematic abuse.

You can criticise his style, that's popular - his international reputation is typically megalomaniac or tyrant - but he's also regarded as almost single-handedly bringing about the modernisation of Malaysia. He is one of the few Malaysians whose name used abroad won't bring the "who?" response. When he speaks or writes, there are a lot of Malaysians listening or reading. They may mostly belong to an age-group younger Malaysians might regard as irrelevant, but they wield a great deal of power.

Probably his only criterion for choosing a blogging platform was 'have I heard of it?', or 'most popular?', or 'has wealthiest owner?'. Writing a blog on an experimental host, or one with distracting bells and whistles, when his most influential readers just want to see his words would have been silly.

For an old bloke that was in charge once and still has influence, blogspot is the sensible choice.

*I am at home: home is where my (Malaysian) wife and children are. I'm the only foreigner in my home! Hey, why no <strike> or <del>?