My opinions only, no facts here:
Long ago, I spent some time explaining on another Websleuths thread, how to do a “negative search” on the Internet. Rather than repeat myself, I will give you a very simple example. Say that Joe Blow wins a national lottery and now is instantly more well-known and richer than Forrest Gump. Whatever Internet information about Joe Blow that existed BEFORE he won the national lottery is now absolutely shrouded by hundreds of thousands of hits related only to his recent lottery win. There is a way, with a mix of art and science, to “see through” all of the recent “white noise”. A careful placement of search terms in Google Advanced Search, particularly in the “none of these words” box can narrow the search results to only those hits that existed BEFORE Joe Blow won the national lottery. The reason I perform “negative searches” is because stories can change AFTER a significant event occurs. I want to see if the story before matches the story afterword.
The potential downside of doing “negative searches” may be significant; you might be detected by Google’s mysterious algorithms, and end up have to put a password into a Captcha box for every search. My Captcha problems began years ago (when I first started to used Advanced Search in clever ways), and have resurfaced with a vengeance while doing “negative searches” about the Captain of MH-370.
Below are four sites that contain posts possibly sent by the Captain of MH-370 that predate the disappearance of MH-370 (this is not to say that these have not been re-posted elsewhere since then, but at least these posts could be the original unedited sources) and one post that post-dates the disappearance of the plane. One caution: I have very good virus and firewall protection, so clicking on the URL addresses listed below causes me no problems at all (I have not tested links or embedded files from these sites). I cannot guarantee that other computer users are protected to the same extent as I am. Look for the term Zaharie, as part of a name or email address in the pages generated from my URL links.
http://www.x-sim.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20&start=110 (Nov. 17, 2012).
http://forum.mutleyshangar.com/index.php/topic/9403-thanks-jack-whaley-baldwin/ (Dec. 27, 2012).
https://plus.google.com/111986526065161012493/posts (Nov. 10, 2013; this site WILL contain later email messages from strangers that post-date the disappearance of MH-370)
http://www.ductlessdr.ca/how-to-tune-aircon-to-save-electricity/ (Feb. 15, 2014; this is possibly the last attributable post from the Captain; the Captain is thanking someone who I can find nothing definitive about; it is possible that there is some misspelling of the text-string for the email address of whom he is thanking).
AFTER MH-370 disappeared, the following URL lists a group of earlier posts supposedly from the Captain of MH-370:
http://motionsim.blogspot.com/2014/03/sending-positive-energy-your-way-zaharie.html
The Captain’s (possibly-attributable) posts portray a fervent tech-fan with moderate amateur electronic skills, maybe even an incurable game-boy! There is no hint in these posts of any progressive change in attitude or personality over time. There is nothing to indicate that the Captain of MH-370 had anything to do with its disappearance. I say all of this, being well-informed about the intricacies of Malaysian politics.
Nothing is cast in stone here. I keep an open mind. This is just a post that reflects my opinions at the moment.
Sleuth On!