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It turns your Sony Ericsson mobile phone into a remote control for your Mac: Sony Ericsson Clicker! 0.99. More comments here. Link to file.

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http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/02/19/engine.html?page=1

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http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/02/20/linuxhacks.html

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We love gadgets. Gadgets take batteries. Lots of them. So we use rechargable batteries. Here are a couple of good links to batteries.

Dan’s Quick Guide to Memory Effect, You Idiots
Batteries in a Portable World

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My HKNet ADSL line is now back to normal. Already scheduled to have a technician to come check the line this afternoon. I am expecting to receive his call very soon now, just to tell him things are back to normal and there is no need for him to come.
For the conspiracy theorists, this is [...]

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My HKNet ADSL broadband link has been down since around 05:00 hours this morning. I get a static IP address with this line, from which I run my email server for the rollingegg.net domain, so I don’t have access to any rollingegg.net email since this morning. I also have problem accessing hkmedia.com email, ‘cos access [...]

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http://www.streetsensation.co.uk/
Part-time Domestic Helper System: matching, scheduling, notification, management, rating

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Very interesting article by Paul Graham. And then long and some interesting discussions on Slashdot.

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I went into Town Central to get the Danny Summer in Concert DVD, and also wanted to pick up the DVD for “Infernal Affairs”. There were loads of Infernal Affairs VCDs (two different packaging) but the cashier lady said that the DVD version was sold out(!). I have also heard that the Danny Summer DVD [...]

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The Register has this story about Orange offering flat rate GPRS data in the U.K. Good move I say.
I think a flat rate plan with an Acceptable Usage Policy seems to be the best way to commoditize telecom services.

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According to the U.K. Census 2001, 0.7% of the population, or 390127, are of the religion “Jedi”. Yes, you read it right, Jedi as in people in Star Wars.

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In the March edition of the National Geographic, there is an article about Qatar. I first read about this country years ago in the Readers’ Digest, then it was a couple of years ago when Hong Kong applied to host the Asian Games and lost to Doha, Qatar’s capital city. What caught my interest was [...]

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My old man used to subscribe to the National Geographic a few years ago. Right before X’mas 2002 I saw a junk mail from the NG. I have always wanted to subscribe to it so I sent off the cheque, and the magazine came thru the post yesterday.
I did consider getting the Chinese version of [...]

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Interesting concept this is, a floating prison on the sea. Ironic that someone escaped.

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At a time when I still had time and energy to get up early and travel far to shoot sunrise. That camera in the picture isn’t mine. It was one of Roy’s mod cameras.
Thank Roy for the picture.

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The Lady just bought this. Teresa Carpio has been with us forever. I didn’t think too much of her back then, but I suppose it takes experience and wisdom to appreciate fine artists, and she is one fine singer.
The package is excellent value for money: two HDCDs and a VCD for HK$88. The only [...]

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The Register has this halarious piece. In summary, the UK Parliament manages its own parliament.uk domain. It wants to apply for a SSL certificate from Thwate. Thwate went to Nominet to try to verify that the UK Parliament is the rightful owner of the subject domain. Nominet couldn’t find such record (‘cos the domain was [...]

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It’s the Year of the Goat. Live well and prosper.

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