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Saw it at Wanchai 298 Computer Mall on Sunday, going for HK$800(?). It doesn’t come with any memory, but takes CF and Microdrive. It is DSP-based, so the firmware is infinitely upgradable. Comes with an FM tuner. Smaller than its predecessor (which was the size of a deck of cards). Interesting design. Supposed to be [...]

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Listerine Cool Mint Oral Care Strips. Now available from Watson’s.

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in the form of a Borg Cube.

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cheap immitation.

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Let me elaborate on my proposed SMS project. One of its many uses is to complement my calendar tool project.
Until death takes care of them all, we’ll always have some computer illiterates and semi-illiterates who can’t/won’t/refuse to/seldom use computers. Having an online calendar may be no good for them, but the problem is easily solved [...]

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Cannibal H.T. is one today.

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SMS is a useful tool. It is not being fully utilized in Hong Kong. Talk time is cheap, at the same time folks can’t type Chinese and can’t write English, so I won’t be surprised that most of the local SMS usage is for downloading ringtones and logos.
A worthwhile project is to build an SMS [...]

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The Flash Mobs came from Smart Mobs. Smart mobs were semi-organized crowds networked via modern communication technology, to poll resources, creativity and expertise to solve (specific or otherwise) problems. Unfortunately, it has been downhill from there since.
The Flash Mobs is better described as behaviour art. There is nothing wrong with behaviour art per se, as [...]

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Who needs an IBM Thinkpad X31 when one can get the latest Apple Powerbook 12” for about the same price?
It is faster, burns CDs and DVDs, has built-in 802.11g and Bluetooth, small, light, runs Unix, and oh, shiny.

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On Coop server:-

Install SquirrelMail
Install PhotoStack
Install MovableType
Fine-tune Courier-IMAP

Fine-tune MySQL server
in no particular order.

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This is a test.

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Cannibal, as in uncivilized. Jasper has thus gained a middle name. Jasper Cannibal H.T. Chu.
He needs education, discipline and training.

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Marcus is my diving instructor. He is attached to a local diving centre (IDTC, crappy website that has the “skip” button embedded in the Flash splash page so it doesn’t register on Google and is totally unaccessible unless you have the Flash plugin installed and working properly) doing instructions for them, and runs his own [...]

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Installed it on the new coop colocation facility. It wouldn’t work. Dug into the code and did some debugging. Found and solved the problem. Sent patch to the author. Feel good.

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A colleague just forwarded an email from the American Chamber of Commerce. I include an extract here:-

The Hong Kong Harbour Fest is pleased to announce
the lineup for its opening weekend:

Prince (Friday, 17 October)
Get your tickets now for opening night, and a chance to
see one of the music world’s most [...]

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So much to read, so little time. RSS comes to the rescue. No waiting for websites to load. No long bookmark list. Easy to see when a website has been updated.

As shown here, the full glory of dpreview.com’s RDF in NetNewsWire Lite. It is long overdue I say.

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I took up the CityDesk upgrade offer and the Lady is now running the Professional Edition of CityDesk 2.0. Sadly, her website has not grown by much. I think a nicely designed theme/skin for her website would give her more incentive to write more.
When I recently checked out the differences between the various versions, I [...]

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I have been struggling with the installation of Courier-IMAP on a colocated OpenBSD box.
Courier-IMAP provides IMAP and POP3 services, over an SSL encrypted channel if desired. It also does MD5 Challenge-Response type of user authentication, so even if one doesn’t use SSL, no clear plain text password is transmitted. It works beautifully, when it works [...]

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One way to create static cache of dynamic contents.

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As reported here, among many sources. Rumours have it that the HKSAR Govt is paying HK$80M for the whole programme. Reminds me of the Titanic’s Band.

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