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Wilson has made a request. He will be expanding his photo library, and wants some sort of search engine for it.
My plan is to develop something generic and flexible, and adaptable to different gallery package software. It should be able to read EXIF data, grab metadata from ACDSee and iPhoto, etc. and store all such [...]

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Looks like Jasper is growing his molar. Temperature goes up and down. He doesn’t feel too good.
Google has this to say.
Update (22:22): At round 1700 Jasper’s fever hit 40 degrees C, so we took him to our GP immediately. The GP said that Jasper has got this. He was prescribed w/ some potent medicine which [...]

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O’Reilly Network: Confessions of the World’s Largest Switcher [Oct. 29, 2003]

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The HKSAR Govt made a statement on the IP rights of the Harbour Fest. This could only come from a bozo:-

AmCham devised the idea of an international entertainment festival to be held in the autumn at the Tamar site on the harbour. However, the intellectual property rights are owned by the Government. Although the Government [...]

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Thanks to James tipping me off about the special price Fortress in Mongkok has for the Palm Tungsten C, I have acquired this new toy tool, for the good price of HK$2,792.
The salesperson informed me that the Mongkok Fortress is doing special offers till 6/11/2003 on various items, to fight off the new big electronic [...]

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Hmmm… I mean “new tool”!

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I was somewhat disappointed that there is no easy way to sync a Palm device with Apple iCal or Mozilla Calendar. I was even tempted to make a crack at writing a Palm conduit to sync w/ iCalendar files (it would in fact be a worthwhile project to persue). Regardless of the fact that a [...]

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Amazon.com: Books: The Complete Far Side: 1980-1994

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Amazing.

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I hate web adverts. Enduring the advert to read the two articles in this case is however well worth it. Highly recommended.

How I decoded the human genome

One vote for the new eugenics

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Henry Tang the Financial Secretary recently commented that we shouldn’t critize the HKSAR Govt too much, and that we don’t want the HKSAR Govt to gain the bad custom of idleness to avoid blame.
TCH and his lackeys have always been saying that they want “small government, big market”. Well Mr Tang no we don’t want [...]

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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Jesus actor struck by lightning

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On marilyn my small home server I am hearing this daunting click-click-click sound from one of the two HDs (paired up as a RAID1 device). This time I am ready—-I’ll just leave it until the dying HD is dead beyond hope, pull it out, put a new one in and allow the RAID to rebuild [...]

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Use the power of the network to Change the world around you, introducing iCan, bought to you by the fine folks at the BBC.

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THEY’RE MADE OUT OF MEAT.

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as mentioned here.
Support for PDAs is a worthwhile feature. I have a Palm IIIx so this is the first device I worked on to support.
Specifications for iCalendar and vCalendar are here and here. This page gives some hints on how to manually convert an iCal file into a vCal file for importing into Palm Desktop [...]

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Link.

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Despite Napoleon having described England as a nation of shopkeepers, until a few years ago, one could not register a service mark in the U.K. for “retailing”. The U.K. Registrar of Trade Marks insisted for many years that merely shifting goods does not offer significant value and as a result the activity of retailing may [...]

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A few colleagues have photographic handsets. The novelty factor wears off rather quickly, and they tend to stop taking photos w/ their handsets one or two weeks after they have had them. None of them have played with MMS, and none of them have been able to transfer photos they have taken to another device. My sample is far too small, so statistically insignificant. However, my colleagues are without doubt typical users of mobile devices and service, and at the very least their experience has convinced me that the photographic feature of capable handsets and networks are under-utilized.

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I’ve got it all hooked up, installed the software, and sent out a couple of SMSes successfully. Pretty much plug and play. The software is very well done. It has redundancy (more than one modem for simultaneous sending as well as backup) and network provider routing (sort messages by network and send them out from [...]

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