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Like James, I don’t think too highly of this and the forthcoming generations of smartphones. (I won’t say I have given up on them—-it’s more like the other way around.)
We are used to mobile handsets which fit into trousers pockets and don’t drag down our shirt pocket. This means they have to be small—-probably smaller [...]

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James mentioned why he didn’t buy the Nokia 6600. I didn’t appreciate its problems until I went check it out yesterday.
There are two versions of 6600 available in Hong Kong: Chinese and English.
The English version has no Chinese fonts/typefaces, so it does not display Chinese SMS messages. The thing is, SMS messages are supposed to [...]

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Figure pulled from where the sun does not shine…

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I just got hold of a new Maxtor 120GB HD for the special price of HK$777 (plus any old HD to trade in, which I have a couple lying around), and installed it into marilyn my home server to replace the dead 40GB. I was reluctant to do this with a 120GB, ‘cos althou [...]

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The Fink Project puts a Debian package system on Mac OS X, allowing OS X users to install all kinds of Unix software easily. It makes life good.
The project needs more mirrors. There isn’t one in Asia. I benefit from the project, so I am tempted.
However, I only have a shared wimpy server, with [...]

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I am going to let you in for a little secret on the recent outbreak of the Norwalk virus in a primary school in the mid-levels. This is all hearsay, but from a very reliable source.

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Photo Journal: De-mining Cambodia, bought to your by the fine people from the BBC.

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We went to the Open Day of the Salvation Army Nursery just down the road from where we live this afternoon.
This nursery is popular. I like the fact that it is within walking distance, and thought that it would be neat if we could train Lily to take Jasper to nursery, so I put in [...]

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Sorry we can’t come to your birthday party. Jasper’s card and present for you are in the post. Have fun tomorrow.

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A possible reason revealed.

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Cheap N-Gages are nowhere to be found, so they must be selling quite a few, at least in Hong Kong.
I must say the Nokia 6600 is quite agreeable. Time to trade in my T68i?

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I visited the Fairwood Fast Food chainstore at the end of the road from where we live for the first time since they changed into a new corporate look.
None of the chairs match the new corporate colour. I suppose this would have to wait until they are due for replacement. From the TV advert it [...]

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It was Lau Fau San last Sunday around 1300 hours. The place was absolutely packed.

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A dishonoured judge, a flash-mob member, a nutty politician/doctor and an ExCo member, in a meeting discussing something of public interest. They were not playing mah joh or bridge. They said it was a private meeting.
I don’t think conspirators discuss their conspiracy in public.

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It runs a RAID (well, one of the HDs is now down, so technically this RAID is not redundant, but it’s just a matter of putting in a new HD and rebuilding the RAID) so it is more robust than an external HD. It is always on and available, so scheduled automatic backup is much [...]

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Most Coop members are using their ISP’s SMTP server, and not mother to send out email. No big deal really. In any case, here is a discussion on ISPs blocking incoming as well as outgoing port 25 traffic.
I am just pleased w/ HKNet my ISP.

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Ah Leung suggested using a Firewire HD as a backup device. I have one, and it is not without problems.
I bought mine solely for connecting to my TiBook as a scratch disk for video editing, dumping footages from my DV to the HD for non-linear editing with iMovie or Final Cut Express. Once I made [...]

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We were on a bus going home last nite. A lady started talking on her mobile at the top of her voice, so the whole bus must have heard her, for well over 20 minutes. The conversation was on a simple matter, but she kept repeating herself, a sign of lack of communication skill.
This is [...]

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It died 0920 hours today. RIP.
Marilyn however is still working fine. I am very pleased w/ this experiment.

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This is a test entry, posted using Zempt.

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