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I was reading Ben Hammersley’s weblog. Brent Simmons is highly responsive to user comments. I am too cheap to pay US$40 for NetNewsWire, but am forever grateful for the Lite version, as it has served me well. I am therefore offering my HK$0.2.

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Not that it’s conclusive at his age, but Jasper appears to be left-handed. Probably got it from the Lady’s side of the family, ‘cos two of her brothers are left-handed, yet noone from my family is.
It means that he’ll need left-hand scissors. If he ever plays bowling he’ll need left-handed bowling balls. If he does [...]

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I have also just gotten a nasty common flu. High fever and bone ache. Went to see my doc and got a shot to take away the fever. Doc said the fever may return tomorrow.
We were planning to go to Macau to visit some friends on Friday. I doubt I can go. Bummer.

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This Avian Flu outbreak is very worrying.
So it’s KFF not KFC in Vietnam.

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My TiBook battery deterioated to a stage that it would only hold about half an hour of charge. I would have had the machine for two years in April, so althou I am not a heavy battery user this particular battery has been with me for a good 20 months. I don’t think I should [...]

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We want to go see HKPO x Sandy x Anthony. We normally go to concerts w/ Sylvian and Man, but they will be flying to Japan to see Bowie.
Just found out that Bowie will actually be in Hong Kong at the CEC on 14/3, and tickets are supposed to be on sale on 19/1, but [...]

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I was once told that it is interesting to see how human intelligence develops in small childen.
Jasper is now 16 months old. He loves watching his Uncle Michael playing games on the PS2, and he tries to interact w/ the game console. He actually gets to play w/ a couple of game controllers Uncle Mike [...]

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Died after a car crash, at the age of 83, as reported by the BBC.

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Message entered w/ Tinderbox, posting to my MovableType blog.

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Just received an email from Netvigator informing that there is a counterfeit Netvigator billing notice email which carries a virus payload disguised as an attachment.
It might get to a point where the normal folks just stop opening attachments.
HKNet emails their bill out as an attached PDF file, which is safe to open, but folks may [...]

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Kung hei fat choi. Happy Chinese New Year.

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Bought this for mum on Saturday from Broadways. Got an additional battery, and traded up the 128MB CF card to a 256MB. The shop threw in a pair of “Astro Boy” coffee mugs.
I have pretty much made up my mind before I walked into Broadways, as mum was quite specific about what camera she wanted. [...]

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Upgrade!

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Wholala Organization on TVB’s Monday File.
In the programme, the chick was sobbing, for reasons I don’t understand. A few observations:-

The chick’s husband works in Shanghai and can only come home on weekends.
The couple is, like most “middle class” of that age, in negative equity. Their property is rented out, and she is staying w/ a [...]

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Althou the website is not updated yet, according to today’s SCMP, HKDNR will start accepting 2LD .hk domain registrations on 26 January 2004. There is no rush yet, as they will only accept trade mark owners’ applications in the first few months, followed by existing domain name owners.
tungcheehwa.hk or leungchunying.hk (hey rumours have it that [...]

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SARS is expected to return to Hong Kong in two weeks’ time, now that there is an outbreak in Guangzhou.

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A photo essay by Karen Lehrman.

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I like RSS. It allows me to check multiple websites for updates, without visiting them w/ my browser in turn. It saves time and effort.
RSS has not caught up with any of the local (read Hong Kong) websites.
I listen to To Kit’s CR1 radio programme regularly. Abstracts of his programmes are online, but difficult to [...]

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Text-to-Speech technology.

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it is true, but it has taken them at least a few hundred years to learn to do it.
I remember someone did a candid camera type of thing on a “misplaced” wallet in a busy street in Hong Kong. The result wasn’t pretty at all.

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