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My next desktop computer.

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I have had the misfortune to go to this “new style” Hakka restaurant in Tuen Mun Town Centre yesterday.
The food was edible. It was fairly crowded but I have seen worse. The biggest problem was the noise level. There was no fake ceiling in the main hall, so all the noise was bounced back into [...]

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Been working on the infrastructure for our blog-related project. Decisions have to be made. The immediate (and probably final) being what sorts of source code control management system to use. CVS has the major advantage that the WordPress developers use it themselves, but Subversion is just far more powerful and probably easier to use. I [...]

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I enjoyed it. Althou I have to admit that the final big monster was kinda crap.

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I have been using my Gmail account for about six weeks now. I like it a lot. I would go as far as saying that it is so overwhelmingly better than any of the other free (or otherwise) webmail systems out there in their present form. OddPost (which isn’t free, and is no longer accepting [...]

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for Virtual Girlfriend, and the whole world is laughing at it.

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the movie is doing very well at the box office. The Lady pointed out that, a lot of people will be buying Labrador Retriever puppies from pet shops.
Most people in Hong Kong do not have the space for big dogs. Most people in Hong Kong do not have the time for highly intelligent dogs like [...]

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was supposed to start showing in the cinemas on or around 20/8. I was therefore quite shocked to see the DVD and VCD for this movie on Saturday.
Me too cheap, so I am going to rent it, possibly on DVD.

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The Lady didn’t like the Viewsonic 17” CRT. It doesn’t do 1280×1024 at a decent refreshing rate, and is nowhere as sharp as what the Lady is now used to, so we picked up the Philips on Sunday. It is actually slightly sharper than the old Topcon 17” LCD.
It is actually a well-designed product. In [...]

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About half finished prototyping a CSS skin for a web project. Now I am waiting for a bunch of graphics fit for production use from the project leader. I didn’t like the design itself very much, but I am just the codemonkey. The important thing is that now I know CSS much better, and am [...]

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I was out and about this afternoon at Tuen Mun Town Centre checking out the latest gadgets.
One shop was selling an iPod mini for ~HK$2,400. Go next door to Fortress and you can buy a 3rd generation 15GB iPod for about the same price. Go two floors down to Broadways and you can get a [...]

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Turning an urban legend into a thriller w/ twist, throwing in a fair bit of high heel fetish, with two excellent actresses, KOMA was well made. However, like fear itself being illogical, the story has logical holes so big one could drive a truck thru.

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Just got back from Macau a few hours ago. We left Zhong Shan on Friday morning and took a bus to Macau to attend some friends’ baby boy’s one month old banquet and visit some other friends.
Macau is indeed doing very well. Very difficult to get a taxi these days, and a Macau taxi licence [...]

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Big thunderstorm yesterday afternoon, so we were stuck in the flat watching the TV. We have the local cable, so there are 40 channels, but we all know that number of good things to watch on TV is not directly proportional to the number of channels. The former is more like constant, and approaching zero.
I [...]

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It has been nearly two years since I last visited Zhong Shan and my old man’s vacation home there. I went together with mum and the Lady when she was half way thru her pregnancy. Since then she was either too massive to move about, or Jasper was too young to travel.
There has been tons [...]

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The SCMP reported last week that all iPod Minis in Hong Kong were sold out within a few hours.
Well on Saturday afternoon I was out and about in Central. Saw a couple in Fortress. So it seems that the best thing to do if you want one is to call up Fortress.

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1,700 shows, 25,000 individual performances.
Jeffrey Archer’s Prison Diary Hell, Guantanamo Baywatch, My Life As a Ten-Year-Old Boy aka Bart Simpson, and not to forget, Puppertry of the Penis.
Opening this weekend, as reported by the BBC.

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Tom (market cap HK$6.88B) has switched from the GEM board to the HKEX main board, and has been running full page and front page ads in the papers for the last few days.

This morning’s ad in the papers however leaves a lot to be desired. The design is tasteless, and the finely designed tom logo [...]

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Jasper loves cars. One of the side mirrors of his big 4WD was snapped off, tearing a small part of the door with it, creating some sharp edges, so I stopped him from playing it, pending my repair, which I feel guilty and admit that my repair has been pending for two weeks now.
Chances have [...]

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Henri Cartier-Bresson died on Tuesday at the age of 95. English translation.
RIP.

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