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The PPA is probably the best DIY headphone amplifier at this point in time. I ordered the PCB from Tangentsoft, and it took 8 days to arrive by post.
Time to start getting all the components. Looking at the PCB, it seems I’ll also need a smaller soldering iron tip.

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They are doing a fund drive. Definitely a worthwhile cause.
I have just given them US$100. Yes the service is worth many times of this amount to me: quality background info on almost any topic and anything with a touch of the fingertip.
Jasper is starting to ask “WHY”, and I am now all ready for it.
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Sylvian called me to seek advice on his Golden Arcade-assembled noname computer. The cheap DVD writer went busted after 14 months and he went out to buy a even cheaper DVD writer, but none of his standalone DVD machines could read those newly burnt DVDs. The machine kept crashing, and going off and on. He [...]

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The Lady is part of a team responsible for implementing a Quality Education Programme for this year, on getting the kids at her school to read more. They have got the government funding, and are looking in acquiring more books for their library.
Last week Joy-Shan Lam wrote an article in the HKEJ on Tin Tin, [...]

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chunky soggy boiled carrots.

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I just briefly checked out this new camera, which was only announced at the beginning of September. Love it.
The odd shape makes it much easier to grab than most other small digital cameras. This little machine felt very snappy. The screen was big, bright and lively. The rotating switch is easy to use. It is [...]

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On 24th.
The Lady bought him a small cheese cake.

He grabbed at the candle flame and burnt himself.
BTW the Canon S50 I bought for mum is an excellent camera. It has an orientation sensor and embeds the such info into the JPEG file. iPhoto read this info and rotates the photo automatically.

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Citibank called me this afternoon asking me whether I would like to put an installment plan on a previous transaction of HK$1,400. You must be joking I thought. I have previous read their new flexible installment plan leaflet: you don’t pay interest but you do plan a monthly “handling fee”, which is equivalent to an [...]

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Went for a walk with the Lady and Jasper along the beach after dinner. It was so packed. People were BBQing on the beach and on the rocks and there were no place to sit down. It was sweaty hot. Tons of swear words coming out from young boys and girls under peer pressure. It [...]

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I was listening to To Kit last night. They were talking about the idiocy of the HKSAR Govt regarding the redevelopment of the Central Police Station and Victoria Prison, and were taking the p*ss out of the so-called 1973-vintage Chinese civil servants. To Kit said that he was having lunch with an ex-civil servant (whose [...]

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Bummed into Jeff, an ex-NPCer in one of the online headphone communities. Turns out that he’s been headphoning (and probably audiophiling) and building DIY audio stuff for a few years now.
The million dollar question is, how does he get the time to play with all the toys?

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Why anybody would pay over HK$10 a pop for those awful sounding multi-chord ringtones really escapes me.
The latest bunch of mobile phones can all use MP3 files as ringtones, which beat crappy MIDI-like multi-chord ringtones hands down. However, what I have come across so far w/ people’s MP3 ringtones going off in public have been [...]

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They love to be treated badly.
I faxed and posted in my Netvigator termination form because I have no use for a 2nd broadband line anymore. I have been with them for a few years now, and have been in general quite happy with their service. I didn’t like some of their sales tactics, but I [...]

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Yeung Sum and the Democratic Party have screwed up badly, there is no question about it. With full support from two barristers they still failed to send any of their 2G party members into LegCo, and in fact managed to lose two seats. They could claim that they helped to send the two barristers into [...]

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Hifi recording from Mainland China. Some reviewers complained about a lack of emotion, but still an excellent voice nonetheless.
My only complaint is that the recording picked up the noise of the piano pedal.
This is supposed to be a better album music-wise. Maybe next time.

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Just received a call from the Lady. One of her colleague’s husband is a civil servant involved in vote counting. Apparently 30% of the votes have gone missing (in one of the voting stations?), so noone is allowed to leave, and there has been no announcement and no update since around 0330 hours.
There has been [...]

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How about the latest iMac commercial? Eat dust, Sony.
Can’t help bashing Sony whenever we get the chance can we?

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My MT blog database has gotten too big for mother to run the MT-blacklist.cgi despam script on 25 entries before timeout. It wouldn’t even do 10. Now I have to do 5 entries at a time, and it’s getting tedious.

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In the newspaper headline yesterday, there was a story about the computer of Law Chi Kwong, a Democrat, being hacked by suspected hackers from China. A Trojan was suspected.
I have been told that, these days if one installs a fresh copy of WinXP on a computer and connects it directly to the Internet without any [...]

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