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Saw the Nikon D70 Kit at the local Fortress for under HK$9K. Very tempting. Defeated by temptation.

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Went to a meeting of headphone and music lovers this evening. I rather enjoyed it.
Got to audition a Walker PPA, a highly portable version of the PPA, and like it a lot.
Auditioned the AKG K-1000. SUPER SWEET. Listed at US$1,195, and an absolute bear to drive (i.e. expensive headphone amplifier required) this is something way [...]

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Another ex-NPCer is expecting new family members in May 2005—-yes, fraternal (i.e. non-identical) twins. So far all ex-NPCers we know have had boys, so statistically it is going to be a pair of boys.
As some people consider it bad luck to talk about pregnancy at the early stage, so I am saying no more. Congratulation [...]

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Mother was running OpenBSD 3.3, which is now over two years old. Over the last couple of weeks I installed the latest shining OpenBSD 3.6 and all of the necessary software onto a HD, and on Saturday I swapped it into mother and migrated the data over to the new system.
I expected to spend only [...]

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Those were the days of our lives,
bad things in life were so few,
those days are all gone now
but one thing is true,
when I look,
and I find,
I still love you.

24/11 was the day when Freddie Mercury passed away, 13 years ago.

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Well it’s a couple of seeds at the moment, but if nature has its way, the seeds are going to germinate. Jasper is supposed to bring this back to school in a week’s time and share it with his classmates.

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Rejoice!
Demand is so high, mozilla.org is very slow at the moment. I have gotten the Win32 version from Bittorrent, and the GPG signature of the file appears to be in order and matches the one of a Mozilla developer.
A lot of the mirrors aren’t updated yet, so this is a real bummer for a lot [...]

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OpenBSD 3.6 has been released. I purchase the official CD set on every other release and bought 3.5, so this round I needed to download it and create my own boot CD. This is actually relatively straightforward if one isn’t scared of the command line. Mind you, cdrecord the Unix command line CD burning software [...]

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Beizer curve is cool.
SVG is cool.
Sodipodi is cool.

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A reader on BoingBoing said,

As a British citizen, I just can’t understand why. Does the British media unfairly portray Bush, or are more than half of American voters just fucking stupid?

Another term for Bush means that U.S. armed forces are going to be tied up in Iraq for a long time. The PLA will have [...]

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This is the 2nd year I take flu shots. Before then for a couple of years I was getting nasty flus each year that knocked me out for a whole week. The flu shots did help a bit last year, as I was only knocked out for a few days. This year I got sick [...]

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