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Ken was my ex-business partner in the dot com and the dot bomb days. Haven’t spoken to him since early 2003.
A couple of years back he decided to pack everything up w/o telling anyone and moved to Zhuhai, so our parting was not entirely on excellent terms. I didn’t like the way he handled [...]

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I generally avoid going to Mongkok as much as I can. It’s just too crowded.
The Lady needed some books on Chinese language for her study. We were planning to go to the Book City in Shenzhen to look for them, but upon my old man’s recommendation we checked out Mongkok City Centre (right opposite to [...]

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Got hold of an old Sony Ericsson T610.

Reset the phone.
Switch on phone Bluetooth
Plug USB Bluetooth thingy into back of TiBook
Click on Bluetooth Connection Assistant, search device, connect
Go to iSync, add device, sync

All the phone numbers in Address Book on TiBook now also on T610
Couldn’t be easier.

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Huge box of Lego for HK$200, from Jusco Tuen Mun. He loves it.

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As in Not In My Backyard.
The new Immigrations Department Complex opposite the Cafeteria Bay will contain a detention centre, to replace the Victoria Detention Centre in Central. It will mainly house illegal immigrants, most of them young and good looking women.
The local elected District Council member called for a meeting a few weeks ago. I [...]

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As reported here and discussed here.
We have a cheap HP 3-in-1. The photocopier side is okay, and colour photocopying is convenient. The software is however crap, so the scanner side isn’t really as useful as it could be. We also got weary of the printer side: the colour cartridge that came with the printer didn’t [...]

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For some strange reasons, name changes of cities all tend to get worse. Quoting the Wikipedia on the city of Seoul, captial of the Republic of Korea:-

For people who use the Chinese language, the city has been known as 漢城 (read as Hancheng in Chinese, Hanseong in Korean). However, after months of discussion and debate, [...]

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On the left we have a bunch of a**sholes.
On the right we have another bunch of childish a**holes.
Pathetic.

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Proposed by Six Apart, and now supported by nearly everyone. The most important thing is of course, Google support.
Blog comment spam control and Turning challenge are passive ways to deter comment spams. rel=”nofollow” takes away any motives of comment spammers who do it to increase the PageRank™ of their websites. However, on its own it [...]

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Boinx Mouseposé

An essential for everyone doing demos at tradeshows, presentations, trainings or those individuals with huge and high resolution displays. Mouseposé dims the screen and puts a spotlight on the area around the mouse pointer, easily guiding the audiences attention or to quickly locate the mouse pointer.

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EOLed.
Looks like new Powerbooks are due shortly.

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The cover story in today’s HKET ITTimes is Education via the Internet. There is an article on the RTHK eTVonline website, claiming 1.5M visits per day. However, I find some of their practices strange. I paraphrase Ms Chan, the Website Manager, from the article:-

All the programmes used to be available for download for free, but [...]

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I bought one yesterday. Very nice computer. Spent some time to install all the software I need to put it into a usable state.
Software installed: Firefox (w/ Littlefox theme and Web Developer extension), Thunderbird, putty, WinSCP, jEdit, Daemon Tools (so I can mount the Starcraft CD image and play some RTS game), Office 2003 Pro [...]

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Dinner w/ the Lady and Jasper at La Casino, a very nice restaurant near the Pearl Island roundabout on Castle Peak Road, not too far from where we live. The place was less than half full, and very nice. The waiters were attentive but not overwhelming. Food was quite okay. Will definitely go again.

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The PCCW is selling a TP X40 (1.4GHz, 512MB RAM, 40GB HD, Bluetooth, WiFi a/b/g) for HK$13,488, w/ 12 month interest free credit card instalment. Comes with XP Home only thou.
Very tempted indeed.

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“He left quietly, and is finally free.”

Zhao, a tragic character in modern Chinese history, died today. RIP.

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Ordered w/ the help of Ah Leung a 12” iBook, 1G RAM and the Bluetooth option, all for HK$10,600. Can’t do credit card installment plan thou, but this is alright. Might well get it all paid for in one go. However, there is a stock shortage, so the machine won’t be available until next week.
Won’t [...]

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Apple has been busy, and it is now major pay off time.
You have to give it to the Apple designers. The iPod shuffles is just elegant. At HK$780 for the 512MB model, they are going to sell a boat load of them.
In the land of cheap self and shop assembled PC clones where macho men [...]

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The other day I picked up a copy of the GTD book from the Dimocks at IFC. I tried to buy a cheap copy from YesAsia but gave up with the torture disguised as a sign up process.
The book is well written. The Tickler File alone is well worth the price of the book plus [...]

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Visit foreign places. Learn a foreign language. Pick up a new hobby. Do PT. Learn scuba diving or hang gliding or parachuting. Pick up extreme sports. Go hiking. Attend Dinner for Six. Throw dinner parties at home. Read a book. Do photography or videography. Start an affair. Raise a kid.
Anything but watching TV on that [...]

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