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Our HP All-in-One (scanner, printer, photocopier) died a few days ago. The plastic print head guide strip came off. It could be relatively easy to fix, but my attempts to put the guide strip back to make it work have been unsuccessful.
The Lady virtually gave up printing w/ it when she discovered that ink for [...]

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My friend and colleague Stephen gave up on his Motorola A1000, and initially bought an HP iPAQ h6300, for the reason that he was very happy w/ his previous iPAQ. The design of the h6300 is excellent on paper, as the snap-on thumb-board works rather well. However, it pretended to have sent out SMSes, but [...]

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I took delivery of a 512MB iPod Shuffle last week, ordered via the online Apple Store.
As it is a gift for the Lady, I tried to set it up for her Dell running WinXP, but couldn’t get it to work. I gave up and plugged the device into my TiBook. It just works.
The Lady had [...]

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I have meant to write about this excellent comic-anime for a long time. The universe in the story is tight and interesting, and the story is dark, complex and fast paced. Educational for kids as well: losing your younger brother and your leg/arm (can’t remember which) in one experiment gone horribly wrong, and you are [...]

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Do they?

the majority of the world will first experience the internet through their mobile phones

I bloody well hope not, ‘cos I am not so sure that the majority of the world would be too thrilled by the experience.
Sear number isn’t everything, as you would otherwise believe that the life of a cockroach would be better [...]

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Wikipedia needs your help. Two days and they are over 25% towards the target.
The best US$100 I spent last year. If you missed it last year, go do it now.

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in Macau since yesterday w/ the Lady and Jasper. Staying at a friend’s place. Going back home on Sunday.
Weather is pretty crappy, w/ some light drizzles.

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Novell has just released their NetMail server as open source, and started the Hula project. Seems to be a powerful IMAP server, among other things. I might look into running it on mother.
Meanwhile, groupware is out and social software is far more useful. I couldn’t agree more.

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I visited an Apple shop the other day, fully prepared to pick up a Mac Mini, with my credit card in my hand. The shop only had a demo unit, which crashed when I launched Garage Band. The shop assistant told me that you’d have to order the Mac Mini, and it will take two [...]

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From Russell, Nokia licenses Macromedia Flash Lite. Russell also bought a license for Flash Lite 1.1 for US$10.
Huh? Not a freebie? No free upgrade? Well I believe problems with the Nokia 6600, a popular Series 60 Smartphone, were never resolved, so fat chance.
Macromedia charges for the player to cover development costs and distribution costs for [...]

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Wikipedia is good. Wikipedia is slow.
If this proposal comes into fruitition, Wikipedia will no longer be slow.
I for one welcome our Google overlords.

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I have always been interested in forum/discussion software, and held the opinion that Usenet-style newsgroup is as good as they get. I didn’t like web-based forums for their relatively low usability and interactiveness, as for these it is hard to beat good native clients such as Xnews or Thunderbird.
Russell Beattie is an expert in [...]

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Kung Hei Fat Choi!

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Q: How do you boost your Google PageRank™ to promote your presumably genuine website?
A: Whenever your write on a topic, google for a few keywords, seek out blogs that take trackbacks, and ping them all.
I have just received such a ping to my recent entry on the new 12-inches AlBook. The pinging entry contains a [...]

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I am fairly pleased with my new Kowe mini folding fingernail clipper bought at a local outdoor equipment for around HK$50. It is tiny and fits on my keyring perfectly. Comes with a leather-ish shealth that fits the clipper tight so it wouldn’t come off easily.
Now I could annoy the hell out of everyone on [...]

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Just played w/ Style Master Demo. It comes with an excellent tutorial on CSS. Definitely worth checking out.

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For personal reaons I had to send some important documents to Macau via courier on Friday. My employer enjoys deep discounts w/ Fedex so I called up their customer service. HK$64.XX, but it wouldn’t arrive until the 8th according to their computer!
Made some enquiries with the Post Office’s SpeedPost. Both members of staff of the [...]

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People who claimed to be from Octopus called my mobile a few times over the last couple of weeks. For the first two times the chick was reading from a long script which obviously wasn’t getting to the point after 15 seconds. When I interrupted she refused to tell me what she wanted, but insist [...]

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Mr Ho W.T. 2004 LegCo Election Candidate. Member of the Hong Kong Democratic Party. Some of his party comrades can’t even go into mainland China. Yet merely a month or two before the election, he went to Dongguan, and invited a female of questionable occupation into his hotel room, three o’clock in the morning. Incredibly [...]

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I received a couple of invitation to join SMS.ac. I didn’t like what I saw, so cancelled my account almost immediately.
Turns out that it’s a scam.

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