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Photo from a few weeks back.

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I took Jasper to see the Impressionism exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art this morning, together w/ my folks and Mike. We got there at around 10:30, and queued for about half an hour before we got in. HK$30 per head, HK$15 for the senior folks, and free for Jasper.
It would have been [...]

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Dell Ultrasharp LCD, for HK$9K.
Not that I have the space for it.

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Having solved the comment spam problem for this weblog w/ a CAPTCHA plugin once and for all, the damned spammers are returning w/ trackback spam.
Bastards.

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Discovery team member Roberts scoffs at the notion that travel caused all the damage: “Like the addition of a glued-on chin?”

Moron!

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Virus scanner is a necessity in the Wintel environment.
My Thinkpad X40 came w/ Norton Antivirus 2004, but last week it told me that it would expire in April and asked me to renew my subscription. You stingy git! AVG (which the Lady’s computer is running) and Avast! both have free offerings and are arguably better, [...]

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There was an article in Monday’s HKEJ on Gu Lang Yu 鼓浪嶼. Apparently the govt is going to turn it into a low density tourist island, by:-

shutdown public facilities such as schools and hospitals to inconvenient the locals so they would move out,
only allow people to move out but not in and

major investment in [...]

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has just opened on L3 of the IFC, and a coupon for a free cup of ILLY coffee is going around the office via email.
Being a sucker for Free freebies, I visited their shop and claimed it. To be honest I think they should stick to selling ice-cream.
If I were to do the freebie properly, [...]

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On kuro5hin.

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Just received my last batch of Kodachrome slides today. I sent the roll off to Switzerland on 5/1/2005, so it took over two months. The UK shop closed down as my previous roll before this was sent to the UK shop but returned from Switzerland.
I am going to use a proper lightbox to view the [...]

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James polished the top side of his 17” PowerBook with car polish, but I think the Furry iBook (via Boing Boing) is just too cool.

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Flickr is to be acquired by Yahoo.
And, previously, Ask Jeeves Acquires Bloglines.

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My friend Leon called me up to ask for my opinion on turning an XBox into some sort of VoIP/PABX device and solution. He wanted to know whether he is likely to hear from Microsoft lawyers. I pointed out that (1) the XBox only has one Ethernet port and (2) thanks to Moore’s Law, they [...]

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The Hong Kong Bar has made this statement in response to the Secretary for Justise’s statement on the next CE’s supposingly 2 year term.
I hereby offer my layman’s view:-

The Common Law System assumes that everyone know the Law. The Law should therefore be comprehensible by the layman. Throwing the “legislative intent of the original design” [...]

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I took my BB line with me from my parents when I got married and moved out, and they have been w/o BB Internet since. They didn’t want any. At one time Netvigator offered to move the line to anywhere I wanted for free as well as lower the cost to ~HK$150/month (super price!) if [...]

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Bought one yesterday for HK$2,088 from an OA shop in Central. James then told me about Jumbo in MKCC selling them for HK$1,880. Oh well, I’ll have to use mine harder for it to worth the HK$200 difference then.
Make no mistake, this is not a very solid machine. It comes with a 3 year warranty [...]

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For the benefit of the very small number of owners/users of this gem who happen to read Chinese and know enough about networking to make sense of the content, I present this.
Because document scanning is now easy, thanks to this.
If you are the copyright owner of this document and unhappy about this copyright infringement, please [...]

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I have been told that kids in primary schools these days need to do their assignments w/ Microsoft PowerPoint.
There are two problems with this latest spin in school IT education:-

Why PowerPoint? Why not something better, or something free, or something cool and geeky?

PowerPoint is evil, and makes you stupid.
Public speaking is hard. PowerPoint is easy. [...]

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A monkey chimpanzee would have done a better job.

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