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My iPod is with an authorized service provider for repair. So I am borrowing the Lady’s iPod Shuffle. It sounds surprisingly good. As good as my iPod.
The iPod uses a 3.7V internal rechargable battery, and I would imagine the iPod Shuffle to be using a battery of similar voltage.
The thing is, headphones and earphones work [...]

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What happened to Yin Chai was “rages of mortals and immortals”. I wonder how Donald Tsang would describe what happened to Ms Kam and the Lee twins.

We didn’t have crystal balls.

It was such a sad and poor excuse, from the SWD.
The SWD and the Police didn’t do their jobs right, and people died.

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I have no great love for the Japanese people.
Being a close neighbour, they are a competitor, and they are good. It is worth knowing your enemy. To know your enemy, you need to know their culture, how and what they think, and how their minds work. You need to know their language.
From a historian’s, [...]

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Although you no longer need an invitation to get a Gmail account, as long as you have a U.S. mobile number.
However, from the poor response I get from my GTalk invitations, it’s either not that many gmail accounts created with my invitations are in active use, or that people don’t care about yet another IM [...]

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