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Just got an unsolicited call on my mobile from a chick, who claimed to be from “Wo-Kee Telecom”. I told her I had never used their services. She went on to tell me that they have some special monthly plans for mobile phones.
Wouldn’t Hutchison be using one of their trade marks for their mobile network, [...]

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The Panasonic new DMC L1 4/3 DSLR with a big Leica Vario-Elmarit is quite attractive.

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Delicious Library. You just hold up the object and align the barcode with the red lines. It automatically reads the barcode and looks the item up somewhere from the Internet magically and records it in your database.
A lot of fun. Not that I am going to run a library and start lending out my stuff.

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One advantage of my new iMac over the TiBook is that, the power button is now at the back.
When I use my TiBook, often Jasper would come up and press the power button quickly. Out pops this dialog box asking whether I want to shutdown or whatever. Fun for Jasper, and a bit annoying for [...]

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Me: bad cough. A whole bottle of that ethnic cough syrup made of termite nest didn’t help much, and the cough just wouldn’t clear up. I had to go see the doctor again (third time in the last few days).
Jasper: bad cough. Away from nursery for two days. There seems to be an outbreak at [...]

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is difficult to read.
The Professor suggested us to read Chapter 5 of the book, in which Polanyi threw some ground-breaking light on the market as described by Adam Smith in his The Wealth of Nations.
Much of Chapter 5 (except the bit about Australian aborigines preferring robbery and piracy to trading) was incomprehensible when taken out [...]

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is inevitable.

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on Qing History last Thursday, on the Boxer Rebellion.
A cult movement that went out of hand, thanks to the stupidity of the Qing government, and people died.
Well the CCP classified it as a “patriotic movement” and an “anti-colonial movement”, and much had been written by historians in mainland China. We had to discuss and [...]

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on commercial history during the Ming and Qing dynasties last Tuesday.
Q: Devise an investment plan for a capital of 10,000 taels of silver, for the beginning and mid Ming dynasty and the end of Qing dynasty.
We had the information that during the Ming dynasty, loan interest rate of 2% per month to 5% per month [...]

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Wipe your genes out from the gene pool! Lock your hyperactive 10 year old in a luggage case.
Sigh…

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Dr Khan was a PhD student while I was at university. He was from Pakistan, and a devoted Muslim, who prayed many times a day, often in the office he shared with 2 other PhD students. He was a very nice person, and we all liked him. Rumours had it that he was a Mujahedin [...]

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I have had it for a few days now. Couldn’t be happier.
I was struggling for a whole day with printing to my networked laser printer. The key is to figure out what the parameters are for setting up the printer queue. None of the ”/printers/hl5150d”, ”/hl5150d” and “hl5150d” worked. Finally I tried “printers/hl5150d” and bingo! [...]

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Let there be dual core.

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