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Firefox. Web Developer. IE Tab (which is a recent discovery for me: it renders a web page using the IE rendering engine, good for web development, otherwise pointless). And tons of other extensions.

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The best toy a kid could get, reviewed. Unless this kid has fallen and corrupted by consumerism and totally lacks any creativity.
Rated for the age 10+. My kid is only 4. I am however, 10+.

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Pope prepares to embrace theory of intelligent design.
The Roman Catholic Church is one gigantic institution that moves very slowly, and because of Papal Infallibility there are many things the Pope can’t and won’t say. Maybe the Guardian journalist was fooled by the wedge strategy of those neo-Creationists?

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Link. Looking really good.
I signed up and the invitation came in no time at all. I moved the email handling for one of my domains to Gmail with minimal fuss and it was working in no time since I have my own DNS server, but I suppose it wouldn’t be any harder even if you [...]

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I submitted my Euro Trip Report in last night. It is in Chinese. I have not written so much in Chinese for over 20 years. So before I uploaded it I had the Lady to read it. She made a few grammatical amendments, but said that she had no idea what I was talking about [...]

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The latest from Gary Brecher on Exile.

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IBM DB2 Express-C. It works on my Thinkpad. Very good SQL database, with decent GUI tools. Free as in beer.
I need a database for a history project I am planning to undertake. I have been forever struggling with Microsoft Access, which is actually a decent product, but I get totally confused by its terminologies and [...]

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Since my Euro Trip during which I experienced the average French diet (the main theme being no stuffing yourself) I have actually eaten less. Greasy Chinese BBQ lunch boxes from Cafe de Carol/Fairwood are becoming unbearable heavy, just as most of the other offerings.
Just had a Triple-O BC Burger. As tasteful as ever, but I [...]

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Via BoingBoing and Digg, absolutely hilarious. Must see. Link.

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is having an early summer break. A routine small operation. Brave kid.

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The Coop has just gained a capital investment of HK$1,000, which after some thoughts and discussion with one of the Coop members, I have decided to invest into another bar of 512MB to bring the total memory of mother to a whopping 1GB (WOW BFD!) and a large-ish HD to put into my home server [...]

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You may not be paranoid. It doesn’t mean that they are not out to get you.
They could bug your phone lines. They could bug your rooms. Phone aren’t secure.
Use Pretty Good Privacy, or GNU Privacy Guard.
Here is my PGP/GPG key.

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Lord Phillips of Sudbury said:-

You do not secure the liberty of our country and value of our democracy by undermining them. That’s the road to hell.

As reported by the BBC.

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I’ve just read the Chinese edition of Pluto, a new Japanese comic (manga) series, drawn by Naoki Urasawa, based on Osamu Tezuka’s Atom Boy. Check out Wikipedia’s entry.
I have not been so excited by a Japanese comic series for a long time (well, since Fullmetal Alchemist). Highly recommended.

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Well, in the U.S. of A., anyway. Link.

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These days we go the cinema only to see what we want Jasper to watch. Stuff we don’t think Jasper would be interested in or we don’t want him to see, we rent the VCDs or less often, the DVDs (VCD resolution is good enough on our 14”).
Cars: good in general, but dragged on a [...]

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as announced. No limit on number of authors or number of blogs. Free as in beer.
The only problem is, Six Apart screwed up once. Migration to Free (as in libre) software is often a one-way street, so I doubt very much this act was designed to pull people back into MT.
Now that the latest [...]

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I have finally gotten hold of all my photos (~4GB) from my 18 days Euro trip. Due to the mishap I was trying to preserve storage space and only shot RAW in difficult lighting conditions while JPEG files were the norm. I am in general quite happy with the results.
I am however still sitting [...]

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