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“What to do with such peoples?” I am not so sure that the Prime Directive is practical on Earth, for reason of the relatively small size of the planet, as well as the important question as to what we would consider as “primitive society”.

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“Shipping in October”, but it seems I am not getting mine until November. Crap.

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617 for our friend Dai Si?
Checking out the specs, probably not… Logistics wise, 120 film seem to beat this hands down. Mind you, good luck w/ getting ASA/ISO 10,000 from film.

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Details. Only for the next couple of days, so act quick!
Let’s see: EMC Retrospect Desktop for Mac is US$119, Norton Ghost 10.0 (Windows only) is US$69. SuperDuper! is less than US$30, and IMHO SuperDuper! is da best. If you are so cheap to pay US$30 (10% discount or otherwise) then you deserve what WILL [...]

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V was offered HK$40/hour to stay w/ her ex-employer. Her manager made it sound like a very respectable figure.
InMediaHK has an article on minimum wage. The pro-minimum wage folks want the minimum wage set at HK$30/hour, and their method for calculating this figure, taking social security benefits1 into account, seems reasonable.
My question: is 33% above [...]

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Went thru the car park downstairs this morning at around 0805 on my way to work, like I normally do. Saw this guy polishing his MJ-registration (fairly new I suppose) BMW 3 Series hatchback (Ti I think?).
Modern cars come with this very good layer of hard polish done at the factory that is supposed to [...]

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My friend Chris in London has a Xsara Picasso, which doesn’t look too good, but is very spacious and I think probably one of the best family cars.
Citroen car show in Tuen Mun Town Centre today. I jumped into the driver seat of a C3 Pluriel, while a salesman was doing the sales pitch w/ [...]

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Send it back.

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Pentax DA 70/f2.4 Limited, via DPreview.
Only if I shoot Pentax DSLR. And why is it not in champagne colour, like all the previous Limited lenses?

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The new Oly E-400. Totally adorable. Oh, and strap eyelets, nice!

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Link to Chinese Wikinews.
The Leader Si was saying that the people would surround the President’s residency. Well I certainly would love to see the Seige of Jericho.

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Bought a burger (nice standard burger, and not as OTT as the BC Burger) from Triple-O of Exchange Square for lunch. There was this cashier Anne (who sadly didn’t serve me), with ace language ability, nice big smile and most pleasant, helpful and approachable attitude. It was like a breath of fresh air.
Star employees like [...]

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of any iPod, ever. The 2nd generation iPod nano, with brush metal casing. And WOW the new iPod Shuffle. I have already ordered one from the Apple Store, and I hope the internal amplifier is anything like the previous iPod Shuffle.
Oh, finally, gapless playback. Update: gapless playback is a new feature of iTunes, so once [...]

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sf’s blog entry reminds me to check out the core course of this year. I did the English course last year and throughly enjoyed it.
There are some major changes this year. Prof Cheung’s Chinese Empires and Canals on 22/11 is new, and should be interesting. I suspect it is something about the two occasions when [...]

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I was in Tuen Mun Jusco this afternoon, and found a “specimen” box of the new Mindstorm NXT. According to the sales person (who made a call to someone higher up) it will be available this week, probably on Thursday, for HK$2990. Now there is a 50% premium (US$249 from the Lego Shop) so I [...]

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There is a two-part article on Singapore, written by a Singaporean in Chinese. I have no idea whether this is atypical of Singaporeans.

Harry Lee… attempted to create a new “Singapore People” to replace the original ethnics in Singapore…

The creation of a new people should not be unfamiliar to the Chinese people, because it happened not [...]

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We paid a visit to Mingo’s Headphone Club (the shop) yesterday. Very interesting idea, and a great range of headphones, amplifiers etc. to play with.
I like the MEIZU Miniplayer M6, which is nice, thin, has a big screen (for its size) and sounds okay. It’s also cheaper than the iPod Nano and has more features, [...]

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Officially on Monday, but my first lecture was yesterday.
We switched over to 5-day week, and the office hour is extended by half an hour, so we don’t get off work until 1800. No way I could get from Central to Shatin in half an hour. Good thing that the boss is allowing me to practise [...]

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Wow, 24” of goodness. Core 2 Duo w/ 64-bit support.
Sometimes I wish I had gone for the 20” iMac myself. But then it would be quite a bit bigger than my 17” iMac, which is just about perfect in size for my household.
A friend said he didn’t want an all-in-one, ‘cos he couldn’t get a [...]

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in the Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral.

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