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but should “offer positive solutions” you could quote Gary,
bq.. It reminds me of a drunk driver waking up to find himself at the wheel of his friend’s new car, now wrapped around a tree. His buddies are screaming at him, every name in the book, and he says, “Oh, it’s easy to criticize, but where [...]

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do you still have your data with you?
First the earthquake knocked out a few fiber optics. Access to GMail was problematic for a couple of days. GTalk was out for a few days for me, and email was not deliverable to gmail.com for a couple of days from mother. At of yesterday afternoon, some folks [...]

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at work, after about a week’s outage.
Maybe it’s time to consider running my own Jabber server.

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Apparently, the earthquake in Taiwan last night has affected the cables connecting Hong Kong and the rest of the world, and the network is now so overloaded there is no IDD call and no Google. Crap.

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Edward S.T. Ho vs the people.
I assume that the Star Ferry Affair was not on the agenda, so Edward Ho probably considered himself over-delivering by agreeing to meet Maggie and company, and I would not blame him for delivering the official line and NOT going beyond his power.
Ho will be 70 in 2008 (born in [...]

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or what was left of it… Via 天星開步 人民規劃, link to the movie.
I am not sentimental at all about the Star Ferry Pier, and my only complaint is that the new pier is so far away from everything else in Central. I am however impressed with what the folks are doing. Propaganda is no [...]

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For the last few days I have been listening to At17’s Live CD of their latest performance at the AsiaWorld-Expo.
There is no question that there is a big generation gap (more like a few big gaps) between the At17 duo and this old fart here, so how come I enjoy it so much? While I [...]

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News of people taking their precious lives, it happens to someone we know. It was quite shocking to learn that the sister of a long-time friend and her husband had just made the decision to end their lives. My message of condolence went out at the first instant.
We should not be judgmental when it comes [...]

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The fine folks at Zooomr has upgraded my account to Pro4Life as a gesture of goodwill, as they supposingly lost some of my photos last time their machines crashed. I certainly ain’t complaining.
If you are a blogger, you can get a Pro account for free. I think Zooomr has a lot of potential. Their site [...]

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As far as I am concerned, folks going into the Star Ferry were just far too late, as everybody saw it coming back when Winston Tsui was fighting for the Victoria Harbour.
It doesn’t matter however. The Hong Kong people are not used to taking part in our civic duties, but it is never too late. [...]

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On Simon Willison’s new weblog. Link. This has serious potential.

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We went over to Hac Sa in Macau to visit the CUHK team at work. Prof Tang was kind enough to allow us into the pit and showed us how to “shave” off a tiny layer of dirt.
And see how I re-paid Prof Tang and his team.

Yap I caused a collapse in the pit. Two [...]

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Handing in my final assignment today marks the end of the term. The term started really well, when I was doing two courses and sitting one. Three evenings a week at lectures were just such a drag, my studies in the two credit courses and my life suffered, so I promise myself not to do [...]

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Link. Highly recommended.

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I got hold of a nice surplus Dell big desktop (more like a desk-under) from the office. It’s old but in very good condition. Some sub-2GHz P4 that takes Rambus(!) RAM. It comes with 256MB and I doubt very much I’ll bother acquiring more to put in. Perfect timing to replace my old PII home [...]

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When Science Meets Faith – New Milestones in the 21st century
December 15, 2006 (Friday) and December 16, 2006 (Saturday)
Organizers: Hong Kong Christian Scholarship Forum
Graduates Christian Fellowship of Hong Kong
Chaplain’s Office, Hong Kong Baptist University
Chaplain’s Office, Chung Chi College
Date: December 15, 2006 (Friday)
Time: 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Venue: Chapel, Christian Edu Center (Old Campus), Hong Kong Baptist University
Enquiries: hkcsf@fes.org.hk [...]

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