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Do the right thing. We’ll sing. 福佳始終有你!

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Get Directions now work! From Tuen Mun to Central. From Tuen Mun to Central, via Tsuen Wan, the West Kowloon Corridor and Hunghom Cross Harbour Tunnel. Totally wicked.
And holy smoke! It works on my SE W880i as well. Link to check if your device would work. I’ll need cheap data plan now!

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Virtual toy.

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and not with reasons. Link.

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are pouring in. Despite the hype and the unrealistic expectations, folks seem to like the device. My crystal ball/tortoise shell appears to be working.
BTW the iPhone appears to be SIM-locked, so grey imports probably won’t work here.
And check out the call plan, which I am sure all local mobile phone operators would love.
I have a [...]

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My note on Fernand Braudel’s suggestion that Siamese attacks of the Angkor Wat disrupted production of the rice-fields, thereby releasing the destructive force of malaria, causing its eventual abandonment.
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending a lecture by Dr Sergey Lapteff, a Russian archaeologist working in Japan and Indochina, specializing in Cambodia. [...]

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From Collapse by Jared Diamond, on the Maya Collapse:-

Core bored into layers of sediments at the bottoms of Maya lakes yield many measurements that led us infer droughts and environmental changes.

... around A.D. 760 there began the worst drought in the last 7,000 years, peaking around the year A.D. 800, and suspiciously associated with the [...]

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Photo taken on 1 June 2007. Banner already taken down, and a new one on a different issue was put up. Beatrice’s own version of the story.

This has me totally scratching my head: I couldn’t imagine why anyone would be so dumb to object to having sea burials nearby. The local custom is for the [...]

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V is about to visit Spain. While Bilbao is way out up in NE Spain, I would highly recommend it.
Modern art to me was something boring and meaningless and those artists were just pretentious snobs. Well what did I know, until I visited the Guggenheim last summer. Modern art to me is an art form [...]

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The Textile2 plugin doesn’t work with utf8 characters. Fortunately Textile1 under the Text Control plugin works. Hurrah!

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from Samsung. Yes I want one in my next laptop computer. The extra cost is well worth it, for longer battery life and robustness.

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Via 中央聖學子, the local hip magazine Milk has been caught plagiarising, yet their editor Gary shamelessly denied.

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I decided to make the final jump. Even got the old individual blog posts under MT redirecting to the new blog entries in WP as described by Alex King’s excellent MT template. Most of these work, althou so far I have found that for some strange reasons a zooomr.html post when being imported into WP [...]

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Supplies are limited, and we’re starting out with attractive people only. We’ve hired screeners for Apple and AT&T retail outlets. Ha ha Fake Steve is just cruel and a total snob.
Funny as it is in Hong Kong it’s the plain-looking middle age women who use the latest hottest mobile phones. I have a new tiny [...]

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你是半個電視廣告迷﹗你有67分，看來某程度上你是半個電視廣告迷吧！你喜歡看電視之餘，也有留心電視節目之間所播放的廣告。得到這樣的分數，也許只是有些不太突出的廣告你沒有留意。沒關係的，這不是你的錯，是廣告商拍攝得不夠吸引罷了！：）老餅廣告測試
The thing is, we didn’t have a telly at home when I was in secondary school. The old man said giving up telly would be good for us all.

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Excellent article. Link.

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The Queen’s Pier is on its last leg. A bunch of folks are camping on/in it, but they are certainly no match to the HKP and the bulldozers, so it is a matter of time before they are all removed from the site. Meanwhile, there are already two short clips on YouTube recording what is [...]

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Simple. Binary. Revealing. Public opinion. Photo.

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The will and an act against a condemned traditional practice led to an opportunity for people to speak out, and reasoning prevailed. From the BBC.

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Last night we had a very pleasant dinner at a local restaurant in Macau. About six middle age Thai ladies came into the same restaurant and tried to order some food to take away, but none of the staff could speak English (the menu was in Portuguese). I helped these ladies out. The staff were [...]

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