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Panasonic’s new HD videocams. 3 CCDs, but only tiny 1/6”, which means low light performance is going to suck.
Not to mention that the AVCHD codec is still poorly supported. On the Mac, one could use Final Cut Pro 6.0.1 (but only on a MacPro) or Voltaic, but note that it takes 12x real time to [...]

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Seagate plans to stop manufacturing IDE drives by year end. That could mean no more IDE replacement drives in a couple of years’ time. Maybe it’s time to consider upgrading those HD casings. The next lot of HDs in Mother will likely be SATA.

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the pragmatic, unhysterical approach of the new Prime Minister has suited the country well.

If this is a national disaster, I’m a tomato.

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Logitech V270 Bluetooth Mouse available from Wanchai Computer Centre for HK$440. One more free USB port on my iMac.
(Update 27/7): The Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 5000 is definitely more accurate than the Logitech, which uses IR for movement sensing.

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Reader’s Digest’s social experiment. For some reasons I am not totally surprised that Hong Kong was right at the bottom, only recovering 13 out of 30 phones, and one particular incident involving a private security guard was NOT PRETTY AT ALL.

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Seamless transfer of pictures, videos, podcasts, music, and files between your Nokia mobile device and your Mac. Yes, from iTunes and iPhoto. Link.

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This is not for the government to judge. Link.
As long as people are still watching the crap on local TV, there is no hope.

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Link.

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Save your money for a real charity, not this bunch of losers. Via reality, 呼籲：抵制7月25日明光社賣旗活動.

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Latest news on the OLPC.
Just roll them out! Pay for two and get one, or pay for three and get one, whatever. I’ll take two.
To kids the OLPC is about education. To the inner geek in me and the millions of real geeks, this is about kickstarting a new computing environment. Windows and Unix-like (including [...]

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Dinner w/ the Lady’s friends last night at this place. Been there once a few months ago for lunch and loved it. Dinner was just as good. Very reasonable price (10 of us, 9 treating the Birthday Girl, came to HK$74 per head). The icy drinks are nice-no ice cubes, but Slurpee-like ice.
Right opposite to [...]

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(Written earlier.)
I am not sure everyone have grokked the reason for the iPhone’s success.
If you lay out a table of features comparing various “convergent” devices (i.e. the feature-p*ssing contest) then nope the iPhone isn’t that impressive. No 3G data, no Bluetooth stereo profile for music, and no 4-bands for networks everywhere. People complained about the [...]

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Not withstanding that it is brain poison, the movie is actually a lot of fun.
Next week… is it going to be Shrek 3 or Transformers?

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In recent communication with some Taiwanese associates, it has occurred to me that they have no concept of meta-. They would understand the business of offering a service for say telephone booking of plane tickets and show tickets, but it would appear that they couldn’t understand the simple concept of running a call centre.

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My previous scientific calculator was the HP-28C, which was great. I should have, but never picked up the real classic HP-15C.
The new HP-35s. Must buy!
Update (18/7): Got a reply from HP Hong Kong on my enquiry. The gem will be launched in Hong Kong at the end of the month, and will be available from [...]

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Oiwan of Inmediahk is on Boing Boing!
(16:13): Update on Inmediahk, with response from photographer of the linked photo, showing a conspiracy of Flickr/Yahoo!
There is always Zooomr, which has adopted a strong stance against censorship. Fingers crossed thou.
(12/7 11:21): A more complete story on Boing Boing.

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Link. Moron.
I doubt that I’ll ever be called for juror duty thou.

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A real aristocrat. Link, and the Wikipedia entry.

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