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We are in the process of migrating some of our users to the excellent Google Apps, which BTW I am very impressed.
This is a short screencast I did with SnapzProX, in Cantonese, showing how to import existing emails from a POP3 server. REMEMBER use your own account names and passwords!!

Enjoy.

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Previously running under Apache+PHP4 and then very briefly under Apache2+PHP5. I think I am settling on lighttpd+PHP5.
No noticeable performance improvement that I can tell, althou the site should seem a little slower overall, ‘cos this blog is now hosted in an overseas VPS.
Check Google on getting lighttpd to work with PHP5 using FastCGI (CGI is [...]

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I took the trip out to Mongkok on Sunday morning to visit this fine shop and got the HP-35s.
It’s a beauty. Nice keys. Tons of features and functions. It comes with a real user manual. I couldn’t be happier.

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Sister-in-law lives in a public housing estate, and the neighbouring unit is occupied by a single lad who ignored basic cleaning duties of his flat so it became a cockroach dent. Roaches migrated en masse to the next-door unit (occupied by a retired senior couple) and across the corridor. The retired couple’s unit was totally [...]

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Video camera, sound recorder, word processor, networked computer. The OLPC (or something similar) will change the world.

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Check out those civic events near the old Central Star Ferry Pier, this Friday, Saturday, the coming Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Sure beats watching TV.

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Extract of the late Douglas Adam’s book Last Chance to See regarding the Baiji Dolphin.

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I hate the Apple keyboard that came with my iMac. It’s mushy and hard at the same time and I simply didn’t like typing on it, so I am using an IOGEAR Wireless Keyboard, which has rather nice laptop-type keys. The USB Receiver and mouse charging station is however hideous, and sticks out like a [...]

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Carrie Lam set out to meet the protesters at the Queen’s Pier to communicate with them. The majority of the media has praised Carrie Lam for “going into the tiger’s lair”, and the HKSAR Police Force declared their clearing of the Queen’s Pier a total success.
Compared to the PLA’s most infamous mission, the HKPF has [...]

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Link. Up to ~48 hours per charge of battery, via mini USB. Comes with a 512MB SD card but can take a 2GB SD card. It doesn’t seem like it would act as a normal GPS dongle thou.
Still, probably beats the Sony GPS Dongle.

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Last Friday. The venue was so-so. We really should be going to a cheap-ish buffet dinner next time.
The folks went drinking after dinner. I was planning to go, but jumped at the chance for a lift home (hey social life does suffer a bit if you live in Tuen Mun). The ride was a very [...]

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A sample.
I seem to have misplaced my dust-blower. Crap.

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I was reading this review of the Fujitsu SnanSnap S500m, which brought my attention to DEVONthink Pro Office. The software stores all your PDF files (plus other file types) and indices them all. The “Office” version has a built-in OCR engine to convert images into text for indexing. I wish I knew about the Office [...]

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A friend of my brother’s has recently had his credit card stolen and used to buy a cheap laptop computer worth around HK$5K. The bank is demanding the card owner to pay up.
Let’s face it, signatures are easy to forge. I remember having read on the Internet quite some time ago about not signing your [...]

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I don’t care too much about the Queen’s Pier. I have used it a few times to broad cruise boats, and that is all the links or memory (however vague) I have with the place.
My heart is however with those folks fighting for its preservation. These folks aren’t doing it for their own monetary interest. [...]

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梁文道:給林鄭月娥的一封公開信

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