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Chroma key.

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WordPress 2.3 is now out. Four WP installations to upgrade. Sigh.
Update (26/9): The K2 theme (even the RC1) appears to break WordPress 2.3, giving an error about not finding the table wp_categories, so I had to roll back after upgrading one of the WP installations I maintain. Maybe it would take awhile for all the [...]

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I went to the Windsor House at CWB during lunch time, and there was already a queue on the stairs at the entrance, waiting for first sale of Halo 3 starting tonight at 2300 hours at the big toy shop there. These ain’t kids. Fscking unbelievable. Actors?

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Very interesting and insightful comment.

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I borrowed the book from the library. I read it online. Now the author wants a small favour.
Happy to oblige. Check out the best online Common Lisp tutorial.

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Follow up w/ the Centralize No-call List project, I did a little benchmark on phone lookup using python, running on my wimpy old Thinkpad X40.
It takes a little under 0.08s to perform a search for a single item in 988,889 items, around 10% of all the mobile phone numbers in Hong Kong as of June [...]

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SF you are a genius!

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Noticing the ordeal James went thru recently and the business news I read in the paper about one of the local telecom companies setting up some sort of free no-call online list got me revisiting the idea.
It is actually an interesting and worthwhile project. A database of the no-call list. You send a query containing [...]

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While on a minibus I overheard a young chick around 20 talking to her mum about going to one of those slimming places (the one which uses Janice as their spokesperson). She told her mum that it cost her ~HK$40K to get rid of 15 lbs, but she put it on a credit card instalment [...]

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I like bees. I think they are cool. But for some strange reasons this is very creepy to me. Via BoingBoing and that’s how it happened.

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My X40 has TPM and came with some Thinkpad-specific system software. I had the older Client Security Solution set up, doing its own user authentication instead of the standard WinXP logon. It also came with SafeGaurd PrivateDisk. I set up a 100MB encrypted partition for testing, and copies a bunch of files onto it, although [...]

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Link.

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Enough said.
I have been thinking, since I could only afford to run one DSLR, the D40/D40s might be a little too wimpy (althou it would probably be a very reasonable upgrade from my now vintage D70), and maybe I should look seriously into upgrading to the new D300, which is bound to break some new [...]

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After a few years of extremely low birth rates in Hong Kong, it would appear that things are swinging the other way. Two cousins have just given birth, a colleague is due in September and a good friend is due in November.
Check this out. I’ve always thought that a newborn baby sleeping thru the night [...]

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The Drobo Storage Robot seems like an interesting device. In a nutshell, 4 bays for SATA HDs of any size. 2 or more HDs for data redundancy, and upgrade at will. Say 2 500GB HDs to start, fill the spare bays with 1GB HDs when necessary, then gradually upgrade those 2 500GB HDs one by [...]

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More from 玲瓏雜誌, Shanghai 1930s.

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It is embarrassing to have a hard-on in public in the summer when you are wearing light clothing. To soften your hard-on, just pick your ear with a ear-pick a few times.

NO. SHIT. From 玲瓏雜誌, Shanghai 1930s.

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I have just migrated (long overdue!) James’ blog from MT 2.6x to WordPress 2.2.
I used Alex King’s mt-wp-redirect template when I migrated my own blog from MT 2.6x to WP. While it works reasonably well and most old links are forwarded to the equivalent new links, I have to keep the old site around, and [...]

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A course offered by CUHK History Department. Link.

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I had the opportunity to use a couple of rolls of Kodak ULTRAMAX ISO400 negative film yesterday. Maybe we have been spoiled by Fujifilm, but this ULTRAMAX is seriously coarse. I vaguely remember Fuji Press 1600 being slightly better.
Mind you, it could have been a problem w/ the developer (some Kodak shop), or the camera [...]

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