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For the modern homo sapiens with very primitive flint knapping skills (that is, me), once the flint core is smaller than say the size of my fist, direct percussion is a dangerous affair, as demonstrated yesterday. The wound on my hand is not too bad, but I could still squeeze a couple of drops of [...]

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Just bought the DVD. EXCELLENT. Highly recommended.

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In Jared Diamond’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee, on the subject of human drug abuse,

However, archaeologists were long puzzled by slender tubes of unknown purpose that they kept finding in Mayan excavations.

The tubes’ function finally became clear with the discovery of painted vases showing scenes of the tubes’ use: to administer intoxicating [...]

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In a history project I am helping out with, there is a need to convert a bunch of dates from Chinese calendar to Gregorian dates. I googled for solutions, found the Perl library “DateTime::Calendar::Chinese”, and wrote a small script on my FreeBSD machine to show that it works.
It would be good to make a long-term [...]

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Last Saturday was cold and wet. I had my TP X40 in a bag. While walking down some outdoor stairs which were very slippery I slipped, landed on my backside, and stopped myself from sliding all the way down the stairs by rolling over. I also broke the computer. The casing protecting the screen and [...]

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SuperDuper! has just been updated to be compatible with Leopard. Now I can upgrade the OS on my iMac.
I would say SuperDuper! is one of the greatest invention for modern personal computing. It enables you to easier backup your Mac. As long as your backup is intact, you could always resume work easily. THE. BEST. [...]

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The customer demography of Apple dealers, especially those in Central is very different to that of the average computer shop in SSP or MK. Their customers are often rich and powerful, and maybe even famous, and those dealers try very hard not to annoy them, ‘cos otherwise there may be dire consequences.
If I were a [...]

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Film and original graphic novel. Chinese version of the graphic novel was published around summer last year. Highly recommended.

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Via 小影, 十年一覺程設夢

我只聽過玩 Online Game 玩到暴斃, 還沒看過寫程式寫到暴斃的案例.

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