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I’ve just got hold of a nearly mint IBM Thinkpad X30. The one with the legendary keyboard. No, my Lenovo Thinkpad X61 keyboard is nowhere as nice.
The problem was, the X30 only had 256MB of RAM. I wiped out the harddisk containing WinXP Home and installed Ubuntu Linux. The machine simply wasn’t usable because of [...]

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I didn’t know that they sell pastry cakes.

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While the HKSAR Govt is still p*ssing about with the language of instructions, we really should be reviewing the whole of education. Excellent talk. Take education of your children, back into your hands.

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Link. RIP.

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A client is about to adopt a new corporate logo, and I did a trade mark search, which reveal an identical logo already registered by an unrelated company. It turned out that the logo was “designed” by a designer in their in-house design department in China. The client didn’t think too much of it, but [...]

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I have just found out about it. Hurrah! With Google Sync, you may now sync Google Calendar with your Crackberry.
It doesn’t work with my ancient Crackberry thou. I couldn’t download the software. Insufficient memory! Crap.

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I might have over-committed myself. It has gotten pretty bad that I am somewhat behind on a few things. MUST. SLOW. DOWN.

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