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Me and the Lady have just spent a long weekend in Beijing, and I have had the opportunity to use a friend’s newly bought Canon 500D. It’s compact and very light. The camera is snappy and the built-in flash works rather well as fill-in in standard program mode. Nice.
The only complaint I can think of [...]

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A Tribute to KODACHROME.
Kodachrome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day,
Oh yeah I got a Nikon Pentax camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away
KODACHROME (K64) was slow, but it has this most distinctive and pleasant colour palette, [...]

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What happened, and comments.

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Jasper的舞蹈班上有一位可愛的小女孩子，膚色和輪廓與我們無分別，與其他小朋友溝通時亦是用粵語，只不過她與她母親講通時用的方言則並不常聽到。一問之下，她自認是越南人。
人種上，她們一家很可能是漢族，不過未曾來香港之前，世代住在越南，故此認同自己為越南人。兩三代之後，當他們完全融入了這個社會，可能會認同自己是中國人，先祖是越南華僑（不過很難証實）。

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No wonder why it doesn’t bloody work! The Nokia E71 barcode reader only reads 2D (i.e. QR) barcodes and not the more common 1D barcodes at the back of books and CDs. How hard is it to support more types?

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Yes the browser is the OS. I have just installed Opera Unite, a new and special version of the Opera browser. It contains some P2P features which are very cool, and it has an API for developing your own plug-ins. I have only played with it for a few minutes but the initial impression is [...]

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I checked out the HTC Magic at the Tuen Mun Smartone-Vodafone shop. It was obvious that SV has its own agenda on what phone models to push, ‘cos I had to ask one of the sales people there, and he had to go to the back of the shop, and pulled out a working sample [...]

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完全係個陰謀！
天眼冇鬼用，特區政府大條道理整到周圍都係。香港特區將步英國後塵，變成CCTV國度！
前宗主國d好野又唔學，學埋d衰野！

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The Lady needed to submit her Master’s Thesis in PDF format. She couldn’t get her thesis all in one Word file, so we had to do some PDF acrobatics to put together this one single PDF file.
I found PDF reDirect, which is rather neat piece of free software. The idea is, it is a PDF [...]

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(This is an old entry first written in December 2008.)
I was chatting with Jasper last night. We went from the movies Hellboy II to Hellboy I to the villian Rasputin in the movie and the real guy in history. We got onto Wikipedia and I read him the entry to the guy who just would [...]

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EPIC. FAIL.
The Hong Kong Police can’t count.

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We went to this new MOS Burger place in Tuen Mun last night after Jasper’s swim lesson. I had a shrimp burger, Jasper had a Sakusaku Chicken burger, while the Lady had a hotdog. The food was fine but a bit odd.
If White Spot Triple-O’s is this big friendly Canadian guy who tries very hard [...]

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First officially supported Google Andriod phone in Hong Kong. Smartone-Vodafone is the sole supplier. The shop in Central (near Central market) has exactly ONE working sample lunch time today. I couldn’t be bothered to wait for my turn to play with it so I left.
No hard keyboard.
Update (23:00): It seems Hutchison 3 has it too.

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and you are as good as your last piece of work.
I have personally paid and bought 4 of the excellent Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 wifi routers, so when my old Linksys died I went for another Buffalo. The local importer was no longer importing the old 802.11g models, so I went for the WHR-G300N, which was cheap for a [...]

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