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My old man has been using an old BBK DVD player with his plasma TV.
I saw the Pioneer 410V HDMI upscaling DVD player in PCM (local computer-AV-gadget mag) and told him about it. He went around shopping and bought one from Fortress in Causeway Bay. But he forgot to grab an HDMI cable, so it [...]

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Blood and gore! Movie 1 (~20MB) and movie 2 (~120MB).
Update (25/7) : James said he couldn’t finished watching the 2nd movie (too much blood and gore?) The Lady had no problem watching it thou. She said once the lamb was dead taking its carcass apart wasn’t so bad. She even noted that there was a [...]

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To prepare for a little presentation in the debriefing of our Archaeology trip to Inner Mongolia, I was going thru the video footages I shot during the trip. I have therefore had an opportunity to review the use of my Sony CX7.
Video filming is hard. Staging is necessary for decent results, and by decent results [...]

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I checked out the new iPhone 3G at a Hutchison 3 outlet in Tuen Mun yesterday.
I loaded Google News on Safari over the 3G network. Performance was quite agreeable, and the gorgeous screen! I could read it all day!
It is not cheap thou. HK$4,680 and HK$5,640 to take the 8GB and 16GB models out respectively. [...]

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Brilliant movie!

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Kids at the Lady’s school have just written an essay on “My Favourite Movie”. Funny one kid wrote about Snake on a Plane, but this is not what I want to write about.
A few kids wrote about 10,000 B.C., but they all mistook the name of the movie as “1,000,000 B.C.”, when homo erectus (the [...]

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I had the pleasure to visit Tai O during the Dragonboat Festival in 2008.
I don’t think the Dragonboat Festival has been a favourite traditional festival of my generation, and certain not for the younger generation. Traditionally there has been live! TV coverage of dragonboat races in different locations around Hong Kong all morning and early [...]

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I expected a lot more hilarous remake of classic movies, but those clips were far too short (lasting only a second or two). I still like the movie.
At the end, the folks made a movie about Fats Waller (who has nothing to do with the local community). Legend was what the people made of it. [...]

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Updated entry. The first words are in. Mum and dad said the Chinese-made ceramic knife is much better at cutting bread their special-purpose bread knife.

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I have attended two field trips in the last few weeks and took my GPS with me. I created two Google Earth KML files from the GPS data and emailed the Guangzhou file to fellow member of the travel group. Except more than half of the group have absolutely no idea what Google Earth is [...]

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The workflow sucks.I am now deeply convinced of the usefulness of the BT wireless microphone. You could pick up much better sound by sticking that mic close to the speaker, plus any conversation between the speaker and the audience. This beats a shotgun mic. Pretty much ideal for my needs. One little nit to pick: [...]

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Light and small.Excellent movie image quality. Reasonable (to my own standard) low-light movie image quality. Good photo image quality.Reasonable audio quality. I have yet to scrutinze the audio quality given by the BT wireless microphone. Next time may be I’ll bring along my Zoom H2 to pick up some decent sound during meetings and presentations.The [...]

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last night.
We went to see some great conservation/preservation sites and museums, and some not-so-great ones. We listened to two great talks given by the heads of the GZ Cultural Department and the GZ Archaeology Team. Conservation and preservation are hard, and the people doing it all seem to be filled w/ heart and enthusiasm, despite [...]

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to visit a few museums and monuments. Back on Monday nite.
Looks like the weather’s going to be sh*t.

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Pretty good, as the reviews on the Internet say. But not as good as Spiderman.

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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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Don’t be fooled by the fat chick on the poster, this is an excellent movie. Highly recommended.

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