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I wish Blogger would continue to or even enhanced ftp support. I have a Blogger account (who doesn’t?) and host my never-update Blogger blog on my own server using ftp. It works rather well. But I like Wordpress much better.
The problem with relying on web services like Blogger is that, should the web service provider for [...]

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What happened, and comments.

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[梁文道] 要抬黃乃忠，就連我們一起抬
我從來都覺得，以前土發，現在市建局強制收樓都是不公義的。為甚麼私有產權可以如此被人侵佔？
我完全唔同意「保育份子阻住發展」的說法。點解要有due process？原因就是希望阻止不公義或者不適當的事情發生。記不記得九龍城寨？當年冇乜保育份子阻住發展，港英政府幾日之內拆晒，大家今日重o係度後悔！
公民社會需要像黃乃忠這樣的人。支持他們的方法有很多：留意有關他們的資訊，向有興趣認識的人解釋和討論，現場觀察和記錄等等。公眾多談論和多留意，是保障公民權利的一個好方法。

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你們沒病，孫東東才有病！

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Hardware H.264 encoder. Link via site and site.
Mac only thou, and I now use Sony Vegas Studio (Windows) for editing my AVCHD clips. The workflow still sucks.
(Looking at Elgato’s sales pitch, I think it is a little bit misleading. This USB dongle only helps in encoding the movie clip for final consumption. Importing the clip from the [...]

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最顯眼最多話題者應該係明光社，為網民們ridicule的對像。黃成智及蘇穎智等人亦被受網民爭議。不過這個不是我想講的。
獨媒網上一篇有關最近反基遊行的文章，郤吸引了我的注意力：
在課程內挑戰科學,有40多所基督教學校在生物科加入在美國已列為無稽之談/偽科學的智慧設計論/否定進化論;而在新編的中學教程中,生物科更容許除進化 論的其他解釋(即無法證偽的智慧設計論);另外,在通識中的宗教科,根本是傳教而不是討論及比較不同宗教;另外,亦有基教老師修改生物科的內容以合乎自己 的信仰,及在學校內以老師身份傳教。因為老師代表了世俗社會的權威,如此的傳教是帶有壓迫性的,和在街邊傳教的不可同日而語。
科學教育中教宗教，癡線！想誤人子弟等大家返到中世紀對世界嘅認知乎？！此等教員，教署應立該查明並備案及作出嚴正警告，再犯作失職辦！

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Background reading.

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Thoughtful and well-written response to a complaint of a children’s book about gay marriage in a public library, made by the librarian, Jamie LaRue.

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UK Office of Government Commerce cracks one off.

Hint: turn the logo clockwise 90 degrees.

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Craptacular. Microsoft said it is a spoof. This proves yet again that the Borg has no style whatsoever, even when it is spoofing itself.

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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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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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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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Air Guitar.

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The Edge Annual Question 2008: What have you changed your mind about? Why? Lots of good stuff. It was Slashdot that bought this to my attention, and quoting Sam Harris :-
Mother Nature is not our friend.
So Sam finally agrees with Laozi. In Tao Te Ching, paragraph 5:-
天地不仁，以萬物為芻狗
(which I roughly translate to “Mother Nature is [...]

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Excellent WordPress plug-in. This closes commenting for older posts, so spammers would have a smaller number of posts to inject their crap. I’ll see how it works out.
Update (3/1): Seems to work very well.

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