Now, another round of Team Fortress 2!

Well, this season I have acquired some very nice gear. It is most important to become intimately familiar with your gear, so into the pool I went. When I did the drill I noticed that the tilt-body-swing-arm method didn’t work, so I reached over my shoulder. It wasn’t as easy as before but still totally manageable , and I thought no more of it.

While reading Scubboard, I note that my nice regulator is actually of neutral buoyancy (meaning that it neither sinks or rises in water). Training regulators are usually less fancy and therefore heavier, pulling the hose so the whole thing is hanging down the side vertically, allowing the tilt-body-swing-arm trick to work. No big deal. Just different.

Kinda slow…

星期二終於上完堂，考埋試，讀完初級高氧應用。

潛水用高氧，最顯著的優點是增加「免減壓」時間，適合出外「喪潛」！

下月會上wreck diving，初步估計應該會用nitrox做實習。

Under Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum, importing/dragging a movie clip in only gives the video, but no sound. It appears that the sound track embedded in WX-1 movie clips is mono, so while most media player plays the these clips fine, for some reasons Vegas simply ignores the mono sound track. However, it seems to work fine w/ iMovie on my Mac. Crap.

Update (12:15): Link which may offer a solution to problems with opening movie files created by one of those odd-ball cameras. In my case, upgrading Quicktime to the latest version fixed the problem.

When I visited the Sony Style shop in CWB on Friday night, I discovered the new ECMAW3, for which the receiver can be plugged straight into any mic-in jack. I have not played with it, but if it works as well as the ECMHW1, then for anyone who doesn’t have a Sony camcorder and wants decent sound, go get it.

前輩有云：「有食冇食，全憑滴滴」，是指手腕上之瑞士名表。家父有老朋友為頗成功之商人，八十年代曾對我等小輩講過，手上腕表切不可比大老板之腕表更名貴，故此他捨「皇冠」而取「 盾牌」。自出來做事，所遇到之老板大多是「精工」及「卡西歐」之擁躉，而我亦冇機會冇興趣接觸認識瑞士名表。

見過精工版網友所介紹的Grand Seiko及精工表獨步天下之Spring Drive技術，亦驚見其與大路瑞士名表差不多的高價錢，昨日路經銅鑼灣，專登往精工專門店一睹真身。兩位店員態度親切有禮，印像不錯。GS果然造工精細，可惜外形除了一兩款外，非我所欲。Spring Drive秒針平滑移動的絕技，當然最好用在大秒針之上，但是款式頗討好的chronograph，大針用在計時上，常動之秒針則為小圈內之小針！可惜！

有日如果我真係有閒錢可能會買隻GS帶吓。暫時我對我隻Seiko自動潛水表幾滿意，同隻G-Shock重有隻Suunto Core輪流帶。

The Casio G-Shock Frogman is supposed to be built for diving. The latest models run on solar (good!), are super-tough (good!) and have diving log (great!). One model even picks up radio signals and calibrate itself (cool!). They are however rather expensive, and the displays are far too small for me to read comfortably under water. Fail.

I picked up a cheap-ish Seiko Automatic (mechanical!) diver’s watch. When I was a kid I had a Citizen automatic mechanical watch, which needed annual lube service after a couple of years or it would just not run. I have been quite weary of mechanical watches since then.

Since wearing this new Seiko I have picked up the habit of comparing the time on my watch with the time on my mobile phone (calibrated with network time server), although I keep telling myself I am not too worried about time accuracy to the second.

We’ll see how my 2nd mechanical watch ever works out.

For the record, just build and install the PHP5 port, then PHP5-extensions port. Ignore all the other PHP5-* ports.