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While reading about some drama (more here) over at Friendster, I bumped into this article. A good read about blogging and its potential privarcy/legal/liability issue. I have never really thought about it, but it's indeed a minefeild we are walking on.

For privacy reason, I was cautious and hesitate on putting up posts on certain area/details since day 1. ie work, political/other opinion and more sensitive thought. My gut feeling was worrying somethings (but don't know what in particularly) since it's all out in the open and I guess this post give me the food for thought.

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The man with tee roll-up to the chest just so Mainland Chinese. By looking at the picture without any description, I can guess he's from PRC.... not necessary it's a bad thing. It just like all the cute asian gals making a V-4-victory sign in front of camera are likely from Japan. Ok, I'm a bit stereotyping here....

BTW, I don't know if Luis noticed, another common sight of "amusement" (at least to me) is people in China crouching on the sidewalk or other public places (sometimes rolling up their tee at the same time) while waiting or taking a break. In other countries, people either find a bench/fence/curb to sit on or simply standing instead.... But in China, it seems more fashionable to just sit on your feet.... aren't they get tried in that position after a while?

Points of Amusement 1

Taking pictures of her new outfit, some nice fashions on display, nice dressing gals on the street... and as a mirror.

We're just so creative about this new toy.

Digital Media Europe: News - UK girls use camera-phones to check their hair - poll

I finally get my SMC 2835w to work in Fedora 2.

it's rather easy to setup since the driver is in 2.6. All I have to do is download the firmware and place it at /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware (filename isl3890).

However, this card doesn't seem to be stable on Linux and I'm getting a lot of card reset.....

[Update] After more debugging, I found that reset my SMC barricade g router fixed the problem.... maybe it's a bug on the router, not the card?? But the connection never stay up for too long...

I know there will be a LOT of photographers in a mega sport event like the Olympics, but never thought of how many camera will be there.

Just how many camera are at Athens?

Now I know: It's a big amount!

They bring in a battlion of professional level camera with premium lens. All these camera are preset by the sideline and linked wirelessly. So, the photographer just hit a button and all of them snap away.

In addition, photographers bring in their big gun and taken up position to snap on some detail/focus/target shot that the preset camera won't catch.

So, that's how they waste films.... oh, I mean how that are able to take a lot of pictures to ensure something turn up.

I rememebered reading about how low the turn out of pictures taken in sports event, and I definitely know it first hand when taking pictures for our soccer team. That 1 million dollars shot is actually just one of the many, many that failed.

This is my first Sony Ericssen phone.

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I made curry from time to time, it's actually quite easy to made.

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I just got the Linksys USBBT100 Bluetooth USB adaptor. The driver is working right out of the box in Fedora2, it goes alive once I plug in the device.

After that, I just have to configure the bluetooth and pand service in order to allow receiving of file from my SE z600.

The steps to get bluetooth to works on Fedora2 are:
- Setup hcid to ask for PIN, change security mode to user in /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf
- Configure pand in search mode (uncomment one of the lines) from /etc/sysconfig/pand
- Enable bluetooth and pand service
- Insert Bluetooth adaptor
- Start bluetooth and pand service

I have been using the z600 for almost 2 weeks now.

The phone is stylish. At the beginning, I thought it is big, but actually it has very good size and comfortable fit in my hand. The color screen is nice and bright (except under the sun). It's exicting to have polyphonic ringtone. Voice recording/command are kind of cool. I like the flip form-factor and the bluetooth function the most. It's cool to able to use the Jabra headset with this phone.

In addition, I can sync contacts/tasks/notes to my Linux box (with a USB bluetooth adaptor), and send pictures. This is all done via bluetooth.

MMS fulfills my dream to talk to someone 1/2 way around the world and send them a picture at the same time. see here.

The phonebook that allow multiple number per name is nice for grouping people's number, but I hate that the SIM card does has the same format, hence some information is lost when writing to SIM.

I have not try java yet, just not a game guy.....

However, no phone is perfect and so is my z600:
- The GUI lacks configuration flexible. ie grouping function in tab for easier access.
- The access to shortcut is not optimzed and there are not enough number of shortcut available.
- The shortcuts from the nav key is not customizible.
- The more button is not configurable.
- Slient mode should be controlled by the volumn buttons (like in my Kyocera 8135)
- There is no user definite user profile

I could have get z500 if it's out... It has EDGE, PTT, and a better camera (not that I need it). But I'm happy with z600

When I was kid, my Uncle Wong visit us from time to time. He always bring this chocolate to me and my brother.

The chocolate used to be made with nougatine on the top, and fudge on the buttom. That's how the name come by.

These days, it has changed that top is fudge and buttom is chocolate with crispy cereal.

It brings back good memory.

I have been using AmphetaDesk for quite sometimes now, but it never update and lack functions I really want. So, I start out to shop around what's out there.

There is a list of features I'm looking for that AmphetaDesk is lacking:

• New items tracking
• Categories
• multi-users/authentication

Then I found Feed on Feeds, which is not the most good-looking and feature rich aggregator out there. But it has most of the fetaures I want, and there are potential to be a good contender for my ideal RSS aggregator.

What I think is missing currently from this cool software:

• A multi-user/authentication
• Categories to group feeds
• Improve content presentation layer that seperate contents and presentation, and a better default User Ineterface
• A better admin/config functions with many configurable functions

The good thing is many of these are planned, let's hope the next release is coming soon.

I finally score once in the game of ultimate! We were doing some cuts and swings, and I just keep running around and stay open to ready for the disc. I was in the end zone waiting when the disc comes in fast and high, it flights past Dinemis and I just run in a bit and catch it from behind.

We were beaten at the end, but still we have a good games with some scores.

Just enabled mod_deflate to compress web contents. I hope this help speed-up page loading, since I have a slow uplink on the DSL connection

Learnt more cooking tricks from Uncle Nick.

- When marinating beefs, add a bit of water. The meat absorbs the water, which helps keep the meat juicy.
- Spay some water on the grill to do some "fire fighting" when it gets too hot. This helps keep the meat out of the burns' way.
- Add some old soy sauce to the meat can add a light favor and color to the BBQ.
- Use really low power to cook