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From "tag":

• PECL - A repository for PHP Extensions, providing a directory of all known extensions and hosting facilities for downloading and development of PHP extensions
• PDT Project - A PHP Development Tools framework for the Eclipse platform
• Eclipse - An open IDE platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle
• Openswan - An implementation of IPsec for Linux
• RSIP for Linux - A RSIP implementation in Linux, an alternative to the NAT
• TuxMobil - Linux Information for laptops, notebooks, PDAs and mobile phones
• JustLinux - A Linux forum
• Linux Journal - The first magazine focus on Linux
• Loads of Linux Links
• The Linux Documentation Project
• LWN: Welcome to LWN.net
• Wargame club 野戰發燒友
• Night Stalker History - BlackHawkDown - The original writing before it becomes book and movie
• Duncan Long's Gun and Firearms Links
• The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
• VWvortex
• Perl - A popular text processing scripting language
• Learn Perl
• Tcl Developer Site - A scripting language to build GUI
• Expect - A automating interactive applications language for Tcl
• Visual Tcl - A GUI building tool fot Tcl/tk

============ 9up start ==============

在一些雜誌上常見到狗仔隊影到某某和某某在街上十指緊扣拍拖的照片,人們從此斷定他們一定是在"熱戀"之中.

一對在戀愛中的男女,一般來說都會有不同程度的身體接觸.拖手是其中之一種,甚至可以說是最普遍的.除此之外,拖手也是一種情人防止失散的方式;當兩人(在街上)走在一起說話/拍拖,他們的距離雖然是很近,但也可能給人由中間截斷. 這是多麼的沒趣.

拖手正好是防止的最好法.再者,十指緊扣可以使兩人的距離拉近,增進感情.

============ 9up done ================

note: start writing this on Valentine's day, out of boredom.... you can tell I didn't celebrate it with anyone.

A few extended reading (following links for more):
渣估
CK
Engineer
Elaine

From "tag":

• Regular Expressions PHP Tutorial
• Linux HA - High availibility components for Linux (e.g. virtual server, heartbeat, failover, etc)
• Asterisk - An open source PBX running on Linux
• PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine - A sotware to allow heterogeneous networks of Unix and/or Windows computers hooked together as a single large parallel computer.
• free radio linux - An online radio station that boardcast linux source code by a computerised automated voice
• Xen virtual machine monitor - A virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of multiple guest operating systems
• Trixbox - A easy to install and configure business class IP PBX system based on Asterisk
• ubuntu - A Linux distribution based on Debian, with focus on user support
• Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group
• Hong Kong Linux User Group
• Linux Counter - A on-line effort to count how many Linux boxes on this planet
• Linux Terminal Server Project - A simple way to utilize low cost workstations as either graphical or character based terminals on a GNU/Linux server
• OpenVZ - An OS-level server virtualization solution built on Linux.
• Kernel based Virtual Machine - A full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions such as Intel VT or AMD-V
• Video Disk Recorder - A Linux PVR that record TV to HDD
• netfilter/iptables project - A firewall and NAT framework for linux
• SmoothWall - A firewall distribution based on the GNU/Linux operating system
• The Beowulf Cluster Site - A collection of resources for information on Beowulf class cluster computers

Monday night
- No one is here, so I just did some runs before heading home.

Thursday afternoon
- Able to escape from work early and did a few hours riding. I got some feedback about need more "quiet" upper body

Saturday
- Benoit is running the session again. We are working on timing and coordination. Focus on getting the rhythm with flexion and extension.
- Benoit points out my hands riding like a robot..... need to relax them



Sunday
- Benoit introduced us to down un-weight turn. We start on easy terrain, push out/extend to turn and flex/suck in legs to pivot. It's more of a sliding turn at this stage. Upper body should maintain almost static, with movement on legs. Anticipation is still happening as we turn. As we get more advanced, the pressure control should allow more snow control, with increase edge contact.

From "pending":

• habari - A new blogging software

From "tag":

• The Web Robots Pages - Explain how robots.txt works
• Openmoko - Information on Neo1973, a GSM+AGPS Smartphone running a linux based mobile phone stack called OpenMoko

From "tag":

• Gravatar - A globally recognized avatar (an 80×80 pixel image) that identify user on all gravatar enabled sites

From "tag":

• Chinese Dictionary - A Chinese dictionary that also provided how to type a word
• PhpDelicious - A class for accessing the del.icio.us API by Ed Eliot
• FeedBurner - A leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs via RSS feeds.
• 名人網誌目錄 - More celebrities directory, from sidekick
• Feed Validator for Atom and RSS

Monday
- Richard goes over some information about level 2 Analysis and Improvement.
- This is mostly applied to intermediate program students that have learned beginner turns and trying to improve. The idea is to look at their riding and find one weakness to work on (or pick one of the 5 elements for each lesson). To give feedback, a direct method is used. 1) point out the problem/weakness 2) explain how to fix it 3) suggest a tactic to try 4) verify improvement after applies the tactic. This is a bit different from level 1 AI in the sense that we point out something good, then suggest a way to improve.
- We also spend some time working on timing and coordination. Richard points out I still have that 2 setting only stances (flex and extend), which I rapidly change between them. He suggests the counting-in-your-head tactic again, which help.


Saturday
- Benoit brought us to the steep terrain again, continue with more riding.
- Self diagnostic found my toe side is lacking angulation, maybe as a result of increased high back forward lean. Focus: 1) more cowboy stance 2) gain some speed 3) lean my knee (but keep back straight) on toe side turn 4) counting-in-the-head 5) change binding angle


Sunday
- Ezio did runs with us again..... in the cold. He seem to pick a cold day for session twice in a row.
- We are working on some craving related stuff. I basically bomb it entirely, mostly because of flex/extension.
- ez10 also talk a bit about hitting a race course. The focus is to make sure to turn before the gate, else it will be too late into the turn and potentially missing the next gate when we are unable to anticipate it.

From "pending":

• BloggerSnap - Free webcam tool for blogs and websites

From "tag":

• de.lirio.us - A open-source version of the popular social bookmarks service
• del.icio.us - A social bookmarks service pioneering the use of tagging

From "tag":

• OpenWrt - A Linux distribution for Linksys WRT54G/GS series of routers, with added features compared to stock firmware
• Twinkle - A SIP softphone for Linux
• LifeType - A open source blogging platform with multi-blog support for one installation
• Drupal - A blogging software that allow individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website
• Plone - A web application designed to make it easy for non-technical users to add, edit and, well, manage a website
• OpenCMS - It helps to create and manage complex websites easily without knowledge of html
• PHP-Nuke - A news automated system specially designed to be used in Intranets and Internet
• PostNuke CMS - A CMS that creates dynamic web site and provides the webmaster with a site they can administer with a minimal amount of HTML knowledge through a web browser
• The Tikiwiki Community - A Wiki on steroid w/ many features that make it more like a CMS/groupware/on-line commuity
• Mambo - A full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications
• Slashcode: Slash Open Source Project - The CMS that run /. One of the most popular geek/Linux news site out there
• TWiki - A flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise wiki, enterprise collaboration platform and knowledge management system
  - We use this at work too...
• monaural jerk / journal maker - One of the very early weblog, journal, news, diary system
• Radio UserLand - A unique and powerful web publishing and weblog tool with advanced features such as an integrated news aggregator
  - One of the first blogging software, but would you still pay $$$ to have a blog these days?
• Ping-o-Matic! - A service to update different search engines that your blog has updated
• w.bloggar - An application that acts as an interface between the user and one or more blog(s)
• Weblogs.com - A ping server that automatically notifies subscribers when new content is posted to a website or blog
• Nucleus CMS - A powerful blog running on PHP and MySQL, many function can be added on top with plugins
  - I use this at home, and is one of the plugin developers.
• Bloglines - A service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs, and rich Web content
• Movable Type - A publishing platform for business blogs and professionals
• PukiWiki - A web-based tool which enables not only the webmaster but also visitors to add, delete, and modify the pages without restriction.
• Blogger - One of the most popular blogging service providers, which is now own by Google
• open journal - A perl script manage and maintain a web pages
• BlogRolling - A one-stop linklist manager for blog
• WikiWikiWeb - The original wiki
• Geeklog - a PHP/MySQL based application for managing dynamic web content
• BBlog - A powerful, elegant personal publishing system using Smarty templete system
• Technorati - Another popular blog search engine, with support of tags
• b2evolution - A blogging software includes all the features of traditional blog tools, and extends them with many evolved features
• Typepad - A premier blogging service
• DokuWiki - A standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind.
• LiveJournal - A simple-to-use communication tool that lets you express yourself and connect with friends online
• PmWiki - A wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites
• WordPress - A state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability
• WordPress.com - Another raising blog service provider
• MySinaBlog - A popular blog service provider in HongKong
• Xanga - A community of online diaries and journals
• Speakeasy - Speed Test - A real-time bandwidth test for DSL connection

From "tag":

• Hang's Blog: 明星博 - Blog to HK celebrities' blog

From "tag":

• 電腦領域 HKEPC Hardware - A HongKong based computer news outlet and forum
• Bona Fide OS Development News - provide OS developers with all the docs, tutorials, and source codes needed for them to code their own operating system
• YouOS
• Goowy
• Desktoptwo
• DD-WRT - A third party developed firmware released under the terms of the GPL for many 802.11g wireless routers based on a Broadcom chip reference design. i.e. Linksys WRT54G/GL/GS router
• Soldiers Testing FCS Technology Give Thumbs Up
  - The exercise sounds like using technologies coming out of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon III Advanced Warfighter.... A lot of tech are throwing into it. BTW, interesting to see these soldiers are wearing Multicam uniforms and Crye's body armor
• Xindesk
• Big WebOS roundup - 10 online operating systems reviewed

Week 4
- Monday night Richard done some riding with me and Pat. We tried some craving, experiment with orllie, nose press, tail press, spin on snow (180 and 360), and 180 front-side hop
- Saturday, Benoit has us trying turns on steeper terrain (black diamond). The focus is to have flex and extension to allow pivoting happened on the steep slope. Speed control is done via wider turn and uniform shape. Speed = size+shape+slope



Week 5
- Monday is just too cold to go night session (even I was up there for 2 runs.....)
- Saturday, Norm gave another session on advanced sliding turn. The focus is on "twist the cap off a jar (with the knee)", it's almost like flexing the board torsionally to achieve earlier pivot (so snow spread upward or sideway)
- Sunday, Richard presents terrain adaption, stress on independent legs movement. One tactic is to traverse across moguls hitting the top and bottom of it. He also gave an introduction to wall-riding. The simplest way is to ride up and down on the same track. The trick is to make sure lay backward on the way up (to unload front foot), and lean forward on the way down (to unload back foot). The other way to look at it is you are ride up the wall normal and weight shifting to come down on switch. The other way is to up the wall, hop 180ish to come down on the same side, like what is done on a half-pipe.

還記得小時候媽媽見小文不聽話/四處走時會說甚麼甚麼人會怎麼對不乖的小朋友...

以下是那些甚麼甚麼人會做的節錄:
- r-wu 婆會捉你去(食?)
- 拐子佬會捉你去賣
- 警察叔叔會捉你上差館

我想現在的小朋友也不再驚這些的了.... 但是他們會怕甚麼呢? 或是現代的父母已經不再用這方法去教孩子?

香港地﹕拐子佬

你每天行路有留意腳下的路嗎?
Did you look down when you walk everyday?

Finally come back to Ottawa and start snowboarding. I get off the plane on Sunday and went up the hill on Monday night. Since I missed the first 2 weeks, this is really week 3 of snowboarding...



Monday night
- Norm gave us a progression on hop 180
- It is start with spin on the snow, both front-side and back-side
- Then do 180 hop on the front-side, the trick is to hop after into the turn. This is somewhat easier in that if you are unable to land 180, at least you are not catching the edge
- As we progress, should allow to hop earlier into the turn. At the end, hop on fall-line
- We also try out some ramp and the table

Saturday morning
- ez10 got us tried to do early edging
- One drill is to hop to change edge as we crossing the fall-line, instead of extend and pivot

Sunday morning
- Benoit continues on the theme of week: edging
- "lift up the heel" and "point up the toe"
- clock turn, pivot on high 11 o'clock
- sponsor turn, focus on increasing the edge angle
- water out of the boot, focus on (again) increase the edge angle to clear water out of the boots
- toe-2-toe turn to focus on one edge