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From "My tagged link dump":
  • Google Code - Google's developer network provide information to programmer trying to integrate thie web application with Google
  • Yahoo! developer network - Information on integration web application with Yahoo! web services (via web API)
  • Lenovo ThinkPad T60p review - This is my new toys, just order the latest Core 2 Duo one cool
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There is a recent report about lottery fraud in Ontario and followed up by police investigation. The amusing part is that soon after that a class-action suit is filed against the Lottery company..... I mean, I can sue because I am unlucky and because someone cheat my luck?

Speaking of luck, I recently won a weekly draw at my work's cafeteria. smile

The lunch I won at work

I am not a very lucky person, I rarely won thing with luck.

Wondering what is the odd of someone winning a lunch at work..... must be pretty high because I have only been submit for the draw for a few months.
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  • Apollo - A runtime to allow web application to run offline
    - It got some advantage I think since Adobe own flash so integration will be smooth. I also wondering how it competes with Firefox 3.0's off-line feature.
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  • 一言孤島 - Blog-You.com
    - just old soap opera bump into when reading around. Why can't we just 意見接受,態度照舊?
  • Feed Icons - A standard feed icon proposed to identify syndicated content
  • Share Icon Project - An icon to represent the generic action adding/linking to social bookmarking site or memetracker
  • OPML Icon Project - An icon to represent action to OPML information
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  • MythTV - A Linux PVR system with many cool features like RSS reader, display weather, DVD/CD ripping, MAME support
  • Freevo - Another PVR for Linux
  • AROS - A portable and free desktop operating system aiming at being compatible with AmigaOS
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現在才講這題目真的很 out... 想寫主要是 for the record.

我在2003年開這 blog 時,或多或少是跟風.當時 blog 在美國開始與起,我認為長遠來說網站的發展會朝 blog 這方向走.試問誰還會自已寫 HTML 當有軟件 generate 整個 website?所以我就放棄了在 geocities 的網站,用家中的 server 自建了這 blog.

而我又是一個怪人,喜歡"搞機"- 玩 server, 玩 linux, 玩 sysadmin,學吓試吓是我的嗜好.我不喜歡用現成的 bsp,寧願 reinvent the wheel.選 blogging 軟件也用一個很好但是不是很流行的 NucleusCMS.因為很多功能也沒有人寫,所以有很多的機會給我去發掘各種新的 web technologies.現在我多在寫 plugins 去整合 Nucleus 與其他網上服務(i.e. blogroll, tagging, del.icoc.us, Technorati, etc.).

可以說我 blog 因為我 develop,寫只是玩 blog/玩 server的副產品.

有了這個平台,也需要內容.因我多留意 web2.0,linux,及 open source 的訊息就正好給我寫 blog 的題目,加上我 snowboard,生活日記,及相片等就成了我 blog.

我相信 blog is anything 是香港 blogsphere 的方向及出路.只要我們不被各 bsp 邊緣/孤立/siloize,香港的 blog 界是會百花齊放的.blog-you.com 是 ralevant 的,bsp blog &公海 blog 也是 blog.香港的 blogsphere 可以是很大的.

blog is anything.

see:
原來我是bsp blogger
經一事,反一智
非黑即白
Blogosphere:只不過是社會的反映
留言當新篇 (二) 自我反省
有點兒走火入魔
Sina與Blogyou
網摘是開放的關鍵

2007/03/23: Mozilla as a OS

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Read a discussion on the Mozilla forum about making Mozilla a desktop environment.

In the quest for WebOS, some point in time a new breed of Desktop environment will appear. These desktops looks and feel like the desktop you use today, except that everything underneath is connect on-line. Your applications and data storage are likely on-line, or persistent on local system when the system is not connect to the net. (Of course, we better have a never failing connection to the Internet for this to work....)

The discussions now seem to be how the local infrastructure should be like. The few of them in discussion or even being implemented currently are all living inside the web browser (i.e. EyeOS, XIN, Goowy, ORCA, and alike). They, in a way, like a virtual-machine (actually desktop only) running on top of the native desktop. There is still one layer from the functional or presentation point of view to a user that making WebOS a native OS to them.

So, some of this new idea are to have a base OS, might that be Linux/FreeBSD/whatever to provide the hardware support and run the WebOS on-top of it. I guess I'd rather seeing the OS as a HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) to the WebOS, which we need anyway if we want to use say the printer and other local devices.

The discussion above even pushing the idea one more level asking maybe we should make the browser window disappear and become the root desktop (using XUL and other alphabet technologies). I think it's really possible to do. After all, we already seeing LinuxBIOS can boot into X now. All we need is to have a Mozilla running as a desktop, and a WebOS stack is completed.

A web-era thin-client is born.
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  • WebWait - A web service to benchmark a website performance
  • twittervision - A real-time display of Twitter messages with a google.
    - It's so cool to see messages kind poping up non-stop
  • LinuxMCE - A Linux based MCE sustem based on ubuntu. It supports home automation/security and VoIP (via astrisk)
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  • Vox - A free personal blogging service
    - How does it compare to Xanga, MySina, MySpace, and alike?
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2007/03/19: Face

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面,係要人俾;但係,架,係自己丟嘅

from here

What a true statment.
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From "My tagged link dump":
  • VirtualBox - A Virtualization product for Windows and Linux
    - wondering how it compares to Xen, KVM, QEMU....
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2007/03/16: RIP, Web-o-URL

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Today, I decommission web-o-url, a set of PHP scripts I wrote back in 2003 to collect useful links I saw on the web.

Web-o-URL admin interface

It is my first PHP project to learn about the language, MySQL, and creating web application in general. It's kind of like blogroll and features a category structure to group links in a searchable fashion. Most important, it gets the job done.

As I start a blog and blogroll is getting popular, I start to use NP_Blogroll on my blog to collect links. On the other hand, tagging is taking off and gone crazy on the web. I realize the limitation of one category per link and want to add tagging function to web-o-url.

Since Joel stopped working on the plugin and I need a tagging function for web-o-url. I decided to continue develop NP_Blogroll to add the function. I've been working on the plugin and gradually migrating all links from web-o-url to NP_Blogroll.

Today it's done. So, it's time for web-o-url to go.
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Only 9 years and a boring wall can becomes art? Only happen in China....

Wall of Graffiti Wall of Graffiti 2
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From "My tagged link dump":
  • Haiku Operating System - A open source operating system currently in development designed from the ground up for desktop computing, inspired by BeOS
  • TorrentFlux - A PHP based Torrent client that runs on a web server

2007/03/13: Wall of Posters

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In Hong Kong, just after dark and even many stores are still open, people already putting up posters on closed stores. It makes quite a sight sometimes, note the types of posters on the walls.....

Wall, full of posters 1 Wall, full of posters 2
Wall, full of posters 3 Wall, full of posters 4
Wall, full of posters 5
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Me frozen up

Since 9 weeks program is done, things are winding down for the season. The weather on Monday was so cold that I decided not to go up for riding. sad

On Saturday, Camp Fortune was raining while temperature under freezing point.... weird. The rain turns into layer of ice on the ground, chairlift, and on me.

Ice covered chair 1 Ice covered chair 2

Luckily, the snow condition was good, actually surprisingly nice. I took the advantage to turn in some mileage on steep terrain of slalom.

Main focus:
- Not thinking, just turning
- Done both Big wide turns and short-radius turns
- Quiet upper body anticipation/movement, more driving with knee.
- Put in Flexion and Extension
- Putting in some 180 hop at the end of run to get good at the trick
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From "Pending to read":
  • Mindomo - Web-based mind mapping software
  • Mindquarry - Open Source Teamwork, Collaboration, Project Management
From "My tagged link dump":
  • TaskList.org - List of Windows proccesses and descriptions to help determine if spyware, adware or viruses on a computer
  • Scribd - A web service to put docments on-line, user can view doc with a flash based viewer
  • Trac - A wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects
  • Alias-TV.com - A spy TV show with a Da Vinci twist
  • FelicityTunes.com - A songs and stuff about Felicity, a TV show about college life in NYC from the sam ecreator of Alias
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation - The next generation that boldly go where no one has gone before
  • The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - A lot of information about movie everywhere
  • A Felicity Page - Another Felicity website
  • ReactOS - An open source operating system providing application and driver compatibility to Microsoft Windows® XP
  • TinyOS - an component-based open-source operating system designed for wireless embedded sensor networks
  • Fiwix - A educational OS kernel that is compatible to Linux
  • The L4 microkernel family - A µ-kernel (microkernel) running on i486 and Pentium CPUs
  • MIT Exokernel Operating System - A OS designed in a way that each application is almost like running on its own OS in an libaries, with a small layer to multiplexing each instance
  • The Contiki Operating System - An highly portable multi-tasking operating system for memory-constrained networked embedded systems (2KB RAM, 40KB ROM). It implements a light-weight protothreads that provide a linear, thread-like programming style on top of the event-driven kernel
  • The OSKit Project - A framework and libraries for operating systems R & D
  • The Globus Alliance - An open source software toolkit used for building Grid systems and applications
  • One Man Unix - Before Linux, there is one man UNIX
  • VisualOS - VisualOS is an educational visual simulator of an operating system
  • Plan 9 from Bell Laboratories FAQ - This OS is from the famous Bell Laboratories, where C & UNIX is borned
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  • Creative Commons - A licensing term for peopel to share, reuse, and remix their contents legally - I am using CC now as well, see sidebar
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Monday night
- Doing more A&I with Richard, Mary-Ann, Steve, and Bernie. We watch each other ride and point out weakness and provide feedback to improve.

My problems:
- Stance and balance: laying back
- Steering: too much anticipation for craving turn instead of drive with knee
- Pressure control: lifting shoulder on extension
- Timing: flex & extension too fast

Solution:
- keep a A form of hands while riding
- keep hands in board when anticipation and use more knee to drive the turn
- push body forward on steeper terrain (i.e. the pit)
- ensure to flex and extend more

Sunday
- Benoit run "just ride" session, done many runs on steep terrain

It's the last day of 9 weeks program. So, many dress up for the lesson.
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Skype is petitioning FCC to open cellular network for its software (Ok, not literately but basically what they are asking)

It is the next step in the evolution to a full boardband communication world, some calls it hyper-connectivity.

Telecom technologies evolve from its infancy days of analog to digital. As communication carries in a digital network, the total bandwidth increased as newer and better technologies developed. One of the trends is to move from circuit-switch networks (i.e. ATM) to packet network (Ethernet+TCP/IP, the Internet) to realize higher effectiveness of our network and cost saving with one infrastructure for all traffic.

This transformation also happen from the core of the network to the edge, which reach into our home and our life. We now have dialup/DSL/FTTH/HSDPA, tomorrow we are going to get WiMax/UMB/LTE. The pipe folow us anywhere we go, instead of at a stationary location. It's all about having a big fat pipe of packet network from your at anywhere to a server/service/information somewhere around the world.

Once we got this big pipe that is accessible anyway, next question is how we are going to use it. Today, we are only using our cellphone in a very limited way; phone call, SMS/MMS, CSD, WAP, Internet access, maybe even IM (just started recently). These applications are all support and provided by the cellular operator, and is rather limited. Why I can't do Voice over IM? What about watching Youtube on my cellphone? Skype? run some p2p to share some stuff while I am out there. What stopping me from running Vonage VoIP service on my cellphone? What if I have a PDA phone and want to run Google Office? Currently, you probably can't. Even if you have a relatively fat pipe like EVDO Rev A, unless you are just using your cellphone as a modem to a laptop, you cant really fo any of these.

So, it makes sense to open up the cellular network so user can run whatever they want on their capable phone. This allow us to use our phone innovatively.
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  • Add This! - A aggregate service to put simple and recognizable buttons to allow visitors save your website or blog to the social bookmarking and feed reader services
  • Gizmo Project - An Internet phone application blends with IM (YM, GoogleTalk, WindowsLive)

2007/03/02: Fon-dy-Do-Dada

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So do I want to run FON so I have free WIFI access when visiting a few places around the world?

I check their map, there are many places in and around Ottawa have FON running, even 3 in my neighborhood.

But I think the risk is more than benefit to me right now:
- I don't really travel around that much and use my laptop on the road.
- It seem to be violating my ISP agreement to share my connection like this.

Extended reading from Boardband reports
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Reading some news about that suppose to come net meltdown.

Ok, the internet bandwidth is getting chow up in a fast rate (I first heard about it from our CTO last year, and still wondering it's an illusion). Youtube, VoIP, p2p, spams, botnets, and plain old people browsing the web; you named it.

I guess it's time to crunch out the next generation technologies to increase the capacity of the Internet. I hope all these new things like PBB/PBT, faster optical network and others going to helps us keeping up with the demand. But on the other hand, thinking back to some of the up and coming technologies like FTTH, WiMax, UMB/LTE, they are all access technologies actually going to increase the demands since they give users are bigger pipe to access the information they want on the internet.

Whether it's real or not, all I care is able to access the Internet whatever way I want. razz
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From "tag":
  • Zimbra - An innovative open source messaging and collaboration application
  • MyBlogLog - A social communities service to allow blog authors and readers interact as a group.
    - saw @ 五師兄字 blog, it allows readers and author to form a community and interact, kind of like a Friendster without all the flirting.