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2007/04/30: Silence for the Day

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One Day Blog Silence

How many times we got to see this kind of things happned?
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  • Pligg CMS - A open source social digg-like CMS
  • Digg - A service allow users to submit and vote for the most popular contents/news
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Andy just announced the first even book on NucleusCMS is out now. It's a milestone for the project and showing the popularity of the software in Japan. cool

Nucleus book in Japan now!

Amazon.co.jp: Nucleus CMS Japan

Congret!
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2007/04/22: Quality of Man

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I was thinking the other day, does in general success is determined by the quality of man?

This quote from movie First Option, pop in mind:

It's all about the quality of the man, not the equipment

However, Chinese used to say you need to use proper tool, if you want to do a good job (工欲善其事,必先利其器)

From own experience, I feel that the equipment play a big part. I observed my snowboarding as an example that I ride better with Burton SW, than GNU CHB. As the GNU getting old and flat (vs snappy), my turns become less lively. And I saw so many cases of bad equipment hampering student progress. Another example is my badminton racket, with the Ti-7 I can hit it to the back of the court (when I swing properly)

I guess there is certain truth in it.
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2007/04/20: My Thinkpad T60 #1

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The T60 has arrived for 2 weeks now and I finally able to get the Vista repartitioned to free up space to install Fedora Core.

The Vista disk shrink function sucks because it cannot deal with system files and page files that scattered around the disk.

At the end I use gpartd in ubuntu 7.04 liveCD and get the job done.

I will write more about the laptop later.
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The killer of VT sent in some video and stuff to NBC, and people are thinking should it be open up for all to see.

I don't know this is really the best way to handle... I am not disagree with what Dave said, but I am concerned we are doing exactly what the killer want us to do; view and publicize it (even worst, put it on YouTube).

It's the knowing that the act will indirectly "glorify" in some way that we should not encourage. We are granting to this guy a honor (in a bad way) when we open these contents up for all to see. What you would think when you know these video will be viewed on the net and TV after you die? (getting excited? I am wondering maybe that how they feel?)

I hope NBC just turns it over to Authority, have it lock up for years before re-open it in public domain. Of course, meanwhile it can be accessed by those have a good reason to (i.e. academic), but not to those "just to see what the hype about" type.

How do we balance between public interest (to know the truth), and encouraging such evil act?
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Downloading Ubuntu 7.04 from Torrentflux - fast!

Bittorrent is really fast when the source is in demand..... ~700MB CD in 2 hours.

Going to try it out on my new Thinkpad T60 to see if I can shrink Vista on the harddisk. Some reported that gpartd can get it done.

Vista is really sucks in the sense that all the system files and page files scatter all over the place, so user often can't shrink the partition with the build-in partition shrink function (I can only squeeze 20GB out of a 60+GB partition)
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Twitter是近來在 Internet上很 hit的玩意. 它像一個 blogging system (aka microblogging);又可以是 IM;有人用它當syndicaion tool; 總之玩法多多,可以發揮創意. 很多香港的 bloggers也加入行列大玩這新玩意.

我也開始看看這小鳥是甚麼東西. 作為一個 developer,當然要試試其 API有多勁. Internet己經見到很多圍繞 twitter的其他玩意,如 twittervision. 所以我也為 Nucleus 寫了個 plugin去 integrate twitter. 這個 plugin 現在己可以自動 download及 archive tweets. 遲些還可以寫上 twitter及在我 blog update時自動宣佈.至於它的 API,用了差下多一星期覺得很豊富,又很有彈性,可以用XML,RSS,JSON,Atom format.我只需 >10行 php code就可以 call個 API.

sidekick
pig
jan
jacky
天佑
cow
speechlessness
ryoko
oslo
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Saw this at sidekick..... just curious.

Who celebrity I looks like?
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  • TinyURL - A URL redirection service that shorten the original link
  • Twitterment - a twitter search engine
    - hum, wondering how they do that..... do they poll all tweets out to local and search? I don't think the API provide such function
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  • Meta Tracker - A fast and small desktop search program like Beagle/Google search
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Did I mentioned at the beginning of the year 2007 will be a year of changes?

The 1st change happened just over the weekend, I switch ISP from Bell Sympatico HSE to Teksavvy.

They have a discount rate for my company and I heard only good things about them, so I switched.

Indeed, switchover is smooth, apart from some setup issue on my part on out-going email. They even have NNTP server so I can read some local newsgroups on Thunderbird, just like the good old days.
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