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How many times we got to see this kind of things happned?

From "Pending to read":

• :: GOM PLAYER ::

From "My tagged link dump":

• Geek to Live: Build an internet jukebox with Jinzora (Lifehacker)
  - Talk about how to create a audio streaming server with jinzora, but a lot of comments point out other streaming solution
• media hive - A java based audio streaming system for mp3 and ogg
• Ampache - A php/mysql based audio streaming system
• Jinzora - A web-based audio streaming system

From "Pending to read":

• PK_日記 » Blog Archive » angelita, elaine & susan

From "My tagged link dump":

• Scaling Twitter and Other Lessons from Mr. Cook (Ruby Sunday)
  - Inside scoop of the battle of scaling Twitter
• 黃亞細肉骨茶 @ Singapore (Another day has gone)
• 【師兄廚房】終極美味加拿大prime西冷 (五師兄字)
  - yummy steaks

From "My tagged link dump":

• Trust in Web-based Social Networks - Information on turning web into a social network
• XFN: Introduction and Examples - Information on XHTML Friends Network
• The Friend of a Friend project - Information on FoaF

From "My tagged link dump":

• Pligg CMS - A open source social digg-like CMS
• Digg - A service allow users to submit and vote for the most popular contents/news

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.



Amazon.co.jp: Nucleus CMS Japan

Congret!

From "Pending to read":

• Sephora: Sephora Summer Blockbuster Palette: Combination Sets

From "My tagged link dump":

• What "Map: Welcome to the Blogosphere" Doesn't Tell You! (Dave Lucas)
  - quote: "what secret do Wendy and Michelle share? LINKS! They have been LINKED to or simply MENTIONED in other blogs!". The other secrets are: being on TV; sex

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:



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.

From "My tagged link dump":

• Map: Welcome to the Blogosphere (Discover Mag)
  - Mapping the blogosphere

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.

From "Pending to read":

• Installing Fedora 7 on a ThinkPad T60 - ThinkWiki
• The Long Tail

From "My tagged link dump":

• World Community Grid - To create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity
• Virginia Tech: Yet Another Wake-Up Call for Better Emergency Preparedness (PBS Teachers | learning.now) - A look into how the communication break down when tragedy strike. The fact is our internet infrastructure is very fragile in the wake of disaster. sms might be the next best bet. But I think a old-fashion PA system still what needed... maybe a modernize wireless mesh PA system?
• 長尾港女 (追 揸 沽) - Interesting way to look at long tail
• 港女災難應變中心 HKGIRL.NO-IP.ORG - Just for the laugh

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?

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)

From "Pending to read":

• Wanted Poster Generator - Make your own Old-West-style Wanted Poster (and use it as an MSN display image)!

From "My tagged link dump":

• 文字.朋友.部落格 (文鋒起吾)
  - Quote:"部落格可以是筆友的超級無敵加強版 (筆友交友方式)"
• TorontoFoodies

From "My tagged link dump":

• Strange Loops: Ken Thompson and the Self-referencing C Compiler (Good Math, Bad Math)
  - I first read about the original Ken T. acticle back in the days when I was an intern at Nortel

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

From "Pending to read":

• tomhung〈職業：C.I.D.——對唔住，我係差人！〉

From "My tagged link dump":

• 2036年，在香港使用電腦… « 死火手記 - 思考／HK-X-Force 的圖文影音享樂誌 - Quote "到頭來，全港市民都是輸家！知識及創作無法傳播，創作無法進行，社會無法發展，犧牲品是香港!"
• Mastering JSON ( JavaScript Object Notation )
• 吃壽司的禮儀 (活在桃花島) - Indeed, my friend's wife (who is a Japanese) once explain to me the chopstick is place horizontally over there.

Saw this at sidekick..... just curious.

From "Pending to read":

• Podcast Corner- 香港．300

From "My tagged link dump":

• 一個商業模式宰割Blogosphere的時代 (讀本鴉色)
  - Quote: "是很多人在寫喔，人們是看很多feed喔，但他們都沒有甚麼得著。"

From "My tagged link dump":

• 外國壽司
  - How picky can we be? I wonder any place in TO up to this level.... need to try it out for the benchmark
• 你地好意思「Blog 嘢」？ (庫斯克的床)
  - Quote: "Bloggers有所為有所不為"
• Intermediate tutorial - XML Parsing using PHP (kirupa.com)
  - A good way to handle in-coming XML data

From "My tagged link dump":

• 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

From "My tagged link dump":

• Dreaming in the "Cloud" with the XIOS web operating system
  - Interesting to see more details on what features makes XIOS stands out. It is able to run offline and resync with the server later, and program is run locally to better utilize system resource and improve performance. It also has a good point that webos is not solving any particular problem, merely a different way to do things.
• Microsoft Research Singularity Project - A research OS from Microsoft, explore on new way of OS design
• Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth (Joel on Software)
  - The reason we need bloatware (app with tons of features... you probably never use): 80/20 rule never works and you need to have all the features to please all users... so you can make some $$$

From "My tagged link dump":

• Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies
  - I just love the HCI in minority report
• Aikido, Retreat or War. What’s your Microsoft strategy? (Alec Saunders .LOG)
  - So, how we dance with M$?
• The power of Sun in a big Blackbox (Ars Technica)
  - A guide tour to Sun's Project Blackbox actual

From "Pending to read":

• Web Accessibility Validation Tool, Check Accessibility Online by Truwex

From "My tagged link dump":

• Meta Tracker - A fast and small desktop search program like Beagle/Google search

From "My tagged link dump":

• Mailinator - A free service of one time email address for people who need it for whatever reason (i.e. subscribe to site)
• Bloggers != Journalists (The application delivery network) - Bloggers != Journalists, really? I see the power of bloggers as a way to balance the truth and lies (sometimes) unavoidably from within the system.

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.

From "Pending to read":

• Mailinator(tm) Blog: The Architecture of Mailinator