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10 years come and go. There's been ups and downs.

Let's hope the next 10 years going to be better.

From "Pending to read":

• htsh - A shell access via http

From "My tagged link dump":

• Project Honey Pot - A distributed spam tracking network - I am going to try take back my Intenret!
• 10 Ideas to Improve GNOME (VentureCake)

From "My tagged link dump":

• 十個不喜歡Twitter的理由 (牢騷絮語)
• Twitter玩意權威指南：Software篇 (Jan’s Tech Blog)
• Songbird - A multi-platform desktop web media player
• XHTML Friends - An XFN search engine/crawler/visualiser

From "Pending to read":

• Vuze - HD movies and videos via azureus bittorrent technology

親情誠可貴，孝道價更高；若為愛情故，兩者皆可拋.

From "My tagged link dump":

• 三百磅肥妹減肥大變身 (愛:設計)
  - Wow.

還記得這是中學時中文科的一篇,但現在已忘了出自那裏了.....

自從早陣子交通意外之後,對一些事的看法不同了.以前認為一些事只會發生在他人身上,因為一自己可以控制.但現在發生在自己身上了,事實是這些事情可以不知如何地發生,不能解釋.我現在也不明白怎麼可以發生這樣的意外.

不如意事真的可以十常八九,以前常想這只是上一代生活艱難才會如是說,我們這年代的不是這樣的了.但現在回想世事不如意的真是很多,只可以興幸自己不如意事不是十常八九.

這事之後,一個同事對我說: "As you get older you learn that you actually fall a lot, but the important thing is to get back up."

我除了向前看,以後更小心之外,還可以怎樣?

I just went to see Pirates of C. today (finally). As usual, they showed a bunch of trailers. One of them is Stardust, where I saw a familiar face.... I was thinking to myself; I know him, he is... he is... he is... what's his name again?

You can tell I am really brain struck at that moment, I tried really hard to recall the name but getting nowhere. Then I pull out my Moto Ming and bring up Google via GPRS, search for "Heat Val Kimer" (yes, I spell Kilmer wrong). I remember this fellow was in this movie with the Iceman. This lead me to IMDB.

The answer is Robert De Niro! Of course.

The wireless Internet saves the day. But then I realized I have used over 500KB already this month.... all I did was a few tweets and a Google search. My Fido GPRS plan included 500KB for $5.....

Another good testimonial on how useful(less) current GPRS plan on Fido. I think I really need a reasonable wireless Internet service. Hyper-connectivity, please!

From "My tagged link dump":

• Tuning LAMP systems, Part 1: Understanding the LAMP architecture
• Tuning LAMP systems, Part 2: Optimizing Apache and PHP
• Tuning LAMP systems, Part 3: Tuning your MySQL server

From "My tagged link dump":

• Top Ten of Programming Advice NOT to follow (Chryler) - Quote: "You should think before you code. Go ahead, but think for hours, not days. Don't kid yourself into believing you can sketch an entire design document with UML diagrams and everything without making mistakes." Exactly what I think, design/doc is just a pre-lim step to see if we are heading to a right direction.
• Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby - Funky book on Ruby
• Six ways to write more comprehensible code - So common sense, but yet we forget
• Another 10 web operating systems reviewed

This screenshot says it all, do you see TVB has porgramme like this? Maybe, but quality and frequency of this is few and far between.



This is just one of so many good quality shows RTHK did each year.

Related reading:
- Just a Sidekick
- Support RTHK

還記得家中有第一部電腦是大概小學五年級時.媽媽,弟弟和我在暑假到美加探親,回家時發現爸爸買了一台萍果紙箱一般大的電腦.這時apple還未流行.

爸爸用這台電腦來做stock research,我和弟弟就當然是玩游戲.當年還沒有Internet去下載,所以我和弟弟要打字輸入BASIC寫的程式.

有時晚上爸爸會在電腦前東攪攪,西弄弄.我說他在和電腦鬧交,漸漸也對這東西產生興趣.我想我現在這麼沉迷電腦是多得他所致.

爸親節快樂.

From "My tagged link dump":

• GeeXboX - A embedded Linux distribution turn PC into a Home Theater PC (HTPC)
• FUPPES - A UPnP media server
• djmount - A linux UPnP client that mount all media on the network as a filesystem
• uShare UPnP A/V Media Server - A UPnP media server for Linux
• 回歸10年 流行過什麼？ (come back to love)
• 二班頭女歌手群揪 (唱) (聰薄log)

From "My tagged link dump":

• Magnum 60 Years
• XBill - Bill try to hijack your Linux box, and you have to defeat him
  - I miss this game so much... it's gone from Fedora for some reason

From "My tagged link dump":

• Facebook's plan to hook up the world (CNN) - Interesting to see Facebook become a platform, a lock-in for user.....

From "My tagged link dump":

• Top Web Apps in Hong Kong
  - web 2.0 market survey in Hong Kong

From "My tagged link dump":

• 香港的Blogosphere有多大? (搜尋篇) (為老不專)
• 香港的Blogosphere有多大? (博駁博篇) (為老不專)
• 香港的Blogosphere有多大? (Mysinablog篇) (為老不專)
• 香港的Blogosphere有多大? (剪紙篇) [完] (為老不專)
• 香港Blogosphere清單 (為老不專)

From "My tagged link dump":

• 救救中文維基百科宣言 (Confide in me)
  - 有人嘅地方,就有是非/鬥爭.

From "My tagged link dump":

• 所有法例網上適用？師兄炸MBC要在網上坐監？ (五師兄字)
  - Quote "但是警方強調 : 「所有現實世界防止罪案的法例同樣適用於網上世界」啊！那麼 online game 算不算是「網上世界」呢？"

考緊第二次會考(第一年得1科合格,所以repeat).

結果3個E,其他F哂(所以有第三次).

18年了.事實就是事實.福佳都改變唔到.

From "My tagged link dump":

• 禁色恐慌 (http://www.speechlessness.com)
  - So sad to see the freedom of speech is under siege in Hong Kong.

As reported by naitik.

original @ here