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It seems like, Golden gate bridge is a famous final destination for some.... sadly.



There is always a way out.

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When I first start my blog back in 2003, two of the final candidates were NucleusCMS and Wordpress. At the time, Wordpress is still pre-1.0 and by looking at their feature list I decided NucleusCMS is more fun to play with.

Not that this is important...

Later, I re-visited my previous decision when Wordpress rapidly advances and gains popularity while Movable Type pisses off its users and caused a mass exodus. At that time, Wordpress has grow into something interesting as there is a huge community surrounding it. But I decided to stay with NucleusCMS because:
- NucleusCMS seem has better performance as my own benchmark shows.
- There are already a big developer community when compare to NucleusCMS, . It's crowded, IMHO. In NucleusCMS, I can make contributions on many fronts.
- I do not like certain aspect of how the project is being run.
- I like the skin/template system in NucleusCMS over theme in Wordpress. My main reason is: It is wrong to see PHP code in your theme.

I guess my instinct was not just from my bias over NucleusCMS, after all. PHP code in theme/skin/template is a security risk...

Yes, a skin can included links that is potentially harmful. But there is no code actually executed on my server, and browser has protection to malicious code if there is any XSS present. The same cannot be said for Wordpress theme as the example show.

In addition, I do not think a certified "marketplace" for theme is the answer to theme policing. A properly designed theme system is needed.

Are Hackers Exploiting WordPress Themes? - GigaOM

I was reading Mark Evans talking about why del.icio.us can be the next Google.

I have been using del.icio.us indirectly for a while now, mostly as a bookmarks service. I have NucleusCMS blogroll deposits all my links to it to facilitate sharing.

I agreed that del.icio.us indeed has great potential, but it need to come out of coma to be the next great Internet icon.

A re-ramp, if it happens, I would like to see a few things happened.
- a more exciting API to interact w/ the service, maybe with OpenSocial support.
- a "Do you mean this?" function, which suggest to user better tag to use. I believed one of the problems with tags is that there is hard to have the same tag semantic across the board to improve the accurate of a tag.
- a tag/link search on-line or via API.
- a mini-feed feature like in Facebook kinda already done by "your network".

Do you scare of a paper cops?

So, Gphone is all the talks on the net right now, but before that happened maybe I will do some shopping first. I am in a shopping mood recently, after I bought a Mac mini (more to that when I get my hands on it). Yes, you are right. Guy does shop too. hehehe.

There are few new products coming out that caught my eyes and spark some interests.
1 - Nokia N810
2 - HTC touch
3 - FIC Neo1973

The N810 has great potential; A Internet tablet with 4.13" display, 802.11b/g WIFI, bluetooth, USB2.0, GPS, webcam, and slide-out keyboard. It is primarily for use in anywhere with WIFI hotspot right now for the net and as mobile media device. It will be much better if it equipped with mobile WiMAX/LTE/UMB. Maybe it can be used to replace current 2G cellphone service with VoIP provided by a carrier.

HTC touch is a current generation Windows Mobile based phone, with WIFI. It's has all I wish for from my Moto Ming. But I think it should have GPS for its form-factor, and the size a bit big when compared to Ming.

Neo1973 is kind of big, but it runs Linux. If it has a 2.0MP camera in the finally version, I might get one.

Others on the radar: oqo 01/02 (too expensive), Sony (again too expensive) , iPhone/iPod Touch (not really (yet) a Apple fan), HTC Shift (nice, but too big as a phone)

Ideally, I wish my next phone has about the same form-factor as Moto Ming, EDGE, WIFI, build-in GPS, and hand-writing input (especially for Chinese).

We learned from history time after time that the best technology not always the winner. i.e. VHS VS beta, Windows VS OS/2

But this is about life and death, how people able to sleep at night when it seems that their own agenda is getting in front of the best interest of the people who risk their life?

I don't know who is the lier here, but more and more evident is mounting.

Dealing with those baddies around the world, our sons and daughters deserve the best.

Defense Review - Pinnacle Armor Level IV Dragon Skin Passes ESAPI-FAT Test at Aberdeen

Related reading:
Dragon Skin Armor Passes More Tests: Dr. Gary Roberts and 'Test Lab' Video

A good piece explains why DRM won't work. Those people struck in the past should realize that. Period.

Unless users are denied the right to the material physically (refuse to sale me that Harry Potter movie) or the mean to access it (do not manufacture DVD players), someone will find a way to get those bits and bytes to the open.

Please join the post-Internet world/economy.

Why DRM won't ever work | Tech News on ZDNet

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

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

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

As reported by naitik.

original @ here

GigaOM is asking this question: Now if you could get 24 megabits per second for $50 a month, what would you do with it?

Games? I don't do that.

Youtube? I don't religiously tune in.

Skype/VoIP? maybe, assuming I got my number (plus maybe an extra number in Hong Kong) for free... and yeah I am cheap and don't want to pay for SkypeIn/Out or Vonage. I always think it should be included as part of the plan as analog/voice coverage onto digital/data..... But more importantly, I am a geek and like to setup my own SIP gateway for the service so I can learn how it works.

p2p like bittorrent/donkey? I do a bit of it right now, mostly for downloading Fedora via bittorrent. I will use it more if p2p TV/movie/music/etc getting legit, with a price tag around $15/month (of course, I won't complain if it's free).

I run my own web server at home for all my geeky projects and experiments, so for sure I want much more up-link bandwidth.

I think it would be nice if I have enough up-link bandwidth to do music and TV streaming from my server, so I can watch my home TV/recording or listen to my music collection from anywhere.

Actually, what I really want is Hyperconnectivity. I want to able to connect from wherever I am to the Internet, and to stuff at my home server.

up-link, more up-link bandwidth, please!

早陣子見老闆談他的書,想他的個人真藏定是很豊富.

自少我就不是個讀書人,上課的書看得辛苦,其他的課外書也不是很常看. 後來中了毒上癮了玩電腦就只會看電腦書及有關的技術書.還有一點覺得看其他文學作品是無謂的. 當時英文閱讀能力不是太好,就算爸爸有很多英文 manual 也不看,多自己去買些台灣的中文版.但是怎麼的也看不明.自此不看中文電腦書.

離開香港到加國讀書後,因初時沒有電腦,加上要訓綀讀英文書的能力,所以開始找來一些小說來看.第一本由頭到尾看完的是 Tom Clancy 的 Clear and Present Danger, 初讀時差不多要每隻字查字典,當然進度很慢,完全談不上在看書. "看"了40多頁便停了,數個月後一天拿起來繼續,查了數頁字典後心想:看書不是這樣的,如果要每隻生字也查字典,一世也看不完一本書.所以把心一橫就不查字典了.當遇到生字時就"估"字或跳了那句算了.出奇地,大概也看得明書在說甚麼.當然有很多內容看得不是太清楚,但看得很快.更重要是開始享受看書.之後看了很多所有 Tom Clancy 和一些戰爭類型的小說/書.

到現在少了看書,多是看綱上的文字.或者我是在等下一本 Clear and Present Danger 或是 Cyptonomicon, 一本吸引我的書.

Pig reported on Twitter that we now have a shortcode to send update to from Canada.

It works, but I wonder if the local code cost me money. I have 100 free SMS from on my phone, a good way to use them is Tweeting.