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For this Saturday, I went to the SCEA Training Day at St. Ives Christ Church Anglican. It was my 2nd time participating in a SCEA event, and I think the last time I came was sometime last year at Burwood Presby (can’t seem to find my blog entry on that). There weren’t that many FOCUS [...]

On Friday (29 August 2003) night the Mandarin Bible Fellowship has its evangelistic meeting. It has to be our 5th evangelistic meeting in this session so far, and we had nearly one every week! The talk was on ‘do all religions lead to the same god?‘, and it has been something discussed very often in [...]

Another Friday. I am going to give a talk at Mandarin Bible Fellowship tonight on “Does all religions lead to the same God?“, and tomorrow I will be heading down to SCEA training day. Busy busy weekend. Anyway, here’s this week’s pile of junk resulted from too much surfing.

I will probably be connected to MSN Messenger network for one more month, before Microsoft cuts me off from their IM network on the 15th of October. This is what I received as a chat message from MSN this morning, when I connected to their service: You are running a version of messenger that requires [...]

Woke up this morning to check email, and found some annoying bounced mail. <xxxxxxx@campusbiblestudy.org>: host mail.campusbiblestudy.org[202.7.89.205] said: 591 No mail will be accepted. Your host is in a Black List. Please see <http://relays.osirusoft.com/> Here is another one. <xxxxxxx@idx.com.au>: host pop.idx.com.au[203.14.30.10] said: 554 Service unavailable; [150.101.196.246] blocked using inputs.relays.osirusoft.com Aarrgghh!! My mail server has been black-listed [...]

So, what makes the last Monday of August special? Nothing. I just need a title to talk about the weekend, that’s all. This weekend was not too busy after all, so on the way driving to work this morning I felt quite relaxed. However the heavy wind yesterday has left the Eastern suburbs in a [...]

Vivian and I usually have chat over ministry issues, especially those people we are working with. Before lunch today, we are talking about a particular individual she was trying to follow up with. We talked about how people can have the head knowledge on who Jesus is and what he has done, but this head [...]

Oops. It is 8 minutes pass 5 already. Gotta run for Earnest’s birthday dinner at Kensington Pekin Restaurant. Here’s a list of interesting links I’ve collected through out the week. Bye all! Blogs There is a very good article on Jedi’s BLOG – 劃地自限 (yes, this article is in Chinese). “Jedi” talks about his thoughts [...]

Last night at the FOCUS Team, Sam from Pelita gave a talk on “Christian apologetic” during the common hour, i.e. how do you defend the gospel when you are challenged by non-Christians. Topic for last night was this fairness question – what about those who have never heard? Is God fair to condemn those who [...]

I felt ashamed to include my administration/development experience on SCO OpenServer/UnixWare on my resume, so I cleaned it up. Now these three letters ‘SCO’ is nowhere to be seen. Who needs someone with SCO experience these days anyway, except if I am a lawyer or manager in public relation. And I don’t want Linux zealots [...]

This article is meant to be a continuation from my previous attempt to integrate SpamAssassin with Courier IMAP. Quite a few people emailed me asking about receiving new emails on a shared Courier IMAP folder. In my original implementation, all the flagged spams will be delivered to a shared maildir by procmail, however Courier does [...]

Two nights ago I upgraded iTerm to 0.7.6 (from 0.7.0) . I quite like the new bookmark interface, and I found it better than the old address book. Rendering seems to be a bit faster now, but the speed is still no challenge to PuTTY on Win32, my favourite terminal application. However the new version [...]

This thing is driving me nuts. I felt rage mingled with a bit of sorrow in my head, and I felt unrest for the past few days. It has been troubling me, and I want to find a solution. Standing on a tight rope trying to balance myself, and I have to take every step [...]

This morning the sermon at International Unichurch, the passage preached was Ecclesiastes 4-6. Simon and Jieni were the Bible readers for that passage, and they encountered an interesting differences between ESV “versions“. Here is an extract of Ecclesiastes 5:3 from the English Standard Version bible.

I did some search on the Google today, and landed on this funny piece of geek humour: This has been percolating in the back of my mind for a while. It’s a scene from The Empire Strikes Back reinterpreted to serve a valuable moral lesson for aspiring programmers. Exterior: Dagobah — Day With Yoda strapped [...]