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I wrote an email to the Australian Personal Computers this morning, replying their question on charges for incremental OS upgrades.

At the end of tonight’s evangelistic meeting, after all the announcement, suddenly Jack stepped up to make another announcement. He wrote 13th of Decemeber on the black board, without saying a word. Everyone was wondering what he meant. What was so secretive… Then there comes the announcement. Jack and Virginia have decided to get married [...]

Yeah! Friday! This week SCO has gong crazy. Terminating the IBM’s license, claiming someone in Fortune 500 actually bought their Linux license, executives hype up the share price with PR’s and then dump their own stock, etc. Have fun with your last minute struggle, guys! But I won’t write about SCO here, nor will I [...]

There has been quite a lot of TCP port 135 activities lately. This new Internet worm has been hitting quite a lot of people across the globe, and there is no exception at work. First of all, yesterday morning J in Canberra called in asking what has happened to his new Windows XP computer that [...]

I was getting too bored and tired last week, so my mind drifted off and tried to install and run an IRC server on my Linux box, for those people from FOCUS Net who have been requesting on-line chatting service over the years. I downloaded and compiled: Undernet IRC daemon 2.10.11.04 – this is the [...]

Weekend is over. This gotta be the weekend that I slept the most for the year 2003 so far, and I am pretty sure that I won’t sleep more than I had for the rest of the year. Friday night 11:45pm. Saturday morning 6:15am. Saturday night 9:30pm!!! Sunday morning 6:00am. Sunday night 11:30pm. Monday morning [...]

I recevied this simple illustration from an ex-coursemate mine, on how different stages in a software development life cycle sees the project itself. Can’t agree more…

Starring at the glare coming from the computer monitor, the light does not shine upon my heart. Looking at the code, I am deeply frustrated. You know what a good design pattern is. You have a good architecture view of the system. However that will not stop the hacks leaking into a good design. It [...]

Vivian just came back from Moore Public Lecture tonight, and told me that Alan Cole has just passed away a few hours ago. God has taken his faithful servant away to him. He has finished the race, and ready to receive his crown… In some sense it is sad. I only hear him preach once, [...]

A few days ago TypePad has released it’s pricing plan, and the features for its three blogging packages. To get blogging started it would cost you USD$4.95 per month. If you want up to 3 blogs, photo albums and domain mapping, then it will cost you USD$8.95 per month. If you feel like a Pro, [...]

Not really the Homer Simpsons on channel 10′s TV program who is the American symbol, but our very own “Homer” who frequent the MBF forum. Last Saturday, Homer posted something on the MBF forum, asking other MBF’ers to solve Lisa’s dilemma. Then little request draws some other Springfield residents to answer Homer’s problem. Some MBF’ers [...]

Peter Costello, the Treasurer of Australia, will announce a board enquiry into the cause of rocking housing price today to address the deepening home affordability crisis, especially in Sydney today, read it on The Sydney Morning Herald… Sometimes on Wednesday nights, when Vivian and I were having dinner, we will be browsing the just-arrived weekly [...]

Last night Mandarin Bible Fellowship had a welcome dinner for the new students. We usually do this kind of thing – a package of some ice breaking games, introduction to our church, a short talk and a nice meal afterwards – at the beginning of each session. We did get some freshly-landed students coming, but [...]

Busy busy this week. Little time to surf. So I’ll start with this week’s Friday Five. What time do you wake up on weekday mornings? Between 6 and 7, whenever the alarm defeats me. Do you sleep in on the weekends? How late? No. Not applicable. Usually we have things on Saturday morning (Yum Cha, [...]