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A class that I’ve never graduated from… Scanning through all the old emails sitting in my inbox trying to sort them out, and found an email sent by my primary and junior high school classmate in Taiwan, containing a link to a BBS site where that class still meets. The whole class graduated from junior [...]

That’s basically what I’ve been doing for the whole day! Originally I was planning to paint the wall. For the preparation, I need to make sure the wall in the bedroom is paintable – so I started taking things out from the bedroom wall – including the old paint (the top part) and the wall [...]

… before 2004 hits. Can’t believe it when the time is flying so fast, and for the next 2 weeks life will be busy. We are trying to push out a new release at work (as always) while colleagues have already started taking leaves. A big roll out in Queensland will take place soon, and [...]

Yesterday I took a day off work, as our new place was destined for settlement. Well, not quite. Talked to the solicitor and figured out that the settlement won’t happen until Friday. D’oh. But it was still quite a hectic day yesterday. We inspected the place in the morning, as we originally requested someone to [...]

Just some personal notes on my recent approach to find an ISP that provides ADSL broadband in Australia. I am moving house in the next month or two, and I plan to change the ISP that provides my home Internet access, as well as the bandwidth for hosting this site. It is always good to [...]

The certificate that I used to access my emails via SSL IMAP has expired yesterday. Well, it is actually not the certificate used by the Courier IMAP software on my Linux server, but the self-signed CA’s certificate that I’ve created 3 years ago, which has been used to sign a few different applications. I should [...]

Peter Dean of “Heal Your Church Web Site” wrote a blog entry about Christian spams, which has raised quite a few questions. For example, what defines a spam email, as we usually discover different definitions from different authorities? Other interesting question raised is, whether it is okay to send “spam emails” (or unsolicited marketing emails) [...]

It is the end of year, and it’s the time where people come and go. Yesterday at church Joshua farewelled staff workers who will be leaving us, and announced some new workers who will be coming. Amongst the ‘going list’ will be all the MTS girls – however none of them will actually be leaving [...]

Just got off the plane a few hours ago, flying back from Melbourne to Sydney. Vivian and I spent a day and half in the state capital of Victoria, which it is relaxing, it was also quite exhausted. We went down there for company’s Christmas party. It was 70′s fashion theme, but I did not [...]

I’ve not been able to retrieve my blog share price over the past few day. This morning I checked their website, and found Blog Shares is no longer in operation after 9 months of trading. Basically the database went dead, and it is just too much effort to get the site back in shape as [...]

According to this article on Sydney Morning Herald, a new law passed federal parliament today that will penalise spam offenders in Australia up to 1 million dollars of fine. However, this new anti-spam law is still useless against the majority of email spams, who are originated overseas. There will be some exemptions, where religious group [...]

Since upgraded to Panther, I have not been “surfing” the Chinese telnet BBS from my Mac because I have been too lazy to install iTerm. Moreover, Panther’s Terminal.app is so much better and faster than the sluggish iTerm. A search on Google also reveals that it is much easier to use the built in Terminal.app [...]

I was a bit sick today so I ended up resting at home. Tonight I will be going to the MBF annual review, where Vivian and I will “try” to review what we have done in MYC this year. Tomorrow Vivian and I will be going to Canberra to visit old friends from church. 3 [...]

A series of articles comparing Calvinism and Arminianism written by Tim. An Introduction To Calvinism & Arminianism – giving some introductory and background information on Calvinism and Arminianism, and how do they relate to the Christianity and church today. An Introduction To Calvinism & Arminianism (Part 2) – Bible-backed explanation of TULIP – what Calvinists [...]

MTS 2003 farewell last night at St. Matthias. Many tearing moments. Except I felt a bit awkward being there. I am not leaving, nor an MTS, nor have I worked with many people who are leaving this year. One unconfirmed rumour I heard yesterday was that Peter Lim will be starting MTS next year. Moreover, [...]