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Apparently a new version of “God” has been released at version 6.0. It promises to be “softer, gentler and completely compatible“, which I believe is the product of extensive market research on the majority of the user groups. Here is their press release: All-New God Version 6.0 Brought to you by today’s Christians. Quite clearly [...]

Here is the score on Saturday: England: 20 Australia: 17 And that concludes the months long Rugby World Cup 2003. The weather has been terrible throughout the weekend. It has been raining for the whole weekend, and the maximum temperature today was forecasted at only 19 degree Celsius. You won’t believe that it is the [...]

Instead of a Friday evening quickies on interesting web links, I will just have some short ideas that ran through my head today.

Last night Vivian and I went for Wednesday night shopping at Alexandria, as both Megamart and Bunnings both close at 9pm during weekdays. By the time I got home at around 9:30pm, I became quite a bit poorer than what I was yesterday morning. Things purchased: A SleepMaker queen-size mattress for our new home, delivered [...]

According to this announcement, sourced from Jeremy Zawodny’s blog, MySQL AB‘s new product, MaxDB which is a re-branded and enhanced version of SAP DB, has just been released. It is a GPL’ed product offering both Free Software license, or a commercial license for those who do not wish to be restricted. I think the most [...]

I was getting a bit lazy to write this down, but since Elsie asked about it, I might as well noting it down before losing it.

Friday Random Quickies section of this blog was started with an aim of flushing out a week worth of interesting links I’ve read. But it did not really work out: I read much more than just the links here, but I did not had a chance to note them down. It has somehow become bi-weekly. [...]

This morning I browsed through an on-line photo album set up by my primary school/junior high classmate in Taiwan. Photos of old classmates getting together to have fun. Hiking in the mountains. Dining in the restaurant. Meeting up at someone’s home. Some faces are easy to recognise, but some have already escaped my memory. Most [...]

Last time I blogged about Jesus of Nazareth verses Neo of the Matrix, after I saw the Matrix Reloaded movie. Here’s some other conclusions after watching the Matrix Revolution. SPOILER WARNING: Surely I will talk about more than just the special effects of GFX, but the actual story itself. So if you have not watched [...]

Somehow during the day I felt the Internet was a bit slow at work today. Try to do a ping to another box on the net, and the return trip time has been fairly irregular. Open up the MRTG page for the router in a web browser, and then BANG! This is what I have [...]

Megamart in Alexandria has its grand opening last Saturday, and that was how we spent our Saturday morning. It was quite heavily crowded when we got there at 9:30 in the morning, and there was already a long queue of people waiting to check out. It was a huge warehouse that sells furniture and home [...]

What is it like for a conservative Sydney Anglican Chinese coming to a Taiwan-American charismatic music evangelistic meeting with lots of singing and sharing? Quite a lot of education, I’ll say, and that was what has happened last night. Instead of going to the This Way Up launch, some of us went to the Heaventunes [...]

WARNING: Spoiler ahead. Read on at your own risk. Straight after the MBF‘s Friday night activities, nearly a dozen of us went to the Randwick Ritz to watch the Matrix Revolution, starting at 9:30pm. The movie runs a bit over two hours. And the first conclusion I had after watching the final episode of Matrix [...]

Okay. I have installed the whole Mac OS X from scratch, and I’ve lost all my fink packages. Instead of installing the latest 0.6 from source, I decided that I would like to try something different. Darwinport comes to the picture. Instead of using Debian’s dpkg to manage source/binary packages, it uses BSD’s port system. [...]

I rang up the mortgage broker this morning to cancel my pre-approved loan, as my financial situation has changed, ie getting a better deal. I thought he would be quite disappointed as I would imaging it is a lot of effort getting all the documents sorted out for your client, yet he did not get [...]