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Via Slashdot, the great firewall of China has recently blocked all access to TypePad, one of the best commercial blogging community on the Internet, powered by SixApart. That would include Glenn’s site (which probably might not be the reason why TypePad is blocked unless VoM news is linked). Maybe China does not want its people [...]

Accidentally hit this link on Wikipedia: Jinyong (金庸) I found it is interesting to see the description being presented in English. Even more interesting are the lame translations of the titles of his 15 wuxia novels – some of them are actually not just literal word for word translations – some actually have hints in [...]

I have came to realisation that Paul Grimmond did a computer science degree when he preached in Unichurch today. We looked at 1 Thessalonians 5 where Paul (the Apostle) told the congregation explicitly not to go and guess the date when Jesus is coming back. Paul described that meanwhile a lot of people try to [...]

Official Starwars site has announced the DVD release of the original trilogy (Episode IV, V & VI). The Star Wars Trilogy on DVD is a four-disc set that contains A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and a bonus disc of all new special features. Each of the four discs in [...]

Eeeks. Aarrgghh!! It has been 6 hours and the ADSL link is still not up. I got an SMS from SwiftDSL at close to 6 PM today, saying that the authentication at Telstra is having problem, and my ADSL link has been down since. I think I will be moving back to Internode after static [...]

I was browsing through some of the new entries appear on Artima.com‘s Python Buzz, and noted one MT powered blog site has clearly used one of the stylesheets I posted on Movable Style early this year. Looked at the source of the CSS, and found it alters only the colours. I then try to walk [...]

Mentally!!! I spent my morning going through piles of Apache logs and database tables to try to figure out the identity of two anonymous individuals posting in the MBF forum (“3am” and “aaaaaaaaaaaaa” that is). Scanning the IP address and user-agent identification, looping through past records, working out browsing routes, etc. I think I am [...]

One week of running Clam Anti-Virus and amavisd-new has resulted the following viruses quarantined: Virus Quantity Worm.SomeFool.Gen-1 85 Worm.SomeFool.P 62 Yaha.P 6 Worm.SomeFool.Gen-2 1 Total: 154 Interesting to note that, out of all the emails that have been quarantined, 119 (or 77.3%) of them are addressing one of the FOCUS mailing lists, with potential to [...]

Via Webmaster World, Google has released the latest version of its Google Deskbar. It is similar to Google Toolbar where it tries to integrate Google with the operating system user interface. However, instead of adding a toolbar to everyone’s browser of choice – Internet Explorer, Google Deskbar adds a new toolbar to your Windows taskbar. [...]

Just a collection of random thoughts after this weekend. Topic on Friday is one of the frequently asked questions – if God is love, then why is there hell? A sub-sequent discussion on Saturday with friends from the fellowship has raised another question – why do people believe in God/Christianity? A few possible reasons raised [...]

陳水扁以 6,471,970 票，50.11% 的得票比例，當選了中華民國第十一任總統。 Well, I don’t usually talk about politics on this weblog, especially concerning a place that I no longer lives in. But the presidential election yesterday is probably one of the most important election in the recent decades, so I started refreshing my browser every few minutes in the evening to check [...]

While browsing Bloglines, I discovered that it is actually possible to see the list of people that have subscribed to your blogsite. Well, at least those who opt to share their subscription lists. Moreover, you can look at what other blogsites their have subscribed to. My interesting discovery of the day. This does solve half [...]

I have just got Postfix on my Mandrake Linux box to talk to Clam AntiVirus via amavisd-new, which also does spam filtering as well. It uses Postfix’s content filtering interface to pipe the incoming emails through another SMTP server to quarantine potential viruses. Because AMaViS also integrates with Spam Assassin, I have thus dropped my [...]

I just realised that Vodafone No PlanTM users have just got some extra bonus. Here is an extract from the No PlanTM page: And as if that wasn’t enough, now with no plans? you can call Vodafone to Vodafone within Australia for 20c. That’s just 20c for the whole call (generous call caps apply, excludes [...]

Some links for boring Friday. Before that, here’s my attempt on Friday Five this week. I can foresee a busy weekend incoming. Too many things to do… What was the last song you heard?Sweet Child O’ Mine of GnR What were the last two movies you saw?Haven’t seen any movie this year!!! Last two I’ve [...]