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IronPython – a Python implementation to run on .NET CLR with Mono. Very Promising.

After half a month of silence, SixApart has finally updated the license pricing for Movable Type, and the new price is in favour of the bloggers. Welcome back the “unlimited authors” option! For individual/non-commercial users, the pricing structure is simple. 1 Author 3 Blogs Free 5 Authors Unlimited Blogs $69.95 Unlimited Authors Unlimited Blogs $99.95 [...]

Ex-atheist is more excited about his conversion to a Mac user than his conversion to Christianity. This guy is “on-fire” with his Mac evangelism, but little was talked about on his Christianity. I wish he is more enthusiastic about sharing the real gospel on how one can be saved eternally.

Mozilla Firefox 0.9 has been released with a new theme. Lots of bug fixes and enhancements, and overall it just feels smooth. Days of IE are indeed numbered.

First virus for mobile phone, targeting the Symbian operating system through Bluetooth. Sounds like there is still a benefit to carry around my 5 year old “brick” phone.

An easy way to crash a unpatched Linux kernel on x86 system with only shell access. This looks bad. Quite bad actually. But everyone should have known that Linux with shell access is just not secure – too many local exploits are out there.

是啊，女皇的生日在澳洲這種為 Long Weekend 而活的社會，有誰會不快樂啊？又怎麼可能英國女皇每年都剛好在星期一過生日﹣這明明就是老百姓為了放假但想不到藉口，就以為慶祝沒什麼關係的女皇的誕辰為由，來好好地放自己一天假。當然我也沒麼好抱怨的﹣本人也為此偷懶了一天。為了表達不怎麼由衷的感謝也只好叫一聲，「生日快樂」！

… when the little 1-year-old Calvin stopped crying in my arms. That is the sense of satisfaction that I have not previously experienced. I could actually calm a child! It was my first time working in Creche.

sh, perl & ruby are best scripting languages? It is surely going to start a flame war. But my next language would be OCaml.

Matthew Mullenweg has fixed up several problems regarding Staticize WP plugin, including dynamic output within the static outputs. I have temporarily turned off the Staticize plugin on this site due to many problems I have encountered, but I might give Matt’s copy a try later.

4 days after I joined Gmail, I have received 3 Gmail invites! I am starting to think that Google is going to kick start Gmail in the same style as Orkut, which is by invitation only by the current users, instead of providing a public form for everyone to register. However, it does make the [...]

Playing with a Quiz about a software that I have stopped using for this site. 5. Dan Black Belt Your skills as a both a teacher and practicioner of MT-Do are now at a level few people will reach. You are most likely a worthy contributor in spreading the noble practice of MT-Do to others. [...]

Have some websites that you really really want to get rid off? This Russian guy who advertised in email can help! You can knock one down for a good 24 hours for only USD$150! Just don’t try it on this site.

Budget Design written by Didier Hilhorst and Dan Rubin in PDF format. Free download now, and 9 bucks after 7 days.

One issue of Bill Zeller’s Staticize plugin for WordPress, which I have discussed yesterday, is its incompatibility with the Search Hilite plugin. Visitor landed on a cached page via a search engine query would not get keywords highlighted, and one must also turn Search Hilite off so that keyword highlights would not accidentally be cached [...]