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ESV English-Greek Reverse Interlinear New Testament, published by the Good News & Crossway, will be released this October, that features ESV English text with Greek underneth. It would be useful for someone who does not read Greek (i.e. me) to pick up the links. A bit pricy though, pre-selling at USD$49.95.

OpenLaszlo 3.0 is now officially released. Lots of new features here, most notably the LPS-less deployment. It would be a nice welcome, as I don’t see how one should limit your backend platform when choosing a front-end environment. Laszlo has been one of many things that I would love to play with. Time. Oh need [...]

Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications. Jesse James Garrett defines what Ajax (Asynchronised Javascript and XML) is, and how its combination with DHTML and DOM can change the way web application is written. Seems to be hottest thing since slice bread at the moment, except we’ve been using this “Ajax” model at work since [...]

Updated 2 May 2005: It is SOLD, for a mere $130 Australian dollar. Not as much as I like, but well, everyone finds a bargain on eBays… It is probably going to be my very last entry on Psion. Not that I have written much in the past. As of Psion, nothing has really happened [...]

Today I just realised that WordPress does not actually delete the incoming comment/trackback, but instead obliviously inserts them into the database with “approved” field marked as “spam”. Yes – every single comment, that has been categorised as spam, is still stored inside my WordPress database, even though I have never received any notification, nor is [...]

English Standard Version Bible is having its own blog site. Apparently they are powered by WordPress as well. And now they are giving their Bible away for those who link to them int their blogroll.

New toy at work! Dell E1905FP UltraSharpTM 19 inch LCD monitor right in front of my desk, and this thing is massive. Oh well, some developers got two for dual display, and that is spelt MASSIVE. I am hooking it up to my Dell Latitude D600, and its 14″ screen is small, dim, lack of [...]

Slashdot reports Adobe buys Macromedia for USB$3.4 billion. Do I smell the monopoly for the graphics productive software? And we will see further domination of Flash for the interactive websites. I wonder what will Microsoft and the Open Source world will react to it.

Vade-Mecum is the plucker file viewer for the Windows Mobile devices. I’ve used Plucker in my Palm III days, and absolutely loved it. Great that it is also available on Pocket PC’s.

Burnham reckons that Friendster is in trouble as its model of social network application is not innovative. It still uses the possibility of “dating” as its main attraction, which in reality has very limited audiences and short participation life time. There are many others that are more innovative, and some has just got too much [...]

Ross Gittins of SMH argued that a cut on the top-marginal tax might do worse to the society, because of our rivalry nature and the zero-sum game in status seeking. Very interesting read. Maybe governments of Hong Kong and Singapore should continue raising their income tax.

Wow. Had a busy weekend.

Drupal is releasing their latest and greatest, which is 4.6.0 at the moment. This is great, especially after I’ve spent my afternoon setting up a site using the old 4.5.2 version. D’oh. This always happens.

7 ways on how to shuffle a deck of cards, with lots of images and demo video. I better learn this one. One reason why I dislike card games is that I usually just make a mess when shuffling.

I think I now understand why goods and services are so damn expensive here in Australia – because the real wealthy people usually only pay a little bit more than half price for those items, that results the poor people (or not so informed people) getting ripped off.