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Well. Another Star Wars related post. Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” with Star Wars characters. Very well done, especially when you compare with the original.

Grocery Store Wars – not long ago in a supermarket not so far away… Cucumber Skywalker, under the apprenticeship of Obi Wan Cannoli, must learn the way of Farm, fight the evil villian Lord Tader, and destroy the Death Watermelon. Very very funny.

Yeah. Which one? It is so hard to decide… Xbox 360 Or Playstation 3 Both of them running cell processor that is in the same architecture as PowerPC G5. Oh so yummy. I just feel that I can put all those teraflops into good use. But the likeliness of having any one of them sitting [...]

How to report software issues to the vendor using screen capture built into Microsoft Windows: When the error message pops up, press [Ctrl]-[Print Screen] to capture the whole screen into clipboard. Open Microsoft Word, and press [Ctrl]-V to paste the captured error message into a Word document. Print out that Word document. Send the print [...]

Here is one disgusting picture: Scott McNealy (SUN) and Steve Ballmer (MSFT) Shake hands Here is the press on how Sun and Microsoft has been working together over the last year. Both of them look very happy and were smiling towards each other. I must be very out-of-date with the industry, as I have thought [...]

There has been quite a news lately on Australia universities and overseas students, mostly bringing out the dark side of this education business. This article on the Sydney Morning Heralds, “Big selling degrees prop up regional university“, looked at how the full fee paying students have transformed how the Central Queensland University is to be [...]

從大富翁到大博客 – a monopoly game that uses blogging themes. Instead buying lands and properties, you buy popular websites, blogging tools, instant messengers and search engines. I would love to see one of those in K-Mart.

Native Jabber support for iChat on Mac OS X Tiger. Oh man. This rocks. You can connect directly to a Jabber server from iChat, and can search your buddy list from the Addressbook.

Thank you Peter! It is great to know that I will be $1,350 richer next year even without any pay rise.

Postgrey is a Postfix Greylisting Policy Server. It will drop the connection if the tuple of (client IP, sender, recipient) has never been listed, and hopefully the peer MTA will resend the mail required per RFC. Sounds like a wonderful idea to reduce spam/virii, but I wonder what the delay would be like.

2 security alerts concerning Mozilla Firefox, one can extract cross-site cookies and another one escalate to system priviledge via Mozilla’s extension architecture. As a browser reaches its critical mass, security holes and exploits will popup from no where like there is no tomorrow. That’s why I use telnet or netcat to browse the Internet these [...]

I was just about to start preparing for the talk this Friday, something on the final coming of Jesus and the judgement over the living and dead. Then I remembered, “hey, didn’t we do eschatology in one of the Mid-Year Conference?” Yes indeed, the topic for MYC 2000 is “Anno Domini”, which is about the [...]

A new version of Scripturizer for Javascript has been released which will utilise ESV Popup Javascript if it is available. Download Scripturizer.js 1.2 Changes: Feature: If Scripturizer.version is “esvpopup”, and ESV Popup Javascript has also been loaded, then a link to popup ESV reference will be generated. If ESV Popup is not yet defined, it [...]

HowStuffWorks.com runs a series on how lightsabre works. That looks useful – only if a down ‘n’ out Jedi Master can sell his one to me for quick cash…

Google has just launched their web accelerator product, which installed locally on your desktop, opens port localhost:9100 to listen to proxy requests, modify your web browser’s configuration to use a Proxy Auto-Config file downloaded from there, and then start optionally serving web pages from Google’s gigantic cache farm.