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What will you write in that email, that is destined to loop all the way back to you in 20 years time? Forbes.com apparently provides this service. The E-Mail Time Capsule allows you to send an email back to yourself in up to 20 years time, and from its description, it seems to have a [...]

Via digg.com, Visual Studio Express is now free download for one year from MSDN website, and from the FAQ, you can apparently use it commericially and for production sites. And with its “free for one year” deal, it just means that Microsoft might start charging those downloads after Nov 2006, but what has been downloaded [...]

Steve Vai plays “Tender Surrender” on Google Video Search. This is fully sick. “Tender Surrender” on the Alien Love Secrets EP was actually one of my favourites, and looking at how it was performed is amazing. Steve Vai is truly a show man. By the way, you can download videos in FLV format on Google [...]

I love Google Video Search — great way to waste your evening and plenty of bandwidth. However, I hate to watch video on a Flash player embeded inside a web browser window. I also hate to download the same video again and again every time I want to watch it. So yesterday evening I hacked [...]

Via Slashdot, SGI‘s stock has been delisted from NYSE. Again, that reminded me how much turbulence IT world has. Back in my days, SGI used to make sexiest boxes for un*x geeks (wow! look at the curve of that blue O2), and contributed influential technologies (OpenGL, STL, etc). I still remember computer shows in the [...]

It was great that Al Stewart is back preaching at the City Bible Forum for the rest of this year. He’s one of my favourite Bible teacher. Sharp and clear his preaching is, and they are always challenging. The passage for this week is on Luke 12:49-57. Al started with different images of Jesus people [...]

lukhnos — 一個拼錯了二十年的名字。原來倉頡（中文輸入法）這二十年來被拼成 Changjei 是當初倚天不知道哪一位工程師半夜三點趕工中不小心給拼出來的。不過我根本沒有注意到的原因是 — 我到現在都還只會用微軟新注音！

Windows Live “beta” — absolutely the most talked about topic on Internet over the last two days. Heavy “Ajax” that has been all over the web these days which I have started to hate. Doesn’t work on Firefox yet, and it constantly crashed my Internet Explorer. Still, sounds like Microsoft has finally decided to ditch [...]

Via lesscode. Alex Bunardzic, who might have recently found himself hated by many ‘database geeks’, quoted this interview with David Heinemeier Hansson and wrote another article on the myth of data integrity, where he debunked the ‘sacred cows’ of the corporate IT practices — the data integrity of the relational database. His main points were: [...]

Stuffs accomplished this weekend. Installing Windows — our TV broke down due to bad memory, which subsequently ruin the whole box. Got a cheap replacement from eBay two weeks ago, and only had managed to reinstall Windows properly last night. Hopefully that will be the last for this year. Installing Linux — install a refresh [...]

FuCoder.com is now hosted on DreamHost. Using the cheapest hosting plan, but it still provides me far more than I need. 4.8Gb space and 120Gb bandwidth a month. Shell on Debian-based Linux server. Cron job. Etc. It is actually the first time I signed up to a hosting account — most my other sites are [...]

Via ESV Blog, Logos Bible Software Blog — a weblog that talks about, hmm, Bible software in general, especially (probably) the industrial leading Logos. Lots of very interesting entries.

Matt Mullenweg announced a new spam combating service — Akismet. If you are a personal blogger, or pro-blogger-wannabe who cannot make more than $500 a month, Akismet is free for you to use. If it is a commercial site, or you are making big bucks from your blogsites — then a commercial license needs to [...]

(Update: Actually, there is no point setting up QEmu, playing around with VMX file, etc to try to bootstrap the disk image. There is actually no point getting VMWare Player. Just go an install the free VMWare Server — it is so much better.) Me. I am stuck. On Windows. Well, not really by choice. [...]

詩篇 117 (和合本) 1萬國啊，你們都當讚美耶和華！萬民哪，你們都當頌讚他！2因為他向我們大施慈愛；耶和華的誠實存到永遠。你們要讚美耶和華！ 上個星期天在教會裡，Grimmo 講道的經文就是這一段詩篇。整本聖經中最短的一章，包含了在詩篇裡重複過無數次的文字 — 似乎又是另一篇感謝耶和華的短詩。 但直到我們了解在第二節裡的「我們」指的並不是星期天早上那些聽道的「我們」，而是將近三千年前寫這詩的以色列人，我們才能體會到耶和華的慈愛是何等的大。要是一位身為耶和華選民的以色列人可以因耶和華的信實而頌讚祂，我們這些不配面對神的外邦人、這些生下來就拒絕祂的敵人，就更應當讚美祂的慈愛與大能。因為祂記得拯救與祂有約的以色列人，我們才有幸可以通過他們而得救。 羅馬書 11:28-31 (和合本) 28就著福音說，他們為你們的緣故是仇敵；就著揀選說，他們為列祖的緣故是蒙愛的。29因為神的恩賜和選召是沒有後悔的。30你們從前不順服神，如今因他們的不順服，你們倒蒙了憐恤。31這樣，他們也是不順服，叫他們因著施給你們的憐恤，現在也就蒙憐恤。