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In City Bible Forum today, Peter K was interviewing Ian P, the Rector of St. Barnabas Broadway, which was burnt down last week. Peter K: So, how is the investigation on the cause of the fire? Ian P: God?! Everyone <laughs> Ian then talked about the sermons he worked on, which is on Genesis 50 [...]

Google has just released their Google Web Toolkit, a development library/toolkit for web applications which supposedly powers Google lines of products. It is still in beta, but available for download. It runs on both Windows and Linux. First of all, it is very different from Yahoo’s User Interface Library. Not just the look and feel [...]

Apple Store was off-line when I was browsing it. Then it came back on-line. Wow! Apple MacBook Finally it is out. The replacement for the aging iBook G4. Here’s some highlights: Comes in both white and black. Is Black the new Apple White? 1.83Ghz or 2.0Ghz Intel Core Duo, i.e. fast. Up to 2x SO-DIMMs [...]

Since I got my eBible.com invite, I have been playing with this “Web 2.0″ version of on-line Bible service. It is packed with heavy Javascript, dynamic HTML and “rounded corners”. Very “buzzword compliant”, but at the same time also provide a very useful tool if you like your on-line Bible to be more interactive. This [...]

為什麼修電腦永遠比不上看電影 — 特別是給在 CSE 學習的同學，從邏輯的角度來分析，為什麼光是會修電腦、裝網路、重灌暈倒叉P 是不夠的。不管你修了幾台，重灌幾次都是一樣的。

The story of Rich Young Ruler in the New Testament (Luke 18:18-34) has been taught many times in evangelistic meetings. I have previous blogged about what have I learnt from Warwick de Jersey on this passage, and Luke Wong also used the same passage in MBF evangelistic meeting last night, though I wasn’t present.

Not sure what is going on, and I have not seen others blog about it, but for the past few days Ping-O-Matic is not working for me. Web page took forever to load, if it loads at all. XML-RPC stalls all my posting. The only thing that seems to be working is their blogsite, which [...]

eBible.com, the Web 2.0 compliant Bible search engine, has entered into private beta. The screenshots look cool — much cleaner than the Bible Gateway, and packed with Web 2.0 features (whatever that means). Nice review here. Now I just need an invite.

HostingFu: Exploring DreamHost Promo/Discount Code. Just a plugin on an article I have written early this week. HostingFu was part of my recent addiction which I planned to use to document my web hosting experience (I am on 3 different hosting plans at the moment), and as you can see the site just went live [...]

While searching for “dreamhost” on Google, I spotted Angela’s new addiction — buying domains for enthusiasms over potential future projects. I think for the last 2 months I have also been struck by the same disease. Maybe not domain squatting, but sometimes I just do a WHOIS search, and “hey, how come no one has [...]

Saw this on SMH this morning. I was shocked — they have finally got it right. Something that is historically true over the past 2,000 years. Here’s the link. :)

Bram Moolenaar announced the released of Vim 7.0. New features since 6.4 include (sorry only list the ones that I am interested in). Vim script enhancements — now you can have List, Dictionary and Funcref inside Vim scripts. One step towards becoming Emacs? Spell checking built in — use :set spell to underline the mis-spelt [...]

Like last time, Peter Costello has done it again in his 11th budget. Personal tax cut for all, well, almost all workers anyway. Here’s the new rates: Current New from 1st July 2006 Income thresholds ($) Tax rate (%) Income thresholds ($) Tax rate (%) 0 – 6,000 0 0 – 6,000 0 6,001 – [...]

First of all, I have moved the Search Excerpt WordPress plugin from my old personal blog to here. It has also been added to my Subversion repository at DreamHost. Since I wrote the Search Excerpt plugin many moons ago I haven’t bothered to update it since (1) it works for me (2) I am lazy. [...]

OpenOffice.org is supporting Microsoft’s campaign of getting legitimate software, by proclaiming that you can get legal and free at the same time — by using OpenOffice.org! I can proudly say that I have not personally paid for a single copy of Microsoft Office in my entire lifetime — I have been using StarOffice 3 since [...]