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From SMH: Messages of faith, focus and failure, At St Andrew’s Cathedral the Anglican Archbishop, Peter Jensen, told the assembled crowd they were a bunch of failures: “But that’s the message of Christmas – the arrival of Jesus to save us from those failures.” In a very personal sermon, Dr Jensen spoke of his near failure in [...]

Last “working” day for me for 2008, as I will be taking 4 days off next week and resume “work” on the 5th of January. “Work” is in double quotation mark because it refers to only my office work during the day time at IRESS. I am pretty sure I’ll spend time with my websites. [...]

Saw this on YouTube — not the Justin Long vs John Hodgman kind of Mac vs. PC. Acting is a bit below par, but CGI is good. Conclusion — PC still beats the cr@p out of a MacBook, but is only annihilated because a single Windoze laptop is no match of dozens of MacPro workstations.

PasswordFox — Reveal the user names/passwords stored in Firefox. Very useful utility to actually show all your passwords stored on Firefox. It’s not a recovery tool as you still need to type in the master password. However even without master password it shows all the websites you have kept password for, which means I might [...]

It has been 3 and half years since I first added advertisement from Google AdSense on this website. The amount of traffic has been steady over the last 3 ½ years although I have been really slack blogging here recently. Here are some interesting statistics on monetising this blog with Google AdSense. Year Impressions Clicks Revenue 2005 87,xxx 2,1xx $372 2006 212,xxx 5,4xx $1,030 2007 205,xxx 2,6xx $498 2008 211,xxx 2,0xx $363 Note that I have [...]

When all the Taiwanese guys from my ex-uni course mates married Hong Kong girls was statistically scary, here is something even more creepy. They all have girls! So. We had Anna and Elsie. Then G and F had a baby girl last year. The 3rd couple had their first baby girl this September. We just came [...]

Alan and Jean are moving back to Hong Kong after college, and their bed will be temporarily stored at our place. Even though they live around 200 metres up the street, moving a queen size bed from a 4th floor apartment to my place across the road can still pose a challenge. Should we get [...]

It’s all over the news yesterday and today. Kogan, a relatively-small electronics shop in Melbourne famous for re-branded cheap Chinese goods, has pre-released their Google Android powered mobile phone. It can now be ordered online but won’t be shipping until late Jan 2009. There will be two models: Kogan Agora for AUD$299, and Kogan Agora Pro for [...]

Well. Even our PM Kevin Rudd has a Twitter account (and have more followers than I do, which is actually not surprising :). I guess that at least justifies me spending a bit too much time tweeting — I am just doing what our PM is also doing :) However only being able to tweet [...]

Got an SMS this morning from Three, my current mobile phone provider. As a prepaid 3Skypephone user for the last 12 months, I often get SMS-spammed by them so I was a bit hesitated to open it up. It turns out to contain a great news! Mobile Internet is now available to you! Surf your fav [...]