Oct 26 2008

Something You Don’t Want to See on a Real Plane

Yesterday when we were in transit at the Hong Kong airport, Anna and Elsie were playing with the kids’ ride that simulates the cockpit of a commercial jet. There’s nothing real about the cockpit, but I guess it does not really matter as kids are happy with anything that resemble buttons and blink.

I am B-B-Back!

I am back to Sydney this morning after 2 weeks of so-called “holidays” in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Took the night flight from Hong Kong to Sydney and it wasn’t pretty with two tired children… Well. The trip is good. Visited family that I have not seen for a while. Met with some primary school [...]

Oct 11 2008

OpenOffice.org 3.0 – Download it Now!

Download Squad: OpenOffice.org 3.0 coming Monday, download it today. From the list of OO.o mirrors, AussieHQ and PacificNet already have 3.0 binaries there (dated 6 Oct). Time to download and upgrade! (and more work for me to support ODF 1.2 at work)…

Are We There Yet?

Looking at Dow Jones and ASX this week was painful. It goes down, and down, and down like there is no tomorrow. Fortunately market is closed on weekends so people can take a breath — thinking about when it is going to end. It’s a bit like taking kids for a long flight. “Are we [...]

Oct 8 2008

Whirlpool Forums Now Showing Google Ads

Mondey evening — trying to fix someone’s old Compaq by reinstalling Windows XP. Not the best way to enjoy the long weekend but I guess someone just needs to do it. I was having some issue with the software that I was trying to install so I googled it with the vanilla IE7. First result [...]

Oct 2 2008

Catch Up Week

It’s going to be the week of catching up. Last Friday I went and picked up my primary school friend from air port, and brought him around Sydney Eastern suburbs on Saturday and Sunday. I have not seen him since migrating to Australia back in 1990 — which makes that 18 years. Neither have we [...]

Python 2.6 Released

Python 2.6 final has just been released, and What’s New in Python 2.6 would be one recommended reading. Quite a few syntax sugar, although a lot of them are preparing for Python 3.0 (which would introduce quite a few incompatibility with Python 2.x). From the previous experience with upgrading from Python 2.4 to 2.5, I [...]