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Well. Not really mine, but rather a loan phone from Optus and Bang PR, and I still need to return the phone back to them on Friday. The HTC Dream came to the office this morning with a strange packaging. It came with only 15% of juice in the battery so the 1st thing is [...]

Just to preempt you that in case you have not seen me on MSN/Live Messenger for a while — I am still alive. Just that I decided that I would not use MSN Messenger any more. No. I’ve got lots of friends there — some I know in real life, and some are just acquaintance [...]

Luke 13:1-5 from English Standard Bible: 1 There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? 3 [...]

Here’s a picture of my Dell Latitude D630 when it boots up. The random freeze started around 2 days ago. Out of sudden the laptop will freeze, and left the screen with a blue’ish tint. A power cycle is required to get the computer back to work, and it happened a couple of times a [...]

Have to blog about dalziel’s Twitter status here: Go to WhitePages. Search for “magic shop” (without the quotes) under Queensland. And you get this: Not sure whether it’s deliberated at WhitePages/Sensis, but surely it’s funny.

Saw Rob Bryanton’s Imagining the 10th Dimension on YouTube tonight, and the 10th dimension has been described as infinite possible beginning plus infinite possible ending of universe + time as a single point. That reminded me of someone, who is omnipotent in all these…

Problem I have recently bought a Nokia S60 smart phone, and have migrated my email to Google Apps. I am now using the Gmail interface to access my emails when I am on my desktop, but I am wondering how I can send/receive emails on my mobile phone. Solution(s) Well. It is complicated and so [...]

Took this phone the other day. Nokia 6150 Nokia E71 Released in 1998 Dual band GSM Infra-red port 84 x 48 monochrome display Released in 2008 Quad band GSM + dual band HSPA Wi-Fi + Bluetooth + Infrared + GPS/AGPS 320×240 QVGA colour display That Nokia 6150 wasn’t my first Nokia — I had a [...]

As previously reported, I have moved my main email from my own mail server to Gmail hosted on Google Apps. Signing up was easy. Moving DNS records was pretty straight-forward (a few clicks if your domain is with DreamHost). Getting IMAP up and running requires one simple setting inside Gmail, plus reconfiguring your MUA (Thunderbird, [...]

Fortunately I did not wait for Kogan’s Agora but got a Nokia E71 instead. APC Mag: Second Google Android phone — Kogan Agora — “Delayed Indefinitely”, due to some technical short-sightness in Agora’s design, i.e. its QVGA screen, which might not be compatible with future Android applications. That leaves HTC/T Mobile’s G1 as the only [...]

Nokia to add LGPL Open Source licensing option for the Qt UI and application framework. One of the best cross-platform GUI toolkit, if not the best, has just got more free. We have been doing wxWidgets only because it’s more flexible licensing, although personally I much Qt. Now I am just waiting for an updated [...]

Meet my new email client. Yes, it’s Google Mail. Or to be more specific, Gmail part of Google Apps, and it is now hosting my (and Vivian’s) emails on this domain (yang.id.au).

Took two deliveries at work today for my belated Christmas pressies (that I actually have to pay for myself). First one — all the way from the United Kingdom: It’s Real World Haskell by Bryan O’Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen. It was released in November 2008 by O’Reilly, which you can actually read the [...]