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Released early this morning (AEST time) — Google Nexus S, made by Samsung. Official page here. A few highlights: 1GHz Cortex A8 (Hummingbird) processor 512MB RAM and 16GB internal storage 4 inch WVGA contour display (yes it’s not flat) Android 2.3 “Gingerbread” Android 2.3 platform was also announced, with SIP stack, Near Field Communications, more [...]

Just received an email about an upcoming meeting. Then I noticed that date of the meeting is… Monday 22nd of November, which was yesterday. So I thought it must have been a typo. It should have been 29th, which is next Monday! Then I looked at the email more carefully, and noted that it was [...]

Via Hacker News, Chad Austin: 10 Pitfalls of Dirty Code. Dirty code does not scale to larger teams. Dirty code reduces team morale. Dirty code makes programmers slower. Dirty code inhibits the formation of an ownership culture. If product concepts are not reflected in the code, programmers might implement features in ways that don’t make [...]

2 days after the election and we still cannot sure who will be Australia’s next Prime Minister. Most exciting election in Australia over the last 50 years? More like most disastrous to me. Although I did vote for that Mid-Night Oil guy (who else is worthy in Kingsford-Smith?) I gotta say that I am really [...]

From Leo Laport: Buzz Kill. It makes me feel like everything I’ve posted over the past four years on Twitter, Jaiku, Friendfeed, Plurk, Pownce, and, yes, Google Buzz, has been an immense waste of time. I was shouting into a vast echo chamber where no one could hear me because they were too busy shouting [...]

We have recently got a new car and are trying to offload my other cars — the white Pulsar is too small now for the family of 4, and Voyoge is too big to drive around the town. I have just put our 11 year old Nissan Pulsar N15 hatchback on Drive.com.au 2 nights ago… [...]

Google’s probably the last update on Google Wave. It’s a bit sad, because Wave is primary a Sydney product, sad I have spent the last Google partners day looking at it. We even used it for one of the collaboration at work. I guess a technically superior product might still not be popular, if no [...]

Took an 2.5 hours trip on CityCat on Brisbane River yesterday. So many bridges…

Hacker News Poll — what is your religion? I actually found the religion-related threads on HN usually quite good comparing to sites like Whirlpool, where people would ridicule first before any discussion. Still, atheism/agnosticism are still the majority in the tech world/startup scene.

Python 2.7 has just been released, on Anna’s birthday :) it’s going to be the last 2.x release. Time to start picking on 3.x?

This blog is brought to you by WordPress App running on my Nexus one just updated to Android 2.2 “FroYo” FRF91. Everything runs great so far, except Swype needs to be reinstalled.

Last night Vivian and I managed to dine at Cha Cha Japanese Restaurant near Oasis on the Gold Coast high way. Food: Teppanyaki chicken + rice ($12.80), Tempura udon ($11.80), fried tofu ($6.80), Japanese green tea ($2.70). We actually meant to go to Cha Cha last time when we were on the Gold Coast (late [...]

Over the last week I have moved FOCUSER.net (yes the good ol site that does not seem to be used by anyone any more) and all my personal sites from VPSLink to Jumba‘s Virtuozzo VPS. Because It is Australian (servers in Sydney in my case), whereas VPSLink is in US Believe it or not, Jumba [...]

Android Australia: Vodafone announces Google Nexus One. It is finally officially coming to Australia via Vodafone and its UK arm. Yes, a few days after I bought mine. Such an awesome phone ONLY IF Froyo is releasing tonight :)

Via Hacker News. Fred Wilson talked about Being Present, because “you have about ten to twelve years to connect with your kids and then they turn into teenagers…” That’s a message to the hard working entrepreneur-parents out there. In fact working 9-5 can feel missing out, let along getting back home at almost 8pm each [...]