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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 [...]

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.

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 :)

Just ran this on my various blogs: $ svn switch http://core.svn.wordpress.org/tags/3.0 And navigate to the Admin pages of the blog. Done — WordPress upgraded to the latest and the greatest within seconds. Would be faster if something like git is used instead of subversion (which I found slower and slower than git or hg), but [...]

It arrived today and I’ve switched. From my Nokia E71 of 18 months to this. 1GHz Snapdragon processor. WSVGA AMOLED display. 512MB memory + 4GB SD card. Android 2.1. First impression from Anna when I went home. “Wow iPhone!” (arrghhh!) So far so good. Installed a few apps to get the VoIP working. I do [...]

Just tweet about my recent bad experience with VPSLink’s migration from Seattle to Boston (which this blog is hosted on), and noticed that Twitter is not displaying my number of tweets correctly. Saying 828 there but I know very well that there are 3,200+ tweets there, as I ran a scheduled script that backs up [...]

For the past 12 months OzBargain has been running on a single Linode 720 at Linode, in their Fremont data centre. I thought it was pretty good for a Drupal website getting 5 million page views per month, especially renting that VPS is pretty much free to me :) Due to surge in traffic as [...]