Yet another Google product in beta – Personalise your Google home page, which let you includes items like your Gmail inbox, Slashdot articles, BBC news and weather reports. Still very US centric, and the Australian version kept on giving me re-direction error (thus beta I guess). Who says Google is not a portal?
Yahoo! has released “My Web” as Beta, which integrates a nice social bookmark interface. For more information see the feature list. Maybe it’ll replace my del.icio.us and BlogMarks account.
Google has just announced the AdSense for feeds, so all the webmasters can now make more money from advertising. Well, so I guess polluting your web browser is not good enough, they also want to taint your RSS reader.
Well. Another Star Wars related post. Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” with Star Wars characters. Very well done, especially when you compare with the original.
Grocery Store Wars – not long ago in a supermarket not so far away… Cucumber Skywalker, under the apprenticeship of Obi Wan Cannoli, must learn the way of Farm, fight the evil villian Lord Tader, and destroy the Death Watermelon. Very very funny.
Yeah. Which one? It is so hard to decide…
 Xbox 360 |
Or |
 Playstation 3 |
Both of them running cell processor that is in the same architecture as PowerPC G5. Oh so yummy. I just feel that I can put all those teraflops into good use.
But the likeliness of having any one of them sitting in my lounge room is… ZERO. Anyway.
How to report software issues to the vendor using screen capture built into Microsoft Windows:
Well, that was funny. And we had one user who did just that this morning. Good laugh for an otherwise busy morning.
Here is one disgusting picture:
Here is the press on how Sun and Microsoft has been working together over the last year. Both of them look very happy and were smiling towards each other. I must be very out-of-date with the industry, as I have thought they were bitter enemies. Things do change.
Can someone notify me next time when Bill Gates and Richard Stallman shake hands and smile together?
There has been quite a news lately on Australia universities and overseas students, mostly bringing out the dark side of this education business. This article on the Sydney Morning Heralds, “Big selling degrees prop up regional university“, looked at how the full fee paying students have transformed how the Central Queensland University is to be operated. It is funny that the biggest intake for CQU is now from their Sydney campus, which is 2,000km+ away from their Rockhampton main campus. 4,000+ overseas students, whom I presume were mainly coming from Asia, crammed into two of their buildings in Sydney CBD, trying to obtain the minimum requirement for fast tracking their PR visa – an Australian university degree. Study ain’t easy for them, and many of them struggle, quoted from this article:
At least half the overseas students studying at Central Queensland University’s Sydney campus were not up to undergraduate standard, a lecturer working there says.
從大富翁到大博客 – a monopoly game that uses blogging themes. Instead buying lands and properties, you buy popular websites, blogging tools, instant messengers and search engines. I would love to see one of those in K-Mart.
Native Jabber support for iChat on Mac OS X Tiger. Oh man. This rocks. You can connect directly to a Jabber server from iChat, and can search your buddy list from the Addressbook.
Thank you Peter! It is great to know that I will be $1,350 richer next year even without any pay rise.
Postgrey is a Postfix Greylisting Policy Server. It will drop the connection if the tuple of (client IP, sender, recipient) has never been listed, and hopefully the peer MTA will resend the mail required per RFC. Sounds like a wonderful idea to reduce spam/virii, but I wonder what the delay would be like.
2 security alerts concerning Mozilla Firefox, one can extract cross-site cookies and another one escalate to system priviledge via Mozilla’s extension architecture. As a browser reaches its critical mass, security holes and exploits will popup from no where like there is no tomorrow. That’s why I use telnet or netcat to browse the Internet these days.
I was just about to start preparing for the talk this Friday, something on the final coming of Jesus and the judgement over the living and dead. Then I remembered, “hey, didn’t we do eschatology in one of the Mid-Year Conference?” Yes indeed, the topic for MYC 2000 is “Anno Domini”, which is about the end of days. Great, and it would be good to dig up some useful material…
… not if I cannot find my past MYC booklets! Aargghh!! I still remembered that it was the one with a clock on the cover. Not only mine was missing, Vivian’s was no where to find as well. No, we don’t throw away our MYC booklets after the Friday night parties, and I still have my MYC 1995 “Tolerance” booklet in mint condition. Vivian remembered that we lent them out for John & Grace’s wedding preparation in 2002 so people can have song lyrics to practise singing – and we never got them back! Ouch that hurts. Don’t you hate it when people take what you treasure and never return them back to you? Our precious MYC booklets might be in some garbage dump somewhere. :(
