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SMH: Clerical error exposes Google as anonymous eBay critic. Worse, it has not only revealed that it is Google who hides behind the mask criticising eBay’s latest policy on payment methods, meta data in the PDF file has also revealed that some Google employees used Microsoft Word to construct the document!! Well. Google, listen — [...]

I wrote about how Commonwealth Games affected daylight saving in Australian states, and its implications to software developers. It seems that the easiest way is not to patch it, but announce that daylight saving will end early on your site instead, and state that the issue will be automatically fixed in one week. I wish [...]

Updated 2 May 2005: It is SOLD, for a mere $130 Australian dollar. Not as much as I like, but well, everyone finds a bargain on eBays… It is probably going to be my very last entry on Psion. Not that I have written much in the past. As of Psion, nothing has really happened [...]

For the last 2-3 days, I have sold 3 items and bought one from eBay Australia, and I think I might have started enjoying the process. You can always find bargains on it, and most importantly you can buy pre-loved second hand items in good working condition at a fraction of the original price. It [...]

Virgin Mary, ET – and now someone is selling her father’s ghost on eBay to drive her child’s fear away, reported by Religion News Blog. I for one would not be very please if Anna is trying to put my “ghost” on eBay after I pass away.

Well, it has been sitting in the garage for the last 4 months, and I finally decided to sell my beloved, hmmm, “motherboard”. It is an Abit BP6, the board that rocked the world, which once provided cheap entrance to SMP by exploiting the multi-processor capability of the Mendocino-cored Intel Celeron. Brought it in mid-’99, [...]

A blogsite listing items on sale at eBay and other Internet auction places that are so odd which leave you wondering, “who would buy that?” Well, someone did buy that Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich. But I guess a better question is, who in their sanity would actually sell these?

10 year old bitten grilled cheese sandwich with “Virgin Mary”‘s face on it is now auctioned at eBay, starting bid at USD$3000. Current bid is now already at USD$18,500. Seller also claimed that it has special blessing that enables him/her to win $70,000 at local casinos. And you thought sight of Mary at Coogee Beach [...]

Compare to my previous boring auction experience in real estate, bidding on eBay has been much more dynamic. I have had my eBay account for more than 4 years, but just then was my very first experience in bidding for an item. The item we want to buy is a second hand Safe n Sound [...]

A few people have landed on this blogsite asking for Gmail invites, thanks to Google’s efficiency indexing frequently updated blog sites. Well, actually no thanks. I don’t have any Gmail invites to give away. In fact I am also waiting for a generous soul to give me a lift to test drive Google’s “revolutionary” email [...]