Dolphin coming to town (Bandar Sunway), we all got a little excited this morning while seeing this at the road side.
We grabbed the URL and hit with the browser, and got this:
It is funny that people spent thousands on making a signboard, but couldn’t get their URL right.
How much for a friendster.com link anyway?
I have not eaten this dish before, and I have promised myself not to eat it by all means.
Go ahead, click this if you want to know why.
Don’t click if you still prefer to enjoy this dish – you’ve warned.
Learn about it at http://www.nofoiegras.org/
癌症是病？什么是病症？什么是病？
癌症是人的忠臣，不可以拖出去就斩。
治疗癌症，不如用简单的方法预防。
我们生活在一个资讯被扭曲的时代。
每天死于心脏病的人，比 911 死难者多，却没有媒体报告。
我们花大量金钱和资源，去研究如何治疗，却不理会如何防卫疾病。
喝牛奶最多的国家，骨质酥松症反而最多，为何？
医院越开越多，越盖越大，为什么排队挂号的人反而越来越多？
人的寿命加长了？统计学出了问题罢了。
十四岁孩童死于直肠癌，为什么？
花开得早，就谢得早：早熟的孩子好吗？
鱼肉比其他肉类更糟糕？
周泳杉给你答案。
如果你没有时间听四个小时的讲座，这里剪了十分钟出来，看了才决定要不要把其他的看完。
如果财富很重要，那就要确保你有命去享用。只是十分钟的投资，很值得啦。
The iPhone is an interesting device. I have been using it as my primary phone for over a few months, and decided to switch back to a broken Nokia N80 instead.
What went wrong?
I think it could be just me. iPhone 3G is particularly slow in everything. I have just over 300 records in the phone book, and realized that it wasn’t easy for me to search for a particular record to make call, if I have the patient to wait 5 seconds just for the address book to load, another 5 seconds for the keyboard to show.
I am getting about 50 SMS a day, and if I don’t clear them off fast enough, I’ll be spending more seconds just to open the SMS app to get the list scrolling.
Texting in this fellow wasn’t easy. Although it is much easier then doing it on my N80, but I sent most of SMS by writing it on MacBook (full keyboard), bluetooth over to the phone to get it out (BluePhoneElite).
I’ve been very reluctant to send SMS recently due to the fact that I am using the iPhone, as I can only text it with the minuscule “virtual” keyboard on it. Certainly a waste of time and I started to call more instead of texting.
For this my friend, I am giving it up. At least on the SMS.
The speaker is just too soft for hand free. I have never managed to get a comfortable conversation with the speaker on. The N80 on the other hand, is too good at this, even over some noisy engines at the middle of the street.
I have good hearing, and I usually set the volume on the N80 to slightly over the middle when I answer phone calls (not at hand free mode). I have to push the iPhone volume all the way to the max, and barely listen to what the fellow say on the other end – and very often, people found my voice too soft for them.
For this, I would have to let it go too. As a phone, I would say iPhone score 5/10 as phone functionalities, and 3/10 on SMS.
iPhone OS 3.0 and iPhone 3GS might improved a little, but I doubt: look at the feature Apple has highlighted – compass and video cam.
The iPhone has one thing good: I can ssh into my server to perform some quick fixes. But it really not a big deal. My N80 does that too, couple with bluetooth portable keyboard, ssh on N80 is still more comfortable.
It has GPS, cool, but when I need direction while driving, the Garmin GPS is a device that I trust more.
iPhone is still very handy all rounded. I feel easier if I just bring the iPhone out, leaving all my gadgets and MacBook behind. But when I work on my MacBook, iPhone become irrelevant.
At around 3:38 PM today (6 July 2009), there were some code injection in pages that www.sinchew-i.com served.
It is now fixed 
Here is the page, the source code.
如果你读 MBA, 胡小林那一套大概要叫你吐血。
这套录影，讲的是中华传统，却又是那么的颠覆。
虽然里头有很浓的佛家和儒家色彩，对非佛教徒来说，可能会很抗拒，但只要你不先入为主，各取所需，肯定能在里头找到解决难题的方案。
主管级人马，尤其要看。先下载 Disk 1: Part 1，喜欢的话才来全套。
胡小林先生主讲
二千零八年九月三日
讲于香港理工大学
Disk 1: Part 1 (235 Mb), Part 2 (258 Mb), Part 3 (270 Mb), Part 4 (282 Mb)
Disk 2: Part 1 (260 Mb), Part 2 (258 Mb), Part 3 (257 Mb)
I’ve just developed a small classified ads engine, and show it off at hot.my
It is still at beta stage, meaning may not work as expected. It should be tagged as alpha version – but I doubt many will know what alpha really means.
What I intended to do with this? Just another classified ads? Yes
Just another one, so you can probably ignore it.
However, if you are interested in the technology behind, wish to adopt it and put a marketing force behind (with your own domain of course), let’s talk.
What is the strength of this engine?
- very small, very clean interface footprint (bandwidth friendly)
- dynamically load sub pages thru AJAX instead of reload the page all the time.
- using email as the “hook” – no registration require before a guest may post content.
- very simple “image gallery”, no Flash required.
In the road map:
- user login dashboard, allow user to manage their post, and more.
- user ranking on item posted – similar to digg or reddit.
- user remark/discuss on item posted.
- more dynamic portal, to show latest post, hot items etc.
- more types, less classified ads approach.
- expand more on properties and automobile.
- migrate to jquery AJAX framework.
My Adium universal IM client stuck at “unable to retrieve msn address book” error today.
A little search turn out that “Microsoft’s servers have stopped accepting logins from clients that use version 15 of the protocol [ link ]“, which is newer version of their IM protocol.
Strange right?
Why they suddenly downgraded their protocol? Also, it seem their original MSN client wasn’t effected – so they either has already planned for the downgrade long ago, or they have fail-over protocol ready in their own client.
Weird.
I am switching back to Adium 1.3.2 now.
