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Install software

30th Apr 2006 24 2 Daily Scribble

I have been spending my week nights and weekend setting up the software in my laptop. I havn’t update my software in my PC for quite a while and many are a version or two behind. It is very convinient that you can get almost all useful software… [...]

哲學功課: On Fatalism

30th Apr 2006 63 0 哲道閒人

In this essay I will discuss the conflict between God’s foreknowledge and our freedom. I will first examine the problem of fatalism proposed by Richard Taylor. Then I will reproduce the resolution proposed by St. Augustine and William Rowe.… [...]

哲學功課: Problems of McTaggart and the unreality of time

30th Apr 2006 147 0 哲道閒人

In this essay I will criticize the unreality of time proposed by McTaggart. First I will outline the arguments on the unreality of time by McTaggart. Then I will reject his premises and deductions one by one to show McTaggart has failed to conclude… [...]

Vietnam crossover Japan

28th Apr 2006 50 1 Daily Scribble

We tried and failed to have lunch at Estea again this afternoon. Although the bubble tea place has big signs at the front saying it is open for business during lunch hour, it was closed. In order to avoid moving our cars, we head to a sushi place in… [...]

Birthday Party

27th Apr 2006 18 0 Daily Scribble

Tonight I went to a very special birthday party, it is the birthday of the Fr. Pierre of St. Mary. He is turning 60 this year, and he has been a priest for 25 years. The party starts with the usual Thursday party meeting and Eucharist adoration. It… [...]

Race track

26th Apr 2006 19 1 Daily Scribble

The other two Bit-Char G I ordered from Hobby Link Japan finally arrived. The race track in Steven’s cubicle is offically opened to bussiness. The range of the remote control is very limited, so I have to close off the far end section of… [...]

Laptop

25th Apr 2006 20 0 Product Reviews
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My laptop (Inspiron 6400) ordered from Dell has arrived today. It is the first laptop I ever own, excluding the piece of junk PMC gave me when I started working. I am quite happy with the laptop, except it doesn’t have enough memory. I know… [...]

24″ widescreen LCD again

24th Apr 2006 38 1 Daily Scribble

Today the fleet of 24″ widescreen LCD finally arrived. Almost everyone in the project get a new monitor, the rest of the team will have it in the next shipment. After I had made my suggestion about bigger display has a positive impact productivity… [...]

Investment

23rd Apr 2006 71 2 Daily Scribble

This weekend I finally have the time to organize my investments. I havn’t keep an eye on it for a few months and I didn’t even keep a good track of record of my profits and losses. I spent a whole afternoon entering all my transaction… [...]

Farewell lunch

21st Apr 2006 27 0 Daily Scribble

We have another farewell lunch today. The boss has joked it has become a monthly feature and he even nominate the lesser boss for next month’s farewell lunch. Sometimes I really doubt what is the point behind farewell lunch. In the lunch… [...]

Glance of love

20th Apr 2006 19 0 Daily Scribble

Today at lunch, I heard a rumour from the usual source of all information. The rumour is about a secret admirer to another girl. According to the rumour, there is guy thinks that the girl likes him, because he found she glanced at him many times.… [...]

N64

19th Apr 2006 30 3 Daily Scribble

Recently, Pat digged out her Super NES console and try to finish the Mario Land game pending over 10 years. This get me into conversation about emulator of console on the computer. I tried hard to explain what is an emulator to Pat, but it seems… [...]

Exam

18th Apr 2006 13 0 Daily Scribble

I have my first and last exam of this term today. It is the final exam for my philosophy course. I didn’t spend much time studying it. Just start late in afternoon yesterday and finish before midnight. In the final we have to study 7 philosophers.… [...]

Wiki

17th Apr 2006 62 0 Daily Scribble

I have just installed Mediawiki to my webserver. Mediawiki is the wiki program behind the wikipedia. I would like to give it a try and use wiki to create a library section in my website. I found blog and forum are not very suitable for static pages… [...]

Fire alarm

16th Apr 2006 12 0 Daily Scribble

This is the first time I have fire alarm since I had moved into my new place. I was waken up by the alarm suddenly while I was sleeping. It took me a while to realize what’s going on, and get changed quickly, grab the keys and start going down… [...]

Black run

15th Apr 2006 15 0 Daily Scribble

Today I went to Whislter first time since I have became an instructor. We have a solid day of all black runs. I found that black runs is not as hard as I thought before, although it still quite tried coming down on a black run. The snow is really good… [...]

Station of the cross

14th Apr 2006 115 0 Daily Scribble

Today is the first day of the Easter long weekend. According to the Christian tradition, Jesus suppose to be crucified on the cross today, died and took a break for three days before resuming his duty as the Messiah. As a good Catholic, I go to the… [...]

Afghan cuisine

13th Apr 2006 15 2 Daily Scribble

Tonight I have a small advantage to try Afghan cuisine. The resturant is next to Rasputin on Broadway and Cambine. I have passed by this resturant many times and wonder what’s inside. Looking into the door, it looks pretty normal, just… [...]

Canucks Out

12th Apr 2006 14 0 Daily Scribble

I went to Canucks game tonight. I am very disappointed that they lose this important game to Sharks. Canucks probably cannot get into the Stanley Cup play off this year. In the first period, we were leading 2-0, I thought it would be easy game to… [...]

Lowest price guarantee

11th Apr 2006 30 1 Daily Scribble

I love the lowest price guarantee at Future Shop. I bought a Linksys router last week at $70 after rebate. This week, the same router goes on sale in Bestbuy for $60 after rebate. It is a $10 difference, so I took my receipt and the Bestbuy advertisement… [...]

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