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I read in the news about the lawsuit of Creative suiting Apple over some user interface pattern related to iPod. In the article, it is interesting to learn back in 2001, before Apple release its first iPod, it wanted to license the hardware from… [...]
I attended a very rare event tonight. My friend is ordinated as a Catholic priest. A Catholic priest cannot get marry, so the importance of ordination is equivalent to his wedding. Actually it is even more important, become a priest also marks… [...]
Tonight I went out to have a drink with two old old friends. They are my primary schoolmates. One of them used to be my best buddy in primary school, although I havn’t keep in touch with him for a almost 5 years. He visited Vancouver for a few… [...]
I have wasted the whole afternoon watching clips on Youtube. I have been watching clips on this website for a few months, but never look at it seriously. The video clips I watched mostly are links posted to various forums. This website is popular… [...]
This is probably the best remix of the Bus Uncle movie, Karaoke MTV… [...]
My idea about combining Risk and Monopoly is getting some traction. During the lunch, my friends show great interest in this new game and we came up with many great ideas. This get me start to think about it seriously. In the afternoon, I did some… [...]
Finally, after procastinated for over 2 months, I had posted some of my unwanted toys on eBay last week. The auctions end today, half of the items are sold. The macross toys are very popular, I am able to make a small profit on all of them. Even the… [...]
Lately, a video clip taken by a cell phone is very popular in HK. The clip is knowned as the “Bus Uncle”. It is about a middle age man swearing and scolding a young guy who asked him to lower his voice on phone on a bus. I have watched the… [...]
Today the movie Da Vinci’s code has became one of the most talked topics at work. Apparently many people has already seen the movies over the opening weekend. It seems many of them shares the same disappointment as I do. Somehow the conversation… [...]
There are many types of friends, for some of them, you don’t even know you can actually call them friends, but they are not merely acquaintance. I have a friend havn’t keep in touch for a few years come to Vancouver for a bussiness… [...]
Bluefin Tuna is one of most expensive dish you can find in a Japanese resturant in Vancouver. Last friday, I have dinner with friends in a classy sushi place, a dish of bluefin tuna sashimi costs $180 there. What a ridicous pirce! The waiter even… [...]
Tonight I have played a modified version of monploy with my friends. In this game, we use two sets of monopoly and play by the house rule. The game play is similiar to monopoly, just we had doubled the boards. We have ten players and the game is very… [...]
I was watching Initial D stage 4 last night. I don’t expect I will find some inspiration about lesson of life in an anime. In racing, there is always an optimal lane in the racing course which gives the shortest distance between turns, hence… [...]
I have a friend who is extremely annoying. He can manage to get on your nerve on every single sentence he says. I am not the only one feel like this. His best friend from highschool, his ex-housemate, almost everyone around him feel the same. I was… [...]
Onenote is part of the Miscrsoft Office 2003 package. I havn’t use this software at all, since I don’t see any use of it. Finally, I have figure out what this program is intended for, surprisingly it’s quite good. In my philosophy… [...]
My linux server is reaching its end of life time. I have turned my trusty old P3-733 machine into my own web server. It was working fine for the past couple of years and I think it had reached its limit eventually. I was uploading the pictures from… [...]
Last weekend I went to the wedding my housemate when I was studying Waterloo. I cannot take vacations from work so I can only spend a weekend down there. I am glad to see many old friends and catch up with them. UA flights My flight down is not very… [...]
I have been trying to persuade my friends at work joining Toastmasters, so far the response is pretty negative. Other than a few co-ops and new grads in my team, I can’t convince a friend form the lunch group just to show up in the meeting… [...]
I have wanted a garment bag for travel for a long time. A garment bag is a special kind of luggage designed to carry a suit. Normal hand carry luggage is too small for a suit unless you don’t mind making it winkles. The full size luggage is overkill… [...]
Blogging has became a worldwide phenomena that many people think it will bring disruptive changes to the media industry. I adopt a more technical definition of blogging, which is nothing more than a (CMS) Content Management System regardless… [...]
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