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Entries from November 2007

A vision of students today

November 22nd, 2007 · No Comments

I believe the world is changing, but had our education changed? And I really like that one — with all these changes, we still have so many people making less then 1 USD everyday, and the computer we are using cost more than many people’s annual income.

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Tags: randomthought · video · web2.0

New MacBook Pro

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve order a new MacBook Pro few weeks ago, have been using it for a while and finally got some time to blog about the exciting experience. I’m a new Mac OSX users (about 1 year), before that I’ve been using Linux for 7 years….  Anyway, Mac OSX is irresistible  for me not only because the “design” […]

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Tags: osx

links for 2007-11-21

November 21st, 2007 · No Comments

CakePhp Coding Standards « Cake en Soda
The coding style standards of Cakephp
(tags: cakephp standards)

Google Grants
(tags: advertising google nonprofit)

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links for 2007-11-20

November 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Online Whiteboard: Imagination Cubed
A nice online whiteboard in flash.
(tags: collaboration whiteboard drawing web2.0 webservices)

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links for 2007-11-19

November 19th, 2007 · No Comments

The 7 CSS Hacks that we should use
(tags: css hacks programming tips webdesign OURTSHIRT)

Who is Blogging and Why? Is the Blogosphere in a Digestion Phase?
(tags: blogs media business)

區議會選舉的瞻前顧後之(三)民主派最黑暗的一天 « 都是那些日子
(tags: districtcouncil politics democracy)

From Where I Sit: How Not to Use PowerPoint
(tags: presentation tips slideshow)

springnote
(tags: collaboration wiki web2.0 opensource)

Business chat, file sharing, group decision making: Campfire
(tags: […]

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Mac OSX 10.5.1 was released

November 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Just updated! Hopefully most problem I got will be corrected in this release. 

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Tags: osx

MySQL-python fix at OSX 10.5

November 15th, 2007 · No Comments

While I’m installing software back to my new leopord, I run into a problem on MySQL-python, and I found this excellent and easy fix from the Internet.

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Tags: hacking · osx

My Experience with Mac OSX 10.5 Leopord

November 15th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve just got my new MacBook Pro with the Mac OSX 10.5 Leopord. After using it for several hours, my experience can be said only satisfactory. The overall user experience is more or less same as OSX 10.4. The most notable (and favourable) change for me, suprisingly, is the “Downloads” folder, which automatically collect everything […]

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Tags: osx

WYSIWYG Wiki , any recommendation?

November 9th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Wiki is a platform allows users to collaborate on text. I’m using a lot of Wiki personally, either for personal organization / notes keeping, or for collaborate with others.
Recently I’ve come across a problem — what happen when others on your team are not so capable in IT and can’t even learn those Wiki markup? […]

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Tags: randomthought · software · wiki

Yahoo HK as a sponser of Barcamp2007

November 9th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I’m planning to join BarCamp 2007 Hong kong, while it is good to hear that Yahoo Hong Kong supporting a community event, the first thing come to my mind is: Will anyone talk about Yahoo HK helping mainland China Government to prove the identity of Shi Tao, who is now serving 10 years prison because […]

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Tags: censorship · community · randomthought · yahoo