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I saw this in a forum, and it validates what I suspected all along, that the 2 movies are too similar.* Both films involve human oppression and persecution of an alien race.* Both films involve heavy metaphors that can be easily applied to the persecution and inhuman treatment of the Native Americans.* Both involve the relocation of an alien civilization against their will.* Both films are told

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I conceived this crazy scenario suddenly. Tell me what would you do?*********************It is the year 2020.In the month of March, 111 alien spaceships suddenly hover above all the major cities on Earth. The alien's leader suddenly sent a message to everyone. This is how the message goes."Hello Earthlings, we mean no harm. We are here to meet and welcome you as part of our family. Thousands of

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"What would you call a conversation where both persons were not judging or weighing the words of the other?" Zen Master Dae Gok asked.Silence."Ask me the question." he instructed."What would you call a conversation where both persons were not judging or weighing the words of the other?""Friendship." Dae Gok answered.

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Recently, in large French city, a poster featuring a young, thin and tan woman appeared in the window of a gym. It said:THIS SUMMER DO YOU WANT TO BE A MERMAID OR A WHALE?A middle aged woman, whose physical characteristics did not match those of the woman on the poster, responded publicly to the question posed by the gym.To Whom It May Concern:Whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins,

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Posted this down to remind myself what to do in the future if I encounter this scenario again.If you encounter into a situation where you decided to encrypt your Linux partition using LUKS, remember that activating it will not remove those old data that has not been overwritten over.Thus, if you want to remove all these unallocated data or scrub any free space to remove any unwanted information,

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It is the month of August, on the shores of the Black Sea. It is raining, and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 Euro note on the reception counter, and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.The hotel proprietor takes the 100

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[Update: I noticed that my blog entry has appeared in many of the search results when people are looking for addon help. If you have any questions regarding addon please feel free to ask in the comment box below. I will try my very best to help you.]Some of you may ask me, what is so good about Firefox 3.5? I told everybody: The power of Firefox lies in a good selection of addons to enhance your

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We can all play a part by doing the following, which these are just some of my random thoughts:Use what is necessary enough for your own needsReuse and recycle where possibleReuse the same wine glass if you drink more than 1 bottle of wineEat less meat, eat more vegetables and fruitsIf you need to eat meat, eat meat reared from sustainable farming (that means no foie gras, or shark's fin)Take

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I noticed that some Pidgin installation may not support Unicode support properly. This is because the "pango.aliases" file may not embed the correct font information for you to read the fonts.To enable unicode support, open and edit the file "pango.aliases" (most likely at "GTK\etc\pango") and put in the following format, with the example below:sans = "arial,{unicode font name 1},{unicode font

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One evening many moons ago, an old Cherokee man told his grandson about an ancient battle that lives inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity

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Introducing, my pet alpaca named after me!!! :)Also, "Alpacappella" has a new friend, Lamb Stella (just barely 2 weeks old) and its mother ewe! :)Ain't they just adorable?Thanks to my friend Devon who is taking care of the animals at the Wainui Farm Retreat. Stay at their farm if you are ever in Auckland, New Zealand! :)

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What a joke. Microsoft's Bing is powered by Linux? And there they complaining that Linux is unproven technology? :PWarning: Hostname www.bing.com resolves to 2 IPs. Using 124.155.222.67.Interesting ports on 124.155.222.67:PORT STATE SERVICE25/tcp filtered smtp80/tcp open http111/tcp filtered rpcbind443/tcp open httpsWarning: OSScan results may be unreliable because we could not find at least 1

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They always say: To copy your stuff is the best compliment that you have done your stuff very well.I wonder if Bing is trying to tell Google that.To understand why, take a look at this screenshot comparison.Next, under the preferences, look at the screenshot comparison.See the similarities???So, is this just unintended emulation, adoption of best breed or just blatant plagiarism? I cannot decide

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This was adopted from Presentation Zen, and I totally concur and believe the TED Commandments will make presentations better. :)On a side note:Go give a good presentation! :)

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Fix apt-get upgrade error by doing this:gpg –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv CB2F6C86F77B1CA9gpg –export –armor CB2F6C86F77B1CA9 | apt-key add -Fix missing control center and kcommander by doing this:apt-get --reinstall install kcontrol-kde3Install kmix to get volume control:apt-get install kmixShould get latest version of Firefox 3.0.10 and others:apt-get update; apt-get upgradeInstall nmap

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It has been a long time since I added new stuff on this blog. I finally decided to change the old blogger template to the new template that support Layers and Gadgets. Spent about 5 hours just to migrate the old template to the new template ensuring that the colour scheme and layout remain similar.Now with the new update, hopefully I feel more motivated to write some stuff (more substantial than

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Engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives and sales people. This theorem can now be supported by a mathematical equation based on the following two postulates:As every engineer knows: Power = Work / TimeThen, Since:Knowledge = Power and Time = Money, it follows that Knowledge = Work / Money.Solving for Money, we get: Money = Work / Knowledge.Thus, as Knowledge

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This was taken from somewhere. Credits due to whoever wrote it. Please enjoy.***************One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches!The driver of the other car whipped his head

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I am compiling a list of online colour wheels for my own reference.Colours on the WebKulerColour WheelEasyRGB

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This is probably the best saying of the year:"People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the NewYear, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the NewYear and Christmas."

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I received this from an email through a friend, and I thought this information is pretty useful in the event you need to use it.QUOTEMy nurse friend sent this and encouraged me to post it and spread the word. I agree.If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks. Seriously..Please read:STROKE IDENTIFICATIONDuring a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she

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Might as well sing this song at times like this to keep you smiling. :)Recession BellsYou'd better watch out,You'd better not cry.You'd better keep cash,I'm telling you why:Recession is coming to town.It's hitting you once,It's hitting you twiceIt doesn't care if you've been careful and wise,Recession is coming to town.It's worthless if you've got shares,It's worthless if you've got bonds.It's

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So just to record in my blog, that 35 years later, I am going to upgrade to Life Version 2.0 with an entirely new, exciting life. :)Wish me luck, give me support, and most importantly, wish me fun all the way! :)

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Something I learnt today from a page off the calendar, which will set the pace of my life for the next few years ...营销贵有心意，敢于标新立异，推出与众不同的经营方式，才能[创]市场，而不要效仿别人[跟]市场，占领先机，取得成功。

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Once upon a time, in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them. The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the

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I have decided to adopt a micro-blogging approach, considering the fact that I am never a story teller but more of a sharer.As such, I have decided to move to micro-blogging via the following sites:Micro-blogsBrightkiteFacebookFriendfeedIdenti.caJaikuKoornkKwippyMashablePlurkRejawShout'EmStreetMavenTumblrTwitterUtterliVoxYouAreOthersDeliciousDiigoLast.FM

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Canon IXUS camera is rather powerful, but it can be made even more powerful with CHDK through their mod firmware. I love the extra features, especially the part of faster shutter speed. It support a whole range of Canon POS cameras, so don't ditch your old camera for a new model just yet.

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50 useful tips ... since this week is celebrating Earth Day.

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Ever thought of what is the diet of a typical family around the world? Hungry Planet has compiled a list of families living in different countries, with photos of what they eat in a week and how much it cost as shown here. Oh, remember to click for Part 2 on the Update link.What caught my attention is the photos of what they ate in a week, and the total number of people in the family. Thus, a

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Here and here!

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"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simplycannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracywill continue to exist up until the time that voters discover thatthey can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidateswho promise the most benefits from the public treasury,with the result that every democracy

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Should one day I should switch to a 100% total open source platform, I should pay a visit to this site to know what are the good alternative replacement for some of the commercial software that I used.

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After coming back from New Zealand, I start to like this new kids show called Shaun the Sheep. From the maker of Wallace and Gromit, this TV program is actually a spin-off from the Wallace and Gromit Movie movie which you can read about the history here.The interesting thing about this TV program is that there are no talking conversation, just bah, rarf, grunt, oink conversations, but trust me,

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A little ingenious humourous cartoon ... :)

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Oh no, another exciting, Tower-defence like time-wasting game but in a more RPG format. Known as Protector, more levels than the original Tower game, but it gets quite difficult as the level goes higher.

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Woah, hundred ways of using Google Map. The most useful one will be getting around via Tube in London, online planning way much better than where I stay.

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1. Ensure that at startup, the following command is executed:setserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x220 irq 4 autoconfig ;or;Add the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local# Map stylus to a serial portsetserial /dev/ttyS0 port 0x0200 irq 5 autoconfig2. Modify the file at /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the following:Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "stylus" Option "Device" "/dev/

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For record purpose, I have drove about 3700 km in 20 days using about 290 litres of petrol.Will never forget the drive up to Larnach Castle,pass-by at Crown Range and drive to Nugget Point.

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Just came back from New Zealand, and I was in Auckland while New Zealand had their state funeral for Sir Edmund Hillary.I was touched that so many New Zealanders and Nepalese adored him, and realised from so many stories and testimonies that he was a down-to-earth man.But what I respect him the most was this saying he quoted:"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."A simple saying, but

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How to give yourself a very realistic dream? The instructions are here.

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Ever dread going overseas and worrying about crumpling your clothes. Fear no more, follow the instructions here for a crump-free (well, almost) clothes set.

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Google Mail, otherwise known as GMail, is something everyone should have by now. You know of someone who doesn't have an account? Pass it on!

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As stated in the first paragraph:True happiness cannot be bought. It is something we have to cultivate ourselves. There is a Chinese saying that "if you want three hours of ecstasy, try gambling. For three weeks of rapture, go travelling. For three months of bliss, get married. Build a new house and you will enjoy three years of heaven. But if you want true and lasting happiness, grow and live

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Makes you really compute what is the time now.

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Possibly one of the weirdest book in history. So weird, you have to see for yourself here.Oh, it is available for purchase at USD $550. :P

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Wow, someone actually came up with a technique to generate a d12 calendar. Available in multi-languages. :)

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I AM76%OPTIMUS PRIMETake the Transformers Quiz

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Well, in this site, it seems *EVERY* number is indeed special. :)

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Hmm, it has been a long time I have penned an entry. This entry was written because of a sudden realisation of life again.Dropped by Borders to kill some time today ... picked up a book. Just randomly flipped to a chapter with a section titled "Lack of Time", and it referred to the story of Momo written by Michael Ende. This story is so thought-provoking, and I realised for all the things that we

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This is probably one of the simplest, easiest and most fun game I have encountered so far. Just draw some lines, make sure the ball touch the red square. Sounds easy? See how far you can go.

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Persistent EffortOne must earn their salary via legitimate means without harming anyone.ProtectionOne must learn how to keep their money safely away from those who will abuse your hard-earned savings.Good FriendshipOne must mix with the right people to enhance your social life in aspect of wisdom and right lifestyle.Balanced LifeOne must ensure that work, for all it's worth, is just a meanm, not

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I like the advice dishes out in this site. The key gist is: Do what you like, not what you are asked to do. :P

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First, go to this site to see a silhouette of a woman spinning.Depending on how it started to you, the woman may be seen spinning clockwise or anti-clockwise. The trick here, is to tell your brain the woman CAN be spinning both ways.And when you see it, it kinds of freak you out what is real. :P

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Heh, I appreciate the 37th point in this site, and oh yes, I will definitely do it.

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Tower Defense, from what I know, is a game concept adopted from Warcraft. It really is a strategic game where one has to think what are the best weapon resources to deploy to defeat what seems to be a never-ending hordes of armies.1. Flash Element TD is the first Tower Defense game that I played. I have finally completed it after learning some tips from the veteran players.2. I heard that the

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There is a list of useful tools here in this site for system administration purpose. What I like in particular is that the tools are recommended by system administrators, and these tools are really the top notch in the SA world. Good for people who like to know what others are using to manage their network.

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This is an interesting site ... and it also kind of validates that I am able to read a person's intention quite well. My results are as below. :)

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This is possibly one of the toughest quiz in the world. So tough, all your answers depend on one another.

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Here, you nove your mouse up and down to zoom in/out and you see that it never stop. You have to see to understand.

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Some of these movies in this site really brings back memories, which I actually hoarded and collected some of them. It has been 30 years since the first Star Wars movie was released, I feel so old now. :)

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No no ... I am not meaning getting married, but really tying useful knots. I was never a scout, so I don't get to learn such stuff. This page shows the 10 most useful knots used commonly in camps. Maybe I should learn one or two of this knot.

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"I am in love" means "I want me to be happy"; "I love" means "I want to make you happy."***Golden Rule: Never let Passion override Compassion

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I had this new mobile phone since 1 April till now. Has not blogged about it because I wanted to be very sure about what I can do with it. After playing with it for a month, I can safely say that this phone is something that I will use for a LONG time to come. Why so? These are the reasons and how I used the phone to its maximum effectiveness:1. PDA function. It has sort of by default replaced my

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Today I bought a new IONA purple clay slow cooker, and a Zojirushi rice cooker for small families to replace a 1.8l rice cooker that I had for 3 years.Even changed my hair-dryer to a new one that can spew out negative ions to straighten hair. Amazing technology.Thanks to my old ricer cooker and slow cooker. It has certainly served their function well. Shall always remember them.

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Today is the first debut of Spiderman 3. It is to me, a very good movie based on a comic. Truly with the human touch.Some unforgettable sayings:1. "Revenge is like a poison, it will slowly take over you."2. "I forgive you." to a person who has murdered someone dear to you.3. "Start from the hardest thing. Forgive yourself first."

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This site just pops into my radar just rightly, when I have my new Nokia N95 phone (will talk about this later). Meanwhile I can just download all the videos formatted nicely for my phone, and I can view them while on the move. Cool!

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Going somewhere? Don't forget to carry a subway map with you.

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Salary negotiation actually forms a very part of a person's career, as a good salary negotiator tends to be a very good negotiator in their work as well. This site lists down some considerations when one is on the lookout for the next job.

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Yeah, Windows Vista is a whole new beast, I must refer to this site to tell myself what services to disable if my system is to run fast.

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Realised I have not posted for a number of days, guessed it must be attributed to the fact that I am making myself busy to change to my new job in MC.Anyway, life may be good now in some ways, it may be worse off in some other way. Whatever it is, I must tell myself to do 3 things while I am in this new state:1. Have compassion, empathy and generosity.2. Save, save, save ...3. Live healthy, live

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This personality test in full name is actually called Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, in which it is designed to assist a person in identifying some significant personal preferences. More on this test here in Wikipedia.Take it if you have the time to know what kind of personality you have. :)

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Yes, it is possible. Contrary to all the bullsh**t that M$ has mentioned in their KB that it is not possible to boot Windows XP from an USB harddisk, actually it is possible!Now, why would I want to boot Windows XP from a USB harddisk? That is because, I want to play games on my PC, and I do not want to corrupt my current working harddisk, which I spent a lot of time to optimize it. :P Not only

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Yeah finally got my new ThinkPad T60. Spent approximately a week to configure Windows and Linux on it, and that explains why I have been missing all of a sudden since after Home Improvement Plan 2.0. More time spent doing up the Linux, as the wireless driver is SO hard to configure. Then have to spend time trying to figure out how kismet and aircrack-ng fits in, but now the problems are all

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Part of HIP 2.0 is to also spruce up the kitchen:1. Bread making machine - Bought one bread making machine, and eating bread has never been a better experience. I doubt that I will now buy bread from any bakery anymore. :P2. Knives set - Bought a set of Zwilling J.A. Henckels Professional S series. The previous set of knives set I have started to show some rust on the blades, and it is not sharp

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Shan't go too much into about my PC setup, because a PC is just supposed to be a, PC.What I will describe is what are the criteria now in building up a new PC.1. QUIET QUIET QUIET! I just realised Prescott CPU (Pentium 4 series) has serious heat generation issues, and to offset the heat, they need a fan to spin at super high speed to cool the heat. The sound I have endured in my previous PC was

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Now, with all the massive storage to be transferred to the ReadyNAS NV+ storage system, how am I going to move them in a finite amount of time (Read: do not take me one whole day to copy files). The problem with existing network technology is that everyone is still using 100 Mbps switch, whereas their network card is already 1 Gbps ready, thus not really utilising the Gigabit technology at

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The Squeezebox is the best thing that I have ever bought in my life. Imagine listening all your MP3s from your hifi streamed through wireless network from your RAID storage device. Squeezebox makes it possible.There are too many features in Squeezebox that I have not even covered 5% of it yet. You have to visit Slim Devices website to read about all its specifications.Buying the Infrant ReadyNAS

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Now, what prompted me to start Home Improvement Plan ("HIP") 2.0?It all started with me wondering, how the hell am I going to ensure that all my music, photos and documents are adequately protected should the harddisk die? With these data only increasing and not decreasing, harddisk space becomes very scarce, and with the weather predicted to be hot in the coming years, harddisk life may get

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It has been 11 days past New Year, and 15 days after my last post. I have been pretty busy for the last 15 days, busy preparing and executing Home Improvement Plan 2.0. The next few posts shall be talking about what I have done to improve my house.It is a new year, and with this new year, again I have a new job. This new job should not be different from the old one, except that I will really have

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This site has a lot of high quality and interesting optical illusions. My eyes (and mind) are very tired after seeing 3. :(

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This seems to be a useful list, shall try point 3 and 7 to see if it is useful.The signals our bodies use to tell us we need to cleanse ourselves physically, mentally, and emotionally are multifaceted and often mirror symptoms we associate with illness. If we heed these signs, we not only feel better quickly but also stave off poor health before it can start. These quick fixes for common ailments

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This site has an amazing collection of beautiful and interactive Flash animations. The beauty is beyond description, and you have to experience and play with it for yourself.

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Next best thing to remote control on your big stinking sofa set. :)Definitely have the complete series of South Park, most of the Desperate Housewives, Band Of Brothers (?!!!), and I am definitely curious about The Office series. Good for killing time.

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Saw this quite educational site and thought that I will like to keep it linked so that next time if any of my female friends want to try, I will make them read this comic first.

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Well, there are many websites that talk about their favourite Top 10 Firefox extensions. Now there is a website that contains the Top 10 website that talk about their favourite Top 10 Firefox extensions. Got it?Me? 10 is still simply not enough. Look at my previous post.

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[Updated from previous post dated 25 June 2005]In case you are wondering what extensions do I use for my Firefox, below is the list and why I used them.1. DictionarySearchFor looking up words that you don't know. It can query up to four custom dictionary websites of your choice.2. downTHEMall!Help you filter out all the links, and let you do a mass download on filtered extensions.3. Enhanced

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Hmm, I realised that Firefox 2.0 was released while I was on holiday. If one is to upgrade to this browser, one must take note of the extensions compatibility list. Luckily, this website compiles some information on whether your extensions are compatible or not.

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Just came back from a week stay at 3 separate Banyan Tree locations: Bangkok, Lijiang and Ringha. Basically it is an unforgettable trip where in Ringha, I stayed in a mountainous area that is 3200m above sea level. Will talk about the experience once I have settled down.

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王桂英, an amazing paper cutter from China, can cut very extraordinary paper cuttings that no one has ever seen before. I got to know her from Discovery channel when there is a documentary made on her life. It seems that she had a hard life for 62 years, until fate brought her to better life when someone discovers her skills.More about her life can be seen here.I am humbled by this amazing woman,

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Don't worry, this picture says it all. :)

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This is a pretty interesting website where you can see actual African animals in the safari without needing to be there.Definitely very friendly for me who dreads to think of the living conditions in Africa. :(

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It took me one week to really settle down and clear all my stuff after my long business trip ...Oh well, I better clear them all, 'cos after this week, I may be gone for 3 more weeks.Z-z-z-z-zz ...

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Why are the beautiful subway stations mostly found in Europe? Because Europeans appreciate the importance of art merging nicely with the environment for the common folks.One day, I wish I can cover all the subway stations listed in this site.

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Hmm, previously I was so bold to even think of driving from the Sydney airport to my hotel, a 30 km drive.I can still remember my hands trembling when I was trying to figure out how to drive to my hotel. Was it due to the coldness, or my nervousness, I don't know. What I do know was, 10 minutes later, I started to drive without absolutely any idea where I was going.Somehow, the signs in Sydney

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Damn ... it is cold here. :(

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Put 4 men, 8 treadmills, and lots of time together, and this is what they can do for you. :)If you ever want to do a very innovative skeet for an event, this should be it!

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The last of the Grow series (I think). Grow RPG is more interesting than the previous 3 because it actually shows you a story of what happened at the end, and it last pretty long. The end should look like this:The correct sequence to let you see the whole story is:1. Town2. Forest3. Castle4. Water5. Tower6. Rock7. Chest8. Stairs

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Grow 2.0 is slightly simpler ... and the end results should look like this.The right sequence is:1. Cone2. Cube3. Paper4. Cyclinder5. Hole6. Ball

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