I’ve sold my Sigma 15-30mm zoom on Yahoo! Auctions and will probably pick up a Sigma 20mm f1.8. With the benefit of experience and hindsight I wouldn’t have bought the 2 zooms that I did. Eventually I will moving to an all prime set-up. After the Sigma 20mm, I am looking towards [...]
Posted on May 31st, 2006 by Ian Cheung
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Some nice themes for Mac OSX Firefox to help it blend in better with Mac OSX. I’m using GrApple (Eos).
Pity they can’t help Firefox to behave more like a Mac OSX app. I’m constantly switching between Camino and Firefox under OSX to try to see which fits in better with my [...]
Posted on May 27th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
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Pretty cool uv-light tattoos. There’s a bit of a stigma/prejuidice in Japan for people with tattoos, maybe this could be an answer, especially with night-club goers?
Posted on May 26th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
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Just finished reading The Tipping Point and Blink both by Malcom Gladwell. I have to agree with a lot of people including Justin who lent me the books, that the earlier book The Tipping Point is the better of the two.
Blink is a good read, but The Tipping Point is a lot [...]
Posted on May 24th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
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One of the most popular posts (at least from search engine led) visitors on this site is the Japanese Postal Codes in English one. Unfortuantely it only covers 6 major cities. People looking for Okinawan postal codes are out of luck.
But here’s something that everyone who can type Japanese on [...]
Posted on May 24th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
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