An interesting platform is Habari which is aiming to be the next gen blogging platform of choice.  At first glance it is just another piece of blogging software in the world dominated by WordPress, Moveable Type and others.  I took one look at it and thought “nothing much to see here”.  BUT…
Upon hearing that [...]

Posted on August 21st, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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I never knew that ABS Plastic was a conductor until I had a tour of a sign maker’s factory where they plated signs made from ABS Plastic.  Not a very useful fact, but pretty interesting at least for me.

Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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I wrote a quick guide on how to download YouTube videos with nothing but Firefox and a plugin called Ook? Video Ook!
I was tired of looking for ways that worked (all of the time), and hopefully it can help others. I am hoping to translate the guide to Japanese, Chinese and French soon. [...]

Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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A picture of my Christmas (anniversary?) present from Rie. It is a Kurobox HG, and it functions as a server. I have it running Gentoo Linux and it is small, quiet and cool (in both senses of the word).

Posted on January 14th, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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I picked up a new life skill today. I learnt to tie my shoelaces. That’s right, at the age of 31 and thanks to the Internet I learnt to tie my shoelaces properly. I have always wondered why my laces never seemed symmetrical and why they came undone more often than other [...]

Posted on August 24th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
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