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2004-09-30T13:05:00.000+08:00

The example below is quotable as a reference for your discussion. Bit torrent (BT), this technology, is nearly always associated with illegal software/music file/movie trafficking. There are some discussion board, especially a mac-centric one, always banned the discussion of Bit Torrent. One of my friend, Albert Tam, always involved in the discussion of the technological aspect of bit torrent.

2004-07-26T11:33:00.000+08:00

In the past, I can’t persuade myself to read the books borrow from library. I can only read the book I bought from bookstore. I started to adapt myself to read the books I borrow from library. I am currently reading some UNIX 101 books from the public library. I need UNIX knowledge as I need to finish some projects later. Learning Windows or Macintosh OS are somehow like developing some kind

2004-05-03T17:25:00.000+08:00

A list of new computer virii was found every single day. Today, a new virus called w32.sassy or something was found (I like the word "sassy"), and listed in hospital intranet. At the same day, this virus with a bunch of other virii was found in my laptop computer at work. This virus even engulfed the anti virus software. Using the same analogy of human, this sassy virus infect the white cell like

2004-04-20T14:59:00.000+08:00

.mac.spymac Most of the user of the antiqued iTools considered .Mac is not worth of money. Well, some of them upgrade from iTools to .Mac simply for the delight "xxx@mac.com" e-mail address. You know, yourname@mac.com, wow, what a wonderful identity to show that you are a mac user. Maybe the Photo Album service of .Mac is delicious too. You can directly exported your photo album from iPhoto to

2004-03-16T09:27:00.000+08:00

Basically, I love Maths. But, I hate to compute and calculate. It is great that some software do the calculation for me. I love to find out the relationship and the hidden agenda in published papers, instead of analyzing the unpublished data in research. The mathematical alogirthm derived in published papers not only covered the scientific basis of the knowlege, but also the psychology and dark

2004-02-23T18:17:00.000+08:00

I don't want myself to be too geek-alike. Thus, I haven't update this place for quite a long time. However, I am afraid if I don't update this place for 3 months, Blogger may eliminate my records. So, I endup writting something here. For the last 3 months, I got substantial amount of academic achievements and even media coverage of research studies I involved. Moreover, my working hours, working

2003-11-08T09:43:00.000+08:00

It is very difficult for a office-sucker and home dweller to have 3 hours free time, but I have to update my diary. So, what should I do? Listwise update? seem to be a good idea. But a better approach is, using photos. I am not a anti-microsoft zealot or Apple hardcore fans. (I think, I am a loyal users of Apple products.) but.. IE sucks. After MS incorporate IE into windows 98, it make IE even

2003-10-19T11:26:00.000+08:00

Today geek diary is a little bit Mac oriented, even the Mac users still using OS prior OS 9 are ignored. Well, everyone (of course, not everyone, at least the one know a little bit about Mac, but not the one simply blah that Mac is bad without even touch it) knows that OSX is Unix Based. Unix has a spectrum of choice of scripting language for workflow automation. Some open source choices like

2003-10-06T17:26:00.000+08:00

Refering to a discussion in imacguru, you can see how beauty python is. The same code written in Perl and Python, you can judge the readability of the script. Perl Ver. #!/usr/bin/perl print "Enter the suffix to be changed: "; chomp($a = ); print "Enter the suffix that you want: "; chomp($b = ); @f = glob("*.$a"); for ($i = 0; $i < @f; $i++) { $_ = $f[$i]; s/.$a/.$b/g; if (rename

2003-09-26T20:52:00.000+08:00

It is really damn hard to learn this programming language - R. It is a little monster language specialized for statistic analysis. The benefit of using R is, it is opensource. But the commandline and programmer-centric statistic system freaked me out. I think it freaked out the social science student, statisticians, health care researcher, financial people and psycologist as well. THat's why

2003-09-19T06:41:00.000+08:00

If you check out my life in my primary blog, you know my life is full of shit these days. I feel that a set of numbers representing my happiness are dropping. For example, money I have, friends I have or love from my family. It really hurt. I am a biology student but started to fall in love with Maths, Stat and logic. I love to see the increasing figures which represent my sweat and brain soup.

2003-09-10T07:50:00.000+08:00

It is very good to know a little bit programming or scripting. As a office people, everyday, I need to switch on the computer and do a lot of tasks. Most of them are repetitive and dull. For example, I need to count the unique name in a text file few times a day. If I count it one by one, I will definitely wasted few hours. I know that some great apps in UNIX can like grep or awk can count it for

2003-08-31T15:07:00.000+08:00

Finally. I played the offspring of Debian Linux called Knoppix (Main site closed to protest against software patent. Visit Knoppix.net instead.)! A chinese version Mod translated by HKLUG. Well, it is great. Easy and nasty. I found that KDE is much better than gnome in my point of view. I also played the ancestor of Safari - Konqueror. Moreover, I tested this Knoppix Live CD on a HP Pentium 4

2003-08-28T08:25:00.000+08:00

2 Linux distributions celebrated their 10th anniversary, namely Debian and Slackware. They are the pioneers of Linux Distribution and designed the concept of "Distribution set" so that their competitors, like Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSE can follow. In fact, I am not a decent Linux/*nix Player. I find difficult for myself to install several Linux distributions, like the two that mentioned to be ten

2003-08-26T00:34:00.000+08:00

Bourne Sleepy Extremely Sleepy these day. I got enough sleep (Sleep at 1 or 2, wake up at 7), but I still dozing in the fucking workplace. Lately, I discovered an opensource and GUI enabled Statistic Package called SalStat. Alan James Salmoni writes it in Python, SciPy module, Stats.py module and wxPython. It is not only cross platform (currently, SalStat can be fired up in Windoze, Unices and

2003-08-21T15:37:00.000+08:00

These few days, I am thinking about to learn some new techniques. I know that I will start a lot of blah-projects if I started to think in this way. I promise to myself that I don't start any blah-projects anymore and concentrated on computer literatures. But I do feel I am a little bit dry in this period. So, I read a lot of books about computer and find out a particular technique I am

2003-08-18T00:53:00.000+08:00

I used to be the DJ of Hong Kong Para Para Association, one year before. Last night, I back to the scene to tour around, but not dance. I saw a little crown right there dance again, I feel a little bit uncomfortable. I am totally disappointed with the Japanese Pop Cultures, even-though I am grow up with them. As a youngster in Hong Kong, we like Japanese Culture. Most of them are really fast, I

2003-08-16T14:35:00.000+08:00

Yeah! This is a geek blog, the content of this blog is not for general public. It reflect the geek or freak side of me. So, if you feel uncomfortable with content, I am sorry about that and I highly recommand you to stop reading this blog. Statistic is an art. Before I work as a research assistant in a hospital, I think statistic is something to fool the general public. I always think that

2003-08-14T15:33:00.000+08:00

I am learning the style of working of the foreigners. You know, HKer and Chinese, like me, love to speak what he will do before he do. Just speak + never do. Foreigners do the things 1st and report what he have been done. I hate myself to be heavily influenced by Chinese Style of working. The other blog of mine encourage me to be such kind of working style. Since I can bullshit everything in that

2003-08-14T00:58:00.000+08:00

學習Python的進度十分慢。原因是我要去學習OOP (Ojbect Oriented Programming)的概念。以我的資質，OOP是難以掌握的概念。學習總是這樣，但我會去看一些網上文章去學習。其實Python真的很有用，由其是玩過一些用了pygame API寫出來的遊戲之後。一直都有另一些夢想，如小學時曾想這設計一個電腦遊戲，當時流行街霸，自己也想寫一個來玩。原因也很簡單，與我要撰寫6KISS的原因一樣，都是因為當時無錢買來玩。現在要寫一個Mac OS X的Game，可以用TNT Basic，有時間我都想參透一下這個果西。如果有一天我可以參加uDevGame比賽，就算只是陪跑，也都如願足矣。因為已經證明自己能寫一個遊戲軟件。但不要再發夢了。

2003-08-14T00:57:00.000+08:00

第一次寫這個程式開發的Blog，其實寫Blog我十分習慣，而且是因為不想以上那個Blog看上去太Geeky而將有關電腦的東西移到這裡。但因為這次是有關軟件開發的Blog，卻不知由何說起。其實我第一次寫程式，是使用DOS 5.0送的QBasic。當時除了玩內建的「掟蕉」遊戲，也有簡單寫過點程式，當時我中一。當時更認真到圖書館借書學習，但當時只寫了一些無聊的小軟件（如卡拉ｏｋ房選歌軟件），不實用。而且有些Programming的技巧怎學都不明白（如Array, Subroutine等等），最終我也選擇了放棄。一直到現在再寫程式，今次選用的語言是Python。因為這是我唯一有把握學得成的語言，而且十分有用。其實我曾經去學習很多的語言，如Perl, C++, PHP, Applescript, Java等等，天資所限，只有Python我是看得明的。難怪Eric S.

2003-08-09T10:44:00.000+08:00

Hi! Evybd