Archive for May, 2003

Hey! Where is the Beef?!

Wendy’s may have ‘em.

According to Donald, there is none in Iraq after all. Oh, and Tony, you asked what more do we need; what more do you have?

Sons of bitches.

A New and Fatter Pyramid

Eat more fat.

Those Poor Chicks

I have been wondering what the Michael Moore remarks at this year’s Academy Awards was all about. This ABC’s 20/20 show shed some light on the issue.
After watching the 20/20 show just now, all I would like to say is…

If I were an American, who for generations have been fighting so hard for the freedom of speech, and finally, all that hard work just boils down to was what’s coming to the Dixie Chicks bashing, I’d be ashamed of myself !

JPM Toons

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Some very nice and funny cartoons of Formula 1 Team William’s driver Juan-Pablo Montoya here.

Baby Martin

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Introducing Astin Martin AMV8 Vantage. A 2 seater that is 15cm shorter than a BMW 330Ci coupe.
More photos here.

Intriguing, Mon Capitaine

Oh my god! They’ve killed…
I know I know, Kenny from South Park is not in this movie but…

I have just bought the region 1 DVD of Nemesis and finished watching it for the first time of this movie. Hong Kong TV and cinemas never did have much interests in the Star Trek series. No wonder most Hong Kongers are so hopelessly poor trained in dealing with adverse situations like SARS.

I do not understand why the reviews have been so negative on this particular ST movie. Although it may not be the best TNG show of all time, and Nemesis does need more of lead-in story lines to better fulfill the plot, IMO it is the best ST movie so far.

That’s all I have to say for now, as I think, Tin, you ought to buy yourself a copy for your collection…. NOW.

Must Pay to be Found

Several years ago, I helped NPC register its URL on to several major search engines. Although they took a couple of weeks before it’s done, they were all free of charges.

Last night, I tried to search for this site with James Mok’s Soliloquy as the search parameters in several major search engines, and only Overture came up with the exact match as their very first result! While a couple engines only found Tin’s blog containing the word Soliloquy, many others came up with all sorts of other sites with the word Soliloquy but this site.

I then went on and tried to register it to the usual search engines. All but AltaVista charge a fee, and AltaVista’s free registration will take 4-6 weeks. Surprisingly, Google, being one of the most powerful search engines around, was one that did not get a match with mine (but at least matched it with Tin’s), and it doesn’t even have a registration or sign-up function, at least not that I could find.

Contrary to this review on Meta-Search engines, Surfwax came up with an exact match as its very first result and it even listed out some of the contents on demand. But the problem is, Meta-Search engines themselves are not so widely known.

D’you Dig?

A guide on Meta-Search Engines.

This Just In


Introducing, Fujitsu LifeBook P-5010.

Avant Browser

Talk about speedy support. Yesterday, I have installed Avant Browser, tested it a bit, and wrote this. Today, I found that they have fixed the bug on menu encoding in non-English system just now! I’d like to think that someone at Avant saw my blog and made the necessary correction even though it would be too far fetched to think that anyone else other than myself and Tin would actually read my blog at all, well… fat chance.

I have done some more testing on Avant Browser and found the following…

Allows multiple start-up homepages to be auto loaded at the start
Allows saving all tabs and their locations upon exit and auto reloads them all on next start
Allows tabs or widows to be opened either on the foreground or on the background with either a blank Page, current page, home page, or from Clipboard.
One toggle button to maximize window which auto hides all tool bars.

Although I find most Avant Browser functions to be major improvements over IE6, AB’s search button replaced my most used IE6 category search with a plain built-in Google search even though there is already a Google search bar on AB, which does essentially the same thing as the button does except for advanced search. I missed the one button dictionary search on IE6, but I have found a work around. I preset AB to start by opening both my regular home page as well as Merriam-Webster’s dictionary site. This way I have both of them on tabs for instant access.

I have sent the AB guys a suggestion to either switch their search button back to IE6’s original, or add another button to do so.

We’ll see how it goes.