24 February 2002

Technology: Deal agreed to make all stolen mobiles useless. 04:16 ET - Ananova [NewsBlip.com] My brother in law deals in second hand mobile phone. His business is very good. He takes in a lot of used-phones, some of them pre-owned, some of them of questionable origin. If the same thing happens in H.K., I suppose his business would go down quite a bit. Would the network operators do it? I doubt it thou. 9:44:34 PM

Internet Gives You Attention Span Of A Goldfish -- Oooh, Fishflakes.Com! [Plastic] How true. Does that mean my weblogs never get read to the end? 7:54:43 PM

My trusty faithful old Sony 15sf II (which I bought back in 1996) suddenly died. Power seemed to be on, but the green power light and the orange standby light were both on, plus the geom light was also on. The screen however didn't come on. Ken mentioned this place in SSP that sells 2nd hand equipment for cheap, which I walked pass before but didn't pay too much attention (things were actually not that cheap when I first visited the place). Went down there with a photog friend Billy, and each of us got a big Nokia 21" for $650. I spent all yesterday evening treaking the config in Linux, and have it now running at 1280x1024/15bit at 85Hz. Nice, but I need a BNC cable to take full advantage of it. Oh not to forget, the Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro I am using was a freebie given to me by another photog friend Peter. Hey Peter are you going to come upload your website to my server? That place has also got a few HP DLT tape drives, which are going for $1,000. Tempted. CD writers just don't cut it when it comes to backing up modern harddisks or networks. 10:58:35 AM

Funny photo. Must see. 10:31:36 AM