05 April 2002

Read about the Cyberport on the dead tree version of SCMP. Response for the project was "lukewarm". From the article, it appears that the rent is about HK$10 per sq ft, and management fee is HK$5 per sq ft. Considering that the Cyberport is pretty much in the middle of nowhere, where other supporting infrastructure is seriously lacking, no wonder why. The SAR government is deeply involved in this project. Again, one of those sad plans and sad projects. Should have seen some head rollings, but as usual our CE is a nice guy. The way I see it, it's another sign of social decline. I am tempted to open a new category called "Social Restructuring" for this sort of things. 11:55:21 AM

I have not written lately. Been busy doing other things. I even missed the excellent tutorial on macro photography the fine folks at NPC did. A weblog is supposed to be a continuous journal. The theory is that the weblogger would be putting all thoughts and idea along the day. This is obviously not happening with this one you are reading. I average about a few entries each week. It's not that I have been idle. In fact, normally I only find time to sit down and do the writing when I have some spare time and free from other engagements. I did consider doing the weblogging on my Palm. It works, as previously demonstrated on this site. I even found a place where they are selling a Palm III keyboard for HK$600, which is a reasonable deal. The problem is that I have some doubts about this investment. The Palm III form factor is near obsolete. This Palm III keyboard will only fit my Palm IIIx and the Handera 330. In view of the existing Palm PDAs Sony have been bringing out, I have doubts as to whether the replacement for my trusty IIIx will be a Handera, and I do not intend to replace it unless it is somehow destroyed. So the IIIx keyboard is likely to be useless for the replacement machine, and I'd have to get a new keyboard at a higher price. (Which reminds me to do a HotSync for my IIIx.) Anyway, weblogging with my IIIx is unlikely to happen. The iBook is too big for lugging around for weblogging purposes. I am planning to buy a Powerbook for real work anyway, and I don't want to take this HK$30K machine with me everywhere. I checked out a very portable IBM Thinkpad at the PCCW shop. It's nice looking, battery life is reasonable (nowhere near the battery life of Mac portables thou), and the price is okay, but there is only one problem: the keyboard is very small. I couldn't touch-type on it. I think the keyboard of Sony Picturebooks are bigger, but they are also expensive and I am not sure I would like their tiny screens. Oh well. The search goes on. 11:44:07 AM