29 January 2003

Signing Off I am retiring my Radio weblog. You are invited to visit my new MovableType weblog. 6:54:44 AM

23 January 2003

Po's Gig is Back Here. For US$40/HK$320 a year, Radio is very good value. Folks probably pay more for 40MB of web space alone. It really is a very good way to host a weblog. 8:06:16 AM

04 January 2003

Apple may charge for iApps The rumour is all over the place on the Internet. Apparently Apple will starting charging for the now-free iApps. I use iPhoto and iMovie, especially the former, quite a lot. If I had to pay for them, I probably would, but then I would also look at alternatives, such as the excellent iView Media Pro. As long as the iApps are reasonably priced, I would say it would be good for the platform in the long run, as this would push the users to try and evaluate the iApps as well as 3rd party offerings. 10:14:03 AM

29 December 2002

Short article: PBase Switching to for-fee Service 11:43:25 PM

22 December 2002

Rent a Telescope Astrophotography is hard. You need a fair amount of background knowledge and some hefty equipment. For those who live in or anywhere near a big city, light polution doesn't make it easier. It means that they would have to travel far with all the heavy equipment. Not to mention the loss of sleep. Not anymore. Rent a good telescope with the corresponding CCD camera from these folks. They are in Arizona where they have a lot more cloudless nights than most other folks. It's certainly an interesting idea. 3:03:54 PM

29 July 2002

Dropped my digital camera last week. Now it wouldn't focus to infinity. Had to take it in for repair. I am tempted by this. Since I bought my digital camera, I realized that unless I go for one of these, I am never going to be too happy with the quality. At consumer level, it's the convenience we should be after. The Casio water-proof job makes a lot of sense. 1:36:09 AM

05 June 2002

The organizer's figure of participants this year is 45,000. The police's figure is likely to be about half of that. Respectable turn-out I suppose, despite the World Cup going on. Number of participants seem to have stabilized over the last few years. Headache for the SAR government and our CE Mr Tung. Mr Tung wants us to forget about Tiananmen. However, in the foreseeable future, on every 4 June tens of thousand of people will gather to remember the dead. Folks say the Hong Kong people are practical, forgetful and forgiving. Not on the matter of government brutality we are not. 1:41:16 AM

For the last thirteen years, on every 4 June in Victoria Park in Hong Kong, lots of people join together and light up candles. I was there a few hours ago. I had my Nikon 5000 and my Hexar with me. Took ~130 pictures with the DC, and 1 roll and a bit of film with the Hexar. It's late in the morning. I'll upload more pictures later. Meanwhile, you might want to check out this. Usual warning: get your Quicktime player from here. 1:22:42 AM

12 April 2002

Double the Cost! I can easily double the cost for my photography hobby. The fine folks at NPC is organizing this. Pity I can't go... 7:25:41 PM

14 March 2002

National Geographic Afghan Cover Girl Found [Plastic] And here. For your interest. 8:59:11 AM

19 February 2002

I have meant to write this, but was kept busy, and got this nasty flu that just wouldn't go away (I'm still on medication.) Anyway, about the fireworks: we might be in a recession, and sometime we lose faith in our future, but we surely can put up nice firework shows. I never knew it, but that firework show gave me confidence in meeting the challenges ahead. I hope that it did the same thing to the thousand of people watching it. The "debrief" article I am supposed to write for the NPC website is overdue. Althou I have the outline, I have yet to actually get down to finishing it. My Win98 harddisk, which is my Chinese writing environment, has just crashed. All the data seem to be intact, but it seems that an unrecoverable bad sector has developed right at the beginning of the HD, so it just wouldn't boot. The IBM HD is about 15 months old. Bugger. 9:16:56 PM

13 February 2002

I am right now at TST waterfront, having my photo gear all set up & ready waiting for the Chinese New Year Fireworks. A bit disappointed that I could only find one fireworks boat. The NPC chairman is right next to me. Lots of old & new friends. The place is absolutely packed. Our location is excellent. Hopefully we should get some good pictures. 7:17:46 PM

12 January 2002

This is a test for photo-embedding in Radio 8.0. Looking good. 9:47:30 PM

08 January 2002

I have been busy working and finishing a project of twin websites. It's very close to delivery. Franki a photography friend complained that it is a hassle to burn his digital images onto CDROMs. He has a 1G microdrive. Everytime he needs to burn his images onto a CDROM, he has to manually fill the CDROM up by seperating his files. I am planning to write a little Perl script which would go thru a directory of files and seperate these files into groups and put them into directories of an arbitary size. Franki is not the only one who needs such a solution. Once this script is finished I'll sell it to Franki and then release it under GPL. No I don't hate him, it's just that development costs money, and he's in a good position to fund the project which will benefit us all. Sure he'll get credit for it. 8:49:19 AM

30 December 2001

The mini photo exhibition was quite a success. Lots of people, and they loved our photos! On average viewers did not spend as much time looking at our photos as viewers at the TST Culture Centre. I suppose the chilly weather and the loud noise don't help people stopping. They had this Englishman who sang and danced like Leon Lai. Good fun. Be warned, these files are rather big. To view them you need Apple Quicktime. Save these files to your local harddisk before playing them. If you missed this mini exhibition, don't despair. We are on again on 1/1/2002. Same place, same time. 10:49:54 PM

NPC will hold a mini photo exhibition today, near Western City in Sheung Wan, from around noon till sundown. The same exhibition will be held again on 1/1/2002. We were doing the framing a few hours ago. As usual, some excellent pictures. You can join NPC on the spot, so do come along and talk to us. 12:19:32 AM

06 November 2001

CompactFlash hits 1GB. Camera users smile [The Register] Microdrives are cheaper, but CF is solid state and therefore more reliable. I want that Nikon D1H! 7:59:56 AM

03 November 2001

Test for image file. 12:57:17 AM