Everyday is a Journey.
W E B L O G # 770
Sunday, February 27, 2005
Global 24 Images
An online photo competition held by Urbis, Manchester's Museum of Metropolitan Urbanism, established on the site of 1996's Republican Army's Attack.
Thursday, February 24, 2005
新郎臨陣縮沙 新娘即場嫁陌生漢
extracted from www.mpinews.com 18/02/2005
印度一名新郎在婚禮前指新娘「貨不對辦」，臨時縮沙棄「妻」而去，新娘子連忙即席 「 徵 婚 」 ， 要求志願者頂替新郎空缺，最終閃電下嫁一名素未謀觀禮男子，歷時數分鐘便締結一段「 速成婚姻 」。
準 新 郎 原 定 在 米 爾 扎 布 爾 舉 行 婚 禮 ， 在 儀 式 舉 行 前 卻 臨 陣 退 縮 ， 聲 稱 新 娘 蘇 吉 並 非原 先 安 排 「 相 睇 」 的 女 子 ， 因 而 選 擇 逃 婚 。 新 娘 的 親 戚 群 起 追 趕 逃 婚 「 薄 倖 郎 」 ，雙 方 一 輪 糾 纏 ， 最 終 讓 新 郎 逃 脫 。
新 娘 蘇 吉 眼 見 新 郎 逃 去 ， 發 表 驚 人 宣 布 ， 邀 請 在 場 男 士 頂 替 新 郎 ， 稱 有 誰 願 意 與 她成 婚 ， 可 上 前 坐 進 她 身 旁 的 空 位 。 男 子 巴 爾 拉 姆 立 即 自 告 奮 勇 與 蘇 吉 結 婚 ， 蘇 吉 的父 母 亦 即 席 批 准 婚 事 ， 婚 禮 順 利 完 成 。
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Monday, February 21, 2005
Gmail growing
Just discovered today that Gmail is offering me a quota of 50 give-aways to invite people to join - guess they are preparing to expand rapidly...
Sunday, February 20, 2005
Thermometer - Week 3, Febuary
Hot - Hongkongers flying away for Chinese New Year (CNY)
Cold - Mainlander tourists coming to Hong Kong for CNY
Hot - Korean TV Drama Series
Cold - Japanese TV Drama Series
Hot - Latin Fok Kai Kwong
Cold - William Hung
I've joined Flickr today (Don't know why I didn't heard anything about such a great service which has been around for a year already). Some friends said it's similar to Imagestation but I'd rather support services provided by little known company than International names like SONY. Flickr is like a people-meeting portal with almost all common personal services such as friend-network, IM, photo-sharing, blogging, photo-organising, discussion groups...etc.
It does overlap somehow with what I intend to do in my own blog. but I guess I could use Flickr as my complete online photo archive. Photos appearing in my blog would be selected from my Flickr collection. And I guess I would keep posting screenshots in my blog instead of in Flickr as it seems more appropriate to divide this way. In general I like the service and recommend anyone interested to take a look on the introductory tour in its website. My Flickr sidebar is present in this blog now as a complement.
Friday, February 18, 2005
Sunday, February 13, 2005
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Christo & Jeanne Claude - The Gates in New York Central Park
Extracted from www.christojeanneclaude.net 11-02-2005
On January 22, 2003 Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, announced that the city has given permission to New York artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to realize their temporary work of art:The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005.
The 7500 Gates, 16 feet (4.87 meters) high with a width varying from 5' 6" to 18 feet (1,67 m to 5,48 meters) will follow the edges of the walkways and will be perpendicular to the selected 23 miles of footpaths in Central Park. Free hanging saffron colored fabric panels suspended from the horizontal top part of the gates will come down to approximately 7 feet ( 2,13 meters) above the ground. The gates will be spaced at 12 foot (3,65 meter) intervals, except where low branches extend above the walkways allowing the synthetic woven panels to wave horizontally towards the next gate and be seen from far away through the leafless branches of the trees. The temporary work of art The Gates is scheduled for February 2005, to remain for 16 days, then the 7,500 Gates shall be removed and the materials will be recycled.
Image from Wired New York
What else could draw visitors to visit a place than a truly beautiful piece of art? More coverage at these links -
The New York Times
Wired New York
Friday, February 11, 2005
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
A Frustrating David Tao CD
First of all - I'd like to emphasize that the title of today's article is "A Frustrating David Tao 'CD'", not "A Frustrating David Tao 'Album'". There IS a difference between them - I would explain it below.
Last Saturday I bought the new album of David Tao which he had spent over two years producing it (In case anybody outside Asia doesn't know, in the asian market, a singer releases an album twice or more a year usually). I've not really listened to any of the songs in it yet before buying but in the reputation of DT, I've made no reservation when finding a price tag of HK$75 (less than US$10) at store on display.
Then the nightmare began. When I look at the backcover on the way back home, there's a couple of small words about "Copy Control CD" at the bottom which an normal person wouldn't notice that when shopping a CD in the "conventional Hong Kong Mini-Shop Arcade" environment (anybody doesn't have any clue please come to visit HK for the ultimate experience). Let me stress here it is not a pirated copy - it is bought in a very small (probably the size of an ATM service corner with 3 machines) shop in Wanchai. People usually just go right into the cashier counter (after visiting HMV for preview) and tell the keeper the name of the CD/DVD they wanna buy then pay & leave with the products wrapped in a small plastic bag from the keeper in less than 3 seconds.
When I put the CD into my PC (a very very normal practice in the year 2005 when Hi-Fi is already out in everyday life except the theatre experience in watching DVD or you are taking a day-off sitting at home doing nth), a window pop-up telling me that I must allow sth to be installed in my PC before I could listen to it. That I knew I was cheated by the music industry. OK - fine, I press "ok" in such "no-choice" situation unless you give up listening to it. Then a totally stranger CD player interface popped-up and play the songs. I have no way to transfer the songs into my mp3 player as you could expected.
Fair enough I could only admitted to myself that it IS my own fault that I have not read the small words before paying. So I decided to bring the CD back to office for listening after office hours in overtime. You got it right - more to come! Since I'm not the administrator of the office network I have no right to allow the CD to install anything in my office workstation, thus making my efforts of bringing the CD back totaly useless!
Can you believe that somebody who paid real $ to support the music industry would result in no right to listen it in their mp3 & office pc? Now I understand why people download mp3 all the time. If somebody from or near the industry reads this, please can they be more active in making their products accessible and usable in future.
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