The Stream

 Lisp files handling and filter have been merged into the mainline.

The Free Software Foundation has moved to a new office and they released the third revision of the GPL version 2. Their new postal address is:

Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
Boston, MA 02110-1301
USA

Google

A new and useful feature, the Search History.

Part IV

H.L. Tam's Hong Kong Life Photo Gallery, Thierry's Hong Kong Atmosphere Photo Gallery, Michel Girardet's Hong-Kong 2004 Photo Gallery, David Dong's Yangtze Cruise 2003 Photo Gallery, Jonathan Wong's That's Hong Kong Photo Gallery, Codino A.C. Divino's Hong Kong Photo Gallery, River Ko's Hong Kong Photo Gallery, Norman Tam's Wong Tai Sin Temple Photo Gallery, Chuyh's Hong Kong Photo Gallery, Peter Kwok's Hong Kong Photo Gallery, William's Shanghai & Hangzhou Photo Gallery, Chuyh's Yang Shuo Photo Gallery.

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Translating Natural Language to Code

Natural language is so semantically rich and flexible that if it could be computationalized as a programming language, maybe everyone could write programs, says Hugo Liu, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Read more...

Seth Nickell's K00l Luminocity OpenGL Videos.

Google

Google goes X, huh, another cool JS hack.

Update, 17 Mar 2005: Uhm, and it's gone, but I was lucky to see it :P. Read more...

Contrarian Minds -- the engineers, scientists, and dreamers of Sun Microsystems.

Part III

David Dong's Best of China 2003, Henry Ho's China's Impression Photo Gallery, Jennifer Zhou's China on the Move Photo Gallery, Bernard Tse' Cityscape of Hong Kong Photo Gallery, andesheng's China Photo Gallery, Tim Chong's Hong Kong Photo Gallery, China Art's Photo Galleries, Jonathan Chen's Yunnan Photo Gallery, Martin Sidgreaves's Guangzhou Photo Gallery, Chen Qinghui's Fujian Photo Gallery, Frank Loehner's Photo Galleries, Chor Ki Cheng's Photo Galleries.

Google

A Behind-the-Scenes Look.

Can you do this with your mail/frm?

If you still haven't started using GNU Mailutils, you may want to get it now and learn more about this powerful mail framework API, mail clients, servers, and utilities.

"Scheduling without reference to reality."  Funny how familiar it is now...

These guys at Google rock! They just launched another cool service, Google Maps. Currently it is restricted only to U.S. areas, but I'm sure they will add more parts of the world in the next few years.

Part II

Filip Dabrowski's China 2004 Photo Gallery, Filip Dabrowski's Shanghai Photo Gallery, David Warren's China and Tibet Photo Gallery, Doug Janson's China Galleries, alvin's Hong Kong the City of Life Photo Gallery, Eddie Ling's Hong Kong Scenic Photo Gallery, micros' Hong Kong Photo Gallery, Roland's Hong Kong Photo Gallery, Owen Wong's Hong Kong Photo Gallery, H.L. Tam's Hong Kong Sketchbook Photo Gallery, Henry Ho's Red China Photo Gallery, Murtaza Amiji's Hong Kong Photo Gallery.

First Program Executed on L4 Port of GNU/HURD!

Great, wonderful music, and the excellent album covers...

A nice-looking Beagle Demos made by Nat.

Finally, Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine's new president!

Cell Architecture Explained article by Nicholas Blachford.

Hacking, Coca-Cola, and Pink Floyd. Good time.

Happy GNU Year!

I just finished reading Paul Graham's book "Hackers & Painters". It was a very interesting read, worth my time. I especially enjoyed chapters "The Other Road Ahead", "How to Make Wealth", "Beating the Averages", and "Revenge of the Nerds". The last two have increased my will to master more Lisp/Scheme. I highly recommend this book.