The Stream

Current distractions: Roger Waters - In the Flesh (Live) and Roger Waters - The Wall - Live In Berlin. Both highly recommended.

If you are interested in web programming, take a look at my wild mix of XML, XSLT, XML Schema, CSS, and the result! Just notice the client-side, interactive column sorting through XSLT and my quite portable processXML.js. Drop me a line if you find it useful.

Tonight I went to see the long-awaited Revenge of the Sith and I am really pleased with this final episode of the story. Now I finally know how Supreme Chancellor Palpatine became the Emperor, why he looks as he looks, how Anakin became Darth Vader, how the crumbling Republic became the first Galactic Empire, and many other plots. Of course the visual effects were really stunning, absolutely first-class. For me, this is a great movie. Thank you George for creating the Star Wars Galaxy, a great entertainment.

PlayStation 3 Unveiled!
I must admit that its hardware specification and demos are mind-blowing.

... it's a wild hurricane, all right, hold tight...

Today I bought Deep Purple's Machine Head on SACD. This is the original quadraphonic mix from 1972. It sounds great on my 6.1 home entertainment system, even if this is "only" a quad mix. I especially enjoy Lazy, but remember to... listen to it LOUD! ;) A superb album...

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?

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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.

[image] "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.