Blog from the Loft

Finally — I get Chinese character ID3 tags and sound file names !! Hurray. I just decided to start using iTunes 4.2 to rip my CD’s instead of my trusty MusicMatch because the box with MusicMatch installed is a slower box. What a surprise when I inserted my HK Pop CD, and iTunes displays song [...]

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Career inspiration, Jonathan Ive has the best job in the world?

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At the end of 2002 I said I need to stretch more, read more, program more, travel more, and I left 2002 with a giant cliff hanger — my Loft project. 2003 ended up being a year of major changes. The Loft project is phase one completed. Moving from the burbs to downtown, selling a [...]

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I have a rather old Shuttle small form factor PC running Redhat Linux. The graphical display have always looked aweful for some reason. I had a similar Redhat running on my Thinkpad and the display looks much better. The fonts on the Shuttle always look bad. Almost after a year I found this article which [...]

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Car makers have added cup holders, sun glasses holders, coin holders, and nick nack holders to car cabin. Why can’t they add a trash bin in the cabin somewhere in the front seat? A small covered bin that is easily accessible, more deep then wide, removable for cleaning, would sell more cars then you think.

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Firstly, I finished all my Christmas and change of address cards this weekend. I have been using my own photograph and printing Christmas Cards at Ofoto. Secondly, I did all my Christmas present shopping at Amazon. Everything. Not a single trip to the mall! Finally, not quite a commercialization issue, but I finally, FINALLY, used [...]

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BOSTON — The powerful weekend snowstorm that piled more than 3 feet of snow on parts of the Northeast moved out to sea Monday but its effects lingered as hundreds of schools closed and thousands of air travelers remained stranded. Am I glad that I moved to the city and no more snow shovelling for [...]

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