My Recently Update

Haven't update this blog for a while, here's my update:

My New York Trip on May to Visit Natalie & Jeff:
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My Seattle Trip on Oct for Perry's House Warming:
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Intel-Macs

Everyone knows Apple is selling Mac computer with Intel chip couple days ago. I post here just in case you miss it.

Read more:
Apple.com
How different are Intel-Macs from Intel PCs
Windows on Intel Macs - Yes or No?

FireFox 2.0 Draft Plan

Come across an article on mozilla wiki - Firefox:2.0 Product Planning:Draft Plan, kinad a interesting to preview some of the new features.

Jabber XMPP = Google Talk!

Haven't post anything for a while. Kinda busy after switch to a new job with a fast pace and challenge envirnoment.

I would like to talk about the open source Jabber XMPP Instant Messenger prototype this time. I remember I did a flash client IM using Jabber XMPP for my ex-company project. It is kinda standard IM for today's Open Source world.

As you know, Google release its Google Talk a month ago, I installed it and played it a little bit, and it is almost same as other IM in the market. To my surprise, it is using Jabber XMPP as the backbone of the whole chatting system. Nicely done! Open source Rock!

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Girlfriends Against Video Games

There is an interest article taking about that many girls complaining about their boyfriends spend too much time on playing video gamez. It's definitely a good article for my wife.

"We can all agree gaming is great, but there has to be some middle ground if your significant other doesn’t game..."

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Seko Couple Visit Vancouver

Wing's High school buddy, Seko and her husband Bruce from Wisconsin US, visit Vancouver on this Monday. We had a dinner at "New Shang Hai" Restaurant. Welcome to Vancouver, folks!

from left: Bruce, Seko, Wing and me
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New Wikipedia Search like Google Suggest

A new Wikipedia Search with LuMriX using AJAX, it just looks like Google Suggest.
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XBox 360 game console Selling in Store Today

"Hundreds of stores opened at midnight to satisfy fans who waited for hours. The curvy white and silver Xbox 360 marks the beginning of a new chapter in the history of video games."

Launch Party and Huge Lineup

One of the first to buy an Xbox 360 was 19-year-old Peter Gonzalez from Manhattan, who had waited nearly 30 hours at a local store.
"I feel amazing. It's going to be worth it," said the college student, who planned to stay up all night playing games before going to class in the morning.

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XBOX 360 SPECS

• Three IBM PowerPC-based 3.2 GHz cores
• One teraflop overall system floating-point performance
• ATI graphics chip with 10MB of embedded DRAM
• 512MB of 700MHz GDDR3 RAM memory
• Detachable 20GB hard drive
• Built-in Ethernet port
• Games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
• Streams media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP PCs
• Supports up to four wireless controllers

Bonus Reading:

• Microsoft Loses $100+ dollars per Xbox 360 unit (Reported on Slashdot)
  
"...the materials inside the unit cost Microsoft $470 before assembly. The console sells at retail for $399, meaning a loss of $71 per unit..."
• Nintendo & Sony line up in support of Xbox 360 launch
• Xbox 360 Crashing Like Mad?

DNS Utilities All-In-One Web Site

I don't know you're using it or not, but this site definitely a very useful DNS info center. If you have experience to check domain info at Whois.net, NetSolution, Register.Com and etc., you'll find out not all the information you get back from those sites can answer all your questions.
For example:

• What is your DNS speed (score)?
• Where is that IP address come from (City)?
• Where is the Spam email send from?
• DNS lookup or TraceRoute Info?

Now, they're all collected on ONE page - www.DNSStuff.com.

My Current Favor Taiwanese Singer

Well yes, Rainie(楊丞琳) is one of my favor singer currently. Her old song "Ai Mei(曖昧)" is touching, her voice is beatuiful, her face is so sweet. If you know where I can download her songs (MP3), leave me a comment.

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Rainie(楊丞琳) Howepage