Angry rants on this unjust world
And here is the Debian business card that we made.
The card was originally designed using gLabels, but eventually I asked my colleague to redo the design using Freehand because the print shop won’t accept open formats like SVG or even EPS.
If anyone wants the AI file, let me know.
Oh BTW, gLabels is pretty good, but if it has snap-to-grid or snap-to-object options it would be perfect.
Thanks to keybuk for letting me know that my RSS 2.0 feed was invalid. Well, it is now. Apparently HTML tags need to be entity-encoded for the feed. Let’s see how well it works this time.
Finally the machine hosting this site is back online, but not before someone went up to the data center and found out that this machine stalled at a fsck failed prompt during bootup. Eck. This machine is still using the ext2 filesystem!
This blog is now available in RSS 2.0 format.
Arriving at JFK Airport around 1:45pm Monday 19th January. Departing from JFK Airport a bit before noon on Saturday, 24th January.
Flying long flights again. I hate them. At least I don’t need to be at Linux.Conf.Au the week before.
I’m discussing with ypwong about printing some Debian business cards for keysigning etc. Let’s see if we can have them printed in time.
Received an electricity bill last night, and decided to authorize Hong Kong Electric to direct debit from my bank account in future, so that I won’t forget paying the bills. So I filled out a form and went to a branch of my bank to submit it. Only to be told by the girl at the counter that my signature looks different to the one on their file.
But your signature doesn’t look right, sir.
That’s not possible, I signed the same way in years.
Your given name part looks correct, but your surname part looks different; it should be wider. Here,, handing me a piece of paper,sign once more here.
Here.
Still looks different… your surname part begins from the left not from the right…
Huh? It’s supposed to be an ‘S’, how could the stroke start from the left?
(Puzzled)Nevermind… I’ll lodge the form for you anyway, and see what they’ll make of it.
……
The amusing part is, after all of that I found out I could make the same application online via e-banking by filling out a simple HTML form. Which means they trust a short alphanumeric password more than my signature. Hmm.
In preparation for a time-limited demo version to be handed out at LinuxWorld New York in a few weeks’ time:
Let’s all have a safe and peaceful year.
While most people around the world celebrated the coming of the new year by partying and watching fireworks, we in Hong Kong celebrated by marching through downtown, demanding full democracy. The organizers estimated that 100,000 people joined the rally this time.
The demonstration was scheduled to start from Victoria Park at 3pm. We couldn’t make it on time, so we decided to skip straight to Wan Chai MTR station. We joined the rally at around 4pm.
Some people say that the objective for this rally is not as clear as the one back on July 1st, 2003. I don’t think so; in July people protested against a lot of things, including Article 23, “Cargate” Leung, government’s handling of SARS, and so on. This time around, there is only one objective: start the political reform process, to achieve full democracy ASAP.
I’m sure this is the wish of most Hong Kong people.
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