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Has anyone seen the latest government APIs on new red-light rules? Whoever did those APIs must have never driven a car.
“Stop on yellow light.” That’s just braindead. Devoid of common sense. Given that drivers here tailgate at every opportunity, if they do what the government wants them to do…
This must be some kind of New Year’s joke.
I received my Common Recruitment Exam results last Saturday. I passed all three papers, including Chinese. Which is great, but I haven’t studied any Chinese since Primary 4.
What does this say about the declining language proficiency level in Hong Kong?
- Sleep before 12am every night
- Get into shape: eat well + regular excercise
- Really implement Getting Things Done
- Finish the Personal MBA
- Grow existing investments by 15%
- Save 50% of income
Should be enough for a year…
Noticed this on my way to a meeting today: some roads around Tokyo are getting their surfaces redone with a kind of asphalt that traps rainwater.
What’s the point? Well as you know, asphalt is a rather heat-absorbing material, which means it is not a very good thing to have all around you during summer. So the Japanese have figured out a way of trapping rainwater inside the top 10cm or so of the asphalt surface on roads, without making the road too slippery. When that trapped rainwater evaporates, evaporative cooling naturally cools down the road surface.
Very neat.
KA361, NRT-HKG, December 9 15:30 (UTC+9) - 18:55 (UTC+8)
CX418, HKG-ICH, December 11 14:00 (UTC+8) - 18:30 (UTC+9)
CX411, ICH-HKG, December 15 15:20 (UTC+9) - 18:15 (UTC+8)
All three CJK countries within two weeks.
KA360, Hong Kong -> Tokyo, December 4 07:50 (UTC+8) - 12:25 (UTC+9)
Yes, that means I miss out on the march. Again.
Speaking of the march, Apple Daily is once again trying to get as many people to go on the streets as possible during the past week, culminating with today’s headline, “For Our Next Generation’s Tomorrow, Go On Street Today”, together with a “I Want To See Universal Suffrage” banner.
Really he is. By using prime time TV to address everybody, even people who were disinterested in political reform are now very clear of the issues involved in the debate.
Very effectively, he reminded everybody to go march on Sunday.
Currently, Nautilus is hardcoded to draw the desktop icon’s captions in white with a black background. This works well for Latin scripts, but for CJK scripts where each character is pretty complex, the captions quickly become a jumble of black and white pixels.
Hence the following patch against Nautilus 2.12. It adds a GConf key /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_label_shadow, which when set to False prevents the shadows from being drawn. A nice side benefit is that Nautilus then checks the background colour, and draws captions in black if the background is light. Nice.
Screenshots later; gotta run now. Continue reading ‘Cleaner Nautilus desktop icon captions’
You think the new AIG Tower in Hong Kong looks like a mobile phone? Wait till you see this:
Crazy idea! The high-rise mobile
MILLIONAIRE mobile phone salesman “Crazy” John Ilhan has unveiled his radical design for a $40 million tower in the shape of a phone.
The distinctive 120m highrise in City Rd, Southbank, would house his multi-million-dollar communications empire and 166 luxury apartments.
Mr Ilhan, who put forward his “phone tower” plan earlier this year, hopes his distinctive building will become a Melbourne landmark.
“Every country has a building of some sort. Sydney has got the Opera House — why not this for Melbourne?” he told the Herald Sun.
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