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147 posts from 2008, newest first.
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Wine: Lindemans – Shiraz Cabernet
Tonight at dinner I came across a set of wines from Lindemans, Australia that are on promotion at Outback restaurant. The one I tried was their Premier Selection: Shiraz…
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Review: HK Fatburger Experience
On the weekend I walked by the new Hopewell property, Queens Road East, on Queen’s Road East, and noticed the long boarded up store front of Fatburger is no longer boarded up.…
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New Tariff Plan from Smartone-Vodafone for iPhone
As I still found my Smartone-Vodafone charges too high, I decided to look for alternatives, including those from competitors, like: PCCW, Three and People.
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Microsoft’s Ballmer considers using WebKit within IE
Recently during a developer conference in Sydney Australia, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the idea of using WebKit as the rendering engine within its web browser was…
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Movie Review: Quantum of Solace
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Street Washer
Street Washer
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Street Washer
Street Washer
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iPhone on Smartone-Vodafone Hong Kong [Nov. 1 Update]
I have now confirmed with Smartone-Vodafone that the Internet Browsing plan; now known as IOM plan, indeed only cover HTTP and the corresponding HTTPS traffic. So any web…
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Movie Review: City of Ember
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Old Lady Playing Piano
Old Lady Playing Piano
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HK Jockey Club Assisting the Arts
Today the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) announced the allocation of HKD7.5 million towards the Jockey Club Performing Arts Venue Subsidy Scheme. This scheme will offer rent-free…
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Advertising Tactics
Apparently Apple and Microsoft have took on the tactics that Coca Cola vs. Pepsi, and McDonald’s vs. Burger King used back in the 80’s.
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Emoticons for Life
Some of you may not heard of the term “Lifestreaming”, but it is the term coined to refer to the streaming of ones daily and often hourly events to followers.
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How Has Modern Day Communications Changed?
A friend of mine wrote a post about Social Networking in her blog. I could not help but comment on her post. Instead of simply commenting on her post in her blog, I’ve decided…
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How Has Modern Day Communications Changed?
A friend of mine wrote a post [about Social Networking](<http://newvalleygirl.blogspot.com/2008/09/sns.html> 'Post about Social Networking') in her blog. I coul
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Movie Review: Mirrors
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Creative Commons Arrives in Hong Kong
Great news for Hong Kong professional and non-professional content contributors. The University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) will host the Creative…
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Apple’s 2008.10.14 Event
This morning at 10:00 (PDT) in Cupertino, CA, USA, Apple held an event to announce the new MacBook Pro, MacBook and speed bumped the MacBook Air.