Is it only me who doesn’t like the new style of the theme song for Star Trek: Enterprise? I think it is too lighthearted and not uplifting enough. I always have a lump in my throats whenever I watch the old version. Now, it is just comical. Why, oh why, did Rick Berman and Brannon Braga change the song?
Such a pain in the ass but I got to do it
Scanning photos using a film scanner is such a pain in the ass. It is time consuming, consists of sporadic activity (preview, wait, scan, wait, repeat), and there are always so many photos to scan. Well the last complain is partly my fault for not taking the ‘divide and conquer’ approach. I always took so many photos on every vacation that it would be a miracle not to end up with minimum of ten rolls of 36 exposures films.
But I’ve promised myself that I should get the best of our honeymoon photos online before our one year anniversary. So I’ve finally started on those photos today and hoping to get one roll done per night. See you in a week…
'ER' soundtrack
This has been bugging me for awhile now. On and off for the last year or so, whenever I remembered the ER episode where Dr. Greene die in Hawaii I always wanted to know one of the soundtrack that was used in the episode. The instrumental soundtrack in question was played during the kind of quiet section at the end where there weren’t any dialogs.
I’ve tried searching the web but have not been able to find it yet. So if anyone know, please email me the track name and the artist.
Safari wins in the end
After using OmniWeb 4.5 for awhile, I finally went back to Safari tonight. OmniWeb has nice features such as ad blocking and nice small fonts handling but it is not as fast as Safari, has no tab, and does not have integrated keychain support. This last missing feature is major contributing factor in my switching back to Safari. I am tired of typing in username and password every day.
Two years ago…
my day technically started when I left my office a few minutes past midnight. As I walked toward the WTC to grab a cab to go home, I looked up and marveled at how lucky I was to have the opportunity to work near these two buildings.
Slightly over eight hours later, I woke up to a nice Tuesday autumn morning. I wasn’t needed in the office until noon that day because of the late night before. The “This Morning” show on NBC was showing the usual rubbish.
Everything changed a few minutes later when I arrived at the gym in the basement of my apartment building. A group of people was crowding around the TV in front of the reception area. All of them wore the shock expression on their face. One particular woman, probably in her fifties, was sobbing that someone she knew was there.
As I turned to see the picture on the TV screen, my first thought was terrorism. May be I was conditioned that way after spending over ten years in the UK, with the IRA threat hanging over the population everyday.
We all thought that it could be an accident, and that it was probably just a small plane. We all had so much confidence in the firemen to put out the fire soon. But we knew different thirty minutes later when we watched, live, the second plane hit the south tower. I knew then that that day was going to be a turning point in human history…
For the rest of the day (and week), I was glued to the TV and my computer. Despite the lost of phone line and cell phone connection, my DSL connection to the internet was working fine. Thus, email and instant messaging became the de facto mode of communication for that day and rest of the week.
That day, I knew New York City is my home. It doesn’t matter that I was born and raised in Hong Kong and that I spent my teenage years in the UK. NYC is my home from that day forward.
Lost in Colonisation 