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Flooded

picture(4).jpgSo this is what greeted me this morning when I stepped outside of my apartment building, trying to get to work. I might as well took my clothes off and swam across the intersection! Here are the blurry pictures from my camera phone. You can just about able to make out the huge splashes made by the slow travelling Jeep.

picture(2).jpgAfter watching many people bravely walked across the ‘pond’, Leah decided to test the water and walked around the corner. There she found that the land was pretty much dry and called me on the cell phone to let me know! The irony was that Leah didn’t even need to be out this morning! She was just craving for her daily dose of Starbuck coffee!

picture(3).jpg Women who were dressed in skirts and sandals were very fortunate. All they needed to do were pulled up their skirts and walked on. Me, I had to put on my trainers (tennis sneakers for the American readers), rolled up my trousers, and took a pair of dry socks and my work shoes with me. Of course, with the water up to knees deep in places I ended up with completely soaked shoes and socks by the time I got to the office.



[composed and posted with ecto 2]

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OSXplanet

Courtesy of Michael Hanscom, this free app OSXplanet is fantastic! Now I have periodically updated globe view on my desktop.

[composed and posted with ecto 2]

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Glasses are back

So I got my Oakley eye glasses back yesterday. No charge! Apparently the frame is under warrenty. Not sure whose warrenty, Oakley’s or the opticians but I don’t really care 🙂

[composed and posted with ecto]

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Unstable iMac?

Charles Cook comments that the new G5 iMac doesn’t look stable. I thought that about the new LCD displays too, especially the large 23″ and 30″ ones. But when I saw those displays in person couple of weeks ago, they turn out to be very stable despite the small metal stands. I would expect the new iMac to be stable too.

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But then again, may be not…

I thought I will like ecto 2’s WYSIWYAG editing capability. I was definitely excited by it. Before I go on though, let me explain my expectation of this feature.

From the screen shots and description, I imagined that it would work similar to Dreamweaver or even Frontpage! What do I mean by that? I expect the ability to switch between HTML code mode and Preview mode seamlessly (in ecto 2 they are called ‘HTML mode’ and ‘Rich Text mode’ respectively). This will allow me to compose new blog post in HTML mode, add link, add html tags, etc. while switching to Rich Text mode as a form of quick preview. I understand that the Rich Text mode is not designed to be used like this, but hey, it is there someone will use it this way 🙂 And by switching modes between HTML->Rich Text->HTML (I will call this ‘mode flipping trick’ from here on), I do not expect ecto to generate additional html tags for me.
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