HK → UK → US → ?
Finally I can select the photo albums that I want to display in my TypePad blog sidebar, thanks to my buddy Nick. This is one of my biggest complaint about the “media” features of TypePad, along with the inability to allow comments on photos, etc. Unfortunately, this new feature comes about 5 weeks too late as I am done with waiting and moved on to Flickr already.
Technorati Tags: TypePad
Last week was a pretty quiet week on ecto support. All I had on my list were finishing off adding Radio Userland support earlier in the week and fixing a file upload bug on Friday. So I had all of today to add Technorati tags support to ecto, finally! It has been long time coming and judging from the amount of work I had to do today, I should have had done this many weeks ago. The feature works exactly like in the Mac version (minus support for del.icio.us and Flickr tags) which makes it easy for users who use both versions. The missing features right now are the keyboard navigation support and the right-arrow to Technorati page support, which will be added this week. The code is not optimised right now and I will be refactoring the code in the next few days to get it nice and clean.
I will also be refactoring some of the post window code into user controls to reduce the size of the form’s code file. Resharper is running slower and slower as the class file gets bigger and bigger. I can’t wait for Visual Studio .Net 2005 and the support of partial class file! Though, I think partial class file is a double edge sword that makes it much easier for lazy developers (like myself sometimes) not to refactor code. Ugly codes? Just throw them into the partial class file and they will never see the day again…
Technorati Tags: .net, programming
So I bumped into Zeljko Ivanek before but today’s encounter tops it easily.
Yesterday morning Leah left for work and minutes later she texted me to say that people are filming outside our apartment building. Apparently it is for Inside Man with Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, and Jodie Foster. When I left the building for work, they were still just setting up and I didn’t managed to see any actors, A-rate or otherwise.
When I left the office for lunch today, I spotted the movie trailers again and I knew it is the same movie. Again I didn’t see any one famous which was disappointing. But on my way back to the office, I was approaching one of the trailer and just when I was about two steps in front of the trailer door, it opened and Jodie Foster stepped out! She was no more than 4 feet from me and looks great just like she is on film, unlike most actors who look worse in real life. Definitely shorter than I thought, probably about 5′ 3″ or 5′ 4″ at the most.
Didn’t see Denzel or Clive though but no big loss for me 🙂
Even though I have posted a photo of the new TV, I haven’t blogged about the new A/V setup yet. Today I went to BestBuy and bought a A/V selector and a bunch of cables so I finally able to hook up all the gears (almost). So here are what I have so far:
Current A/V setup
Originally uploaded by alexhung.
Technorati Tags: DLP, HDTV, Home Theater
New office desk
Originally uploaded by alexhung.
I spent the Friday helping the office move from our Chelsea/Park Ave location to the very uptight and proper Lower Manhattan/Financial District high rise building. The floor used to be a Wachovia office so some of the decor is very much bank like. You can see in the background that I have a teller-like window on the right.
This building is right next to the building I used to work in when I was working with JP Morgan Chase. I already spotted a couple of people I knew from across the road when I left the building yesterday. I am sure I will bump into more of them next week.
One good thing that came out from helping out the move was that we swapped our old CRT monitors with nice LCD monitors (finally!).
Lost in Colonisation 