London

Woke up to the news of the terrorist attack in London. Our TV has been on BBC America constantly and the TV footage are disturbingly spooky. It is because we watched a BBC drama “Dirty War” on BBC America this weekend. Although today’s attacks do not involve radioactive material, the scenes of fire service and ambulances from the real TV footage are almost straight out from the drama. And I hope the Met is more prepared in dealing with this attack than in the drama.

Whatever that may not be achieved in the G8 Summit at Gleneagle, at least the G8 leaders are trying to do something better for the world. What do bomb explosions killing innocent people, paralysing London transport system, and disrupting G8 meeting achieve?

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Upload sucks…

I may be praising Flickr’s features in my last post but when I try to upload a relatively large set of wedding photos (100+ photos) tonight Flickr just kept hanging.

Initially I thought it was because I was using FlickrExport iPhoto plug-in so I switched to Adriaan’s 1001 Flickr client. But I got the same result where every 4 to 5 uploads the process will just hang. After searching through Flickr forum it seems that it is a known problem with Flickr upload process but with no fixes in sight, at least none that I can find.

I guess I just have to keep trying with small batch of 4 or 5 photos at a time. The only issue I have using 1001 is that the app ‘loses’ the last photo being uploaded if I interrupt the process. So if photo #3 is being uploaded and got hang and I press ‘Cancel’, 1001 will cancel the upload but also assume that photo #3 has been uploaded successfully and remove it from the set of not-yet-upload photos. Thus, the next time I press ‘Upload’, 1001 will start from photo #5 instead of #4. Haven’t taken the time to write up this bug to Adriaan yet as I am going to play the new Halo 2 maps just now 🙂

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Flickr

After another prodding from Nick, I’ve finally signed up to Flickr and see for myself what’s so great about it. Indeed, Flickr is so much better than TypePad’s Photo Album feature that I am hoping I’ve tried out Flickr earlier!

Two things that bug me about TypePad’s album are a) inability to choose which albums to show up in the sidebar, and b) no commenting feature on photos. Flickr handles those two issues in excellent style while providing even more management and community features.

So new photos will now be uploaded to Flickr while all the old photo albums are still available in the sidebar on Leah’s site.

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Go West

Being a software developer and proficient in maths means that I am pretty good at spotting patterns, or it can be the other way round. Regardless, here is a pattern in my life that I’ve spotted. It seems that the intervals between relocation for me is a geometric progression. For those who are not familiar with geometric progression or geometric series, here is what I mean:

Time living in Hong Kong ~= 15 years
Time living in U.K. ~= 10 years
Time living in East Coast America ~= soon to be 5 years

And with our plan to move to the west coast soon (probably in the next year or so) does that mean we will be finally settling down in the west coast? Probably, at least according to maths!

Time living in West Coast America = ∞!

Will our life be peaceful there in the open air where the skies are blue?

(No prize for picking up the 70’s or 90’s song reference in this post, depending on which version of the song you are thinking of)

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Urbanite vs. The Rest

I’ve been trying to write this post for awhile, partly because I am lazy but mainly because I found (and still find) it difficult to articulate my thoughts on the subject.

The more I get to know the people I work with or the friends we make here in New York, the more I find that I (and to large extent Leah as well) am very different to all of them. So what is the issue? Well, the issue is multi-facet and it boils down to the following questions:

1. City vs. Suburban/countryside
2. Apartment vs. House
3. Rent vs. Buy

As you can see, although they are all inter-related there is no single defining issue that you can pin point. So let me tackle it one by one.
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