So Sherry was able to get signals on her VZW Sammy A670 in Taipei, and she received calls just fine with caller ID. I checked VZW’s site and found this page. 69 cents a minute, not bad at all! I also found their Taiwan coverage information.
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Apple just emailed me about some videos to help Apple developers transition to X86… I guess they are coming in Jan 2006! WOHO!
I can’t stand the messed up color profile on my work ThinkPad, so I looked up how I can set it to Adobe RGB… this is kindda a pain: Microsoft Windows XP – Install a color profile, while this is more promising, but the download is unavailable at the moment…
Most portable devices (including Sony?s PSP) use Wi-Fi for collaborative gaming among players scattered all over the world. Nintendogs takes a more intimate approach to wireless networking, thanks to a feature called ?bark mode? that alerts DS owners when another Nintendogs player is nearby. Players can then introduce themselves to one another while their virtual pets frolic together onscreen.
Business 2.0 :: Magazine Article :: What Works :: How Nintendo Took a Bite out of Sony
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Picked up a couple of shirts from Café Coton on Grant Ave in SF, great place for shirts. Their 100-thread-count shirts are silky smooth, while you can still machine-wash them. Now they’re doing a buy 1 get 1 half off promotion. I am going back there this weekend to exchange one of the shirts coz it turned out to be too shinny.
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Sherry and I were at Union Square last night. There was a huge Christmas tree there, it’s Macy’s gift to the city. There were musical performances of Christmas songs on the stage and lyrics were passed out to passers-by. It reminded me of my days in choir; the holiday concert at noon on the last day of class is Carnegie Mellon tradition. I was in Dr. Page‘s choir for 2 years and it was fun. I remember I was usually in the middle of finishing an ECE project (or 3 of them) and had to take a break, put on my tux, and hurry for that concert. I couldn’t afford the time for choir in my last 2 years when I started taking graduate level courses, it was a shame. I still managed to do piano studios and other music courses to fulfill my requirements for my music minor, but those classes were pretty easy and not all that time-consuming.
A lot of voice majors hated Dr. Page, because he always demands the best from us, and if you major in voice you’d better take his classes seriously or he could get mean. He was always kind to me though.
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Went to SF and took some pics of Jen and Jonas, he wanted some face shots for MTV Azn VJ audition. Jonas was actually the first guy I took pictures for. I haven’t had time to post-processed the pics, but here are a few I’ve done so far:
After we got home I had a quick shoot with Sherry, only pp’ed one so far:
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… two (!) dedicated iPod connection terminals provide “full iPod (3G and above) integration and control.” Not sure if that mean you can control your players via the remote but it sure sounds that way, eh? Oh, and besides all this geekery, you get all the high-end processing you’d expect from Denon including HDMI in/outs with 1080i upscaling, the latest DSPs and codecs, 7 x 130 watts-o-power, and independent audio & video processing capability to setup a 3-room multi-source/multi-zone home entertainment system. Yours for about $2,000.
CoffeeGeek – Reaching Espresso Nirvana
This a truly great article by Mark Prince on the evolution of espresso machines and grinders, and coffee itself. He also talked about how water quality is equally important and that we don’t fully understand the perfect way to obtain and/or filter it for the perfect shot… His prediction on the how next wave of grinders will be like:
The concept is simple, really. A machine that separates the motor area from the grinding area. Vertical, new concept designed burrs. A delivery mechanism for the whole beans to the grinding area. And a straight fall through path for the ground coffee.
I think I’m gonna PID my Silvia instead of upgrading to a machine with dual boilers or a heat exchanger (HX). I pull mostly triple ristretto with my bottomless portafilter.