Gadgets I have bought recently

I have bought a few gadgets recently. Some that I really need, and some... um... it's good to have them.

1. Apple Mighty Mouse $438

I bought the mighty mouse when there was a sale in the online Apple Store last month. It is a Bluetooth mouse with laser as tracking device. Noticeably it has a scroll ball on the top so you can do 360 degrees scrolling. I have to admit it is a bit too expensive but I have to say it would work with my future Mac laptop like a charm. Besides the side button that I could hardly squeeze to activate, it's rather good. Photos

2. Logitech UltraX Keyboard $180

Also a slightly expensive keyboard compared to other non-cordless keyboards. It is a laptop thin keyboard and the touch on it has been excellent. There are no cheap plastic that act as spring to the keys. I don't know how the mechanism is because I don'r dare to remove one of the key caps and take a look - I can only peek at them, otherwise fearing the key caps can not be replaced. The only drawbacks is it works on the legacy PS2 adapter. It has standard 104-key and some multimedia keys at the far right corner that I can ignore.

3. Kingston 1G Memory ~$550

This is for my Mac Mini. My Mac used to have 512M memory and it was running rather slowly and (beware: technical-speak) need to swap data from hard drive to memory and vice versa frequently. It has been running extremely smoothly ever since I upgraded the memory (or it is running in a speed I can bare with). Now the urge of buying a new laptop has go away, but you know, it's always good to have a new computer :)

4. Stardom RAID External Backup $3200

To some, it is too much. For me, the risk of losing data is just too high (or I considered it to be too high). It is a 2x320G hard drive arranged in a mirroring mode - that is there is only 320G of hard disk space. Once I copied files into it, I can forget about backing up to secondary media without so much fear of losing the data. I still plan to back up files annually to DVDs, or at a later time I might bought one more hard drive for off-site backup.

5. Flickr $200/year

This is not gadgets actually. It is a service that I subscribed to host photos. I dropped the idea of hosting my own photos because it just take too much of my time and there is just no good photos organising software that is comparable to Flickr. You should take a look at my photostream and I plan to update it rather frequently (to supplement my lack of update in this blog :). I am also planning to tag and upload photos I took before, esp. the photos I took when I was travelling in Europe / California. By the way, some photos can only be viewed by my friends, so log in Flickr with your Yahoo! account and tell me, I'll do the rest.

元朗人士

琴日經過銅鑼灣，並且在菠蘿嘅協助之下入咗一間髮型屋剪頭髮，位置大概係 St. Paul Convent 的附近，旁邊有一間好舊好舊的飽店，十足十《店鋪》上環果啲海味鋪咁。間飛髮鋪就好正常。入去，頹講自己想剪成點，講完，剪完，98 元。我主要想講嘅係，個哥哥幫我剪髮嘅時候問我係咪住喺附近。同佢講左幾句，之後足足開心咗一個鐘。

夜晚未食飯就返咗元朗去睇彩兒做 SM 嘅小劇，大概，小劇一係講三角戀啦，係一套好慢好慢的劇目，而且只有演員講嘢同行黎行去，都幾難頂（主要係肚餓的關係）。我覺得套劇除咗慢之外，係畀咗好多時間我諗其實佢地係乜野關係，因為套劇由頭到尾我諗咗好多個唔同嘅可能性。究竟係兩個男爭女定係個女同個男爭呢？或者個女仔到最後先講野俾多咗時間我諗其他嘅可能、又或者，我仲係太掛住《盛夏光年》啲情節，哈哈！

最近經常諗起喺咪應該搬出去住，如果搬咗出去，就更加同屋企人疏遠。究竟其實去到我哋呢個年紀，同屋企人嘅關係應該係點嘅呢？生離死別係諗得太早定係愛得太遲？如果唔似得以前咁每個禮拜可以一齊去飲茶，咁究竟應該由得佢係咁發展落去定係點呢？究竟搬出去住，係叫做擁抱自己的生活定係離屋企人而去？睇黎未睇得化之前都幾難搬得走。小戲二唔係講身離死別，呢啲只係聯想出黎。

初生劇團，一個元朗的小劇團，成員都係後生細仔。

每次睇完啲朋友做嘅劇就會覺得，如果可以幫手玩吓就好了，因為我覺得，做一啲唔同嘅嘢有助我變得無咁灰。

晚上食元朗特色炒冰，得閒入黎元朗試下啦各位。

搞搞新意思

網誌很久也沒有更新了。新年新氣像，來一個翻天覆地的版面改動。

這個改動兩三個月前開始計劃了，但就只是腦袋裡亂轉的陀螺。想做的事也很多，但就沒有定下來做實作的時間。光說不做一向是本人的強項。

版面的擺放方法與開始計劃的時候的想法相似。主要就是擺脫經常出現的兩欄設計：一面放主要的網頁內容，另一面放一些無關痛癢的事例如相片、連結等。這就好像要同一時間同一張口要說兩篇話。現在的版面將最無關痛癢（但又經常更新）的資料置頂，接著是主要內容（在這個網誌，其實是較少更新的內容，未來想信也很少更新，哈！），最後來到很少很少更新的內容放至最底。另外，也希望回應某些朋友說某些資料很難被人看到的意見。很多事情你親眼目擊，但是…你真的看到嗎？

反而設計（又或顏色分配）就在轉圈。原先打算由零開始，後來發現效果不佳，反而沿用以往的設計作藍本發展更好。我可以想本質沒有變，只是外表有點不同吧。

改變會繼續。

註：如果有任何意見歡迎提出，不竟來讀網誌的還是你。

我要買碟

本月我想買的CD/DVD包括有：

1. 何韻詩《HOCC Live In Unity 2006》演唱會 DVD （完成！ = $148）
2. 林一峰《思生活》CD（完成！ = $109）
3. 《盛夏光年》DVD（完成！ = $128）
4. 《盛夏光年》CD

要用五百幾蚊啦我估。