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Happy 2008 !

2007 is a super busy but not very fruitful year for me, 2008 should be much better.

Wish everyone a prosperous and happy 2008 !

Finally decided, Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000

Bought it today, around US$50.

The keys on my old one were not smooth already, have put my hand on a Logitech cordless wave keyboard but I still feel that the Natural is better for me.

Microsoft’s “Natural” Keyboard, and PS2 mouse

Have been finding a replacement of my Natural Multimedia Keyboard for a while but not much choices at the moment.

I’ve been using the “Natural” series for many years (since the first Natural Keyboard), but the latest offerings (e.g. Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000, or the somewhat alike Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000) are USB only and PS2 connection was dropped.

The only one that is PS2 on MS site is the very old Natural Keyboard Elite (used it before) but it’s no longer available in my country.

Looks like I have to settle with USB and I had only one choice for a Natural Keyboard, or I have to settle with the curved ones like Comfort Curve Keyboard or the coming Logitech Wave Keyboard (not the cordless one).

Finding a good PS2 mouse is similar, all the current good ones are USB only.

It is too bad for someone who still want to stick with the PS2 interface.

Completed the set of Legend of Zelda : Twilight Princess capsules

But my daughter lost the sword of the princess, heh !

The last of my Homgplug power line network node has failed

I have bought a total of 5 Aztech Homeplug nodes (14Mbps x 3 + 85Mbps x 2) + a Tactio power line network IP sharer, and today, the last of the 5 nodes has failed.

Not sure if this is a problem with power line network device, Aztech’s quality issue or I am just bad luck to encounter a 100% failure rate. What the hell !

Decided to keep minimal content only

Only the ones that are focused will be kept, and video files will keep decreasing until they are gone. Not sure when but they will keep decreasing.

The servers are going to for some other purposes later on. I hope you enjoy while it lasts. And BTW, the blog is unaffected.

2 WATC one coin figures

Picked up 2 of the 7 one coin figures of Wanda to Kyozou (Shadow of the Colossus), one of them is the secret one “Mono”

The other one is the 16th Colossus

Pretty fine stuffs !

Kung Hei fat Choi

To those who are Chinese or knows about Chinese, 恭喜發財 !

A good friend of mine recently sent me an unexpected gift, a Playstation 3, which turned me into a next gen console owner, thank you, Chris ! You surprised me.

Next gen consoles

I don’t have a PS3, but I have bought a copy of Japanese VF5 and played it on my friend’s PS3 (at 720p), I think it is nothing spectacular (in terms of graphics), don’t know much about the improvement on the gameplay for sure. The other one that I had tried is the downloadable GTHD, it is very nice, but not enough to persuade me to buy a system yet.

It is even worse for X360, not many titles have got me interested, may be Blue Dragon, but the game doesn’t seem to be interesting enough after watching my kid played it a while at a demo booth.

Guess I’ll wait a bit longer until there are games that worth buying a system.

FreeBSD 6.2 is released

Read from freebsd.org that 6.2 is now available. FreeBSD has been choice of server OS since 1998 and it works reliably on my servers for many years.

This server is still running an older version and I won’t upgrade it until I have more free time. I suppose my other server be upgraded very soon since it is running an even older version of FreeBSD.




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