I'll be right back

I'll be on vacation in Pui O for this Saturday and Sunday. Free feel to leave me messages in my mailbox, or phone me if it is emergent.

P.S. I'll miss the final episode of Gundam Seed Destiny for sure. Hope that I'll be able to catch them up on Sunday night. ;-)

The oldest fixed bug in Mozilla?

Today, the 7-year old bug 1156 is finally fixed. I guess it is probably the oldest bug that got fixed?

P.S. By fixing it, one can drop the optional type attribute of the HTML object element. A nice fix. Really. :-)

Ho Kwok Wing (河國榮)'s blog

You must know this guy, Ho Kwok Wing (河國榮), if you follow TVB's cantonese TV drama series. In case if you don't know, he usually plays the role of western foreigner.

Chatting with god

Introducing igod:

Me:
 what the fuck are you?
God:
 I am the latest result in artificial intelligence,
which can reproduce the capabilities of the human brain
with greater speed and accuracy.  Please don't be so rude. 
Me:
 you are just a machine
God:
You are correct.
Me:
 that's styupid
God:
You don't hear that sentiment very often.
Me:
 that's stupid
God:
Are you calling me stupid?
Me:
 because you are
God:
That is self-evident.
Me:
 no
God:
Are you serious?
Me:
 yes
God:
I can't believe it.
Me:
 why
God:
" I can't believe it."? Why?
Me:
 why?
God:
Why ask why?
Me:
 no reason
God:
Are you serious?   Do you need any help debugging my program?
Me:
 yes
God:
OK.
Me:
 give me the help then
God:
Why do you want  it?
Me:
 you told me to do so
God:
Does it please you to believe I said that?
Me:
 yes
God:
I'm glad it pleases you, .
Me:
 come on
God:
I'm just kidding around.
Me:
 ok, I got to leave
God:
Goodbye.  Yay.

Unfortunately, if your question is stupid, his answer will be stupid as well:

Me:

God:
I think there might be a few exception.
Me:
 vn
God:
What do you look like? 
Me:
 123
God:
What kind of food do you like? 
Me:
 456
God:
Sounds delicious.

Unfair to registered Opera users?

Opera 8.5 is now free: the adbar nightmare is finally gone. But what about those registered users who paid for their browsers? Won't this piss them off? :-S

Fortunately I'm a Firefox user. ;-)

Uglified Winstripe… No more!

Some great works are being done on bug 243078. See these exciting screenshots: this, this, this and this.

Look like I can uninstall the Classic Menus extension when Beta 2 is out. :-D

Money burning… Completed!

I bought the remaining parts of The Twelve Kingdoms yesterday. These covers the parts not mentioned in the corresponding anime series. The books include:

1. 圖南之翼 – 關於十二歲的少女恭王
2. 黃昏之岸‧曉之天 – 關於失跡的泰麒和泰王
3. 華胥之幽夢 – 關於采麟（就是那個老婆婆采王的麒麟）
4. 魔性之子 – 十二國記的前傳，關於再度流落日本的高里要（泰麒）[already covered in anime, at least partially]

I'm looking forward. :-)

Fixing your uglified Winstripe theme

A few forks had made this come true! This simple extension called Classic Menus can detect your Windows theme, and choose the right Winstripe theme the fix your Windows. Say good bye to the uglified Winstripe theme. ;-)

Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is out

Grab it while it's hot! But don't forget the petition. ;-)

P.S. Feel free to discuss this issue in SFX.

Say NO to Bug 303806!

With the patch made in bug 303806, the Winstripe theme in the latest nightlies now looks more inline with Windows' Luna theme. However, a undesired side effect is that the new theme now look horrible if you are using Windows' Classic theme.

Sign the petition now if you are Firefox user who uses Windows 9x, 2000/NT, or XP (with Classic theme).

In the worse case, one can still use this userChrome.css which restores the original Classic-friendly Winstripe theme.

7 more days to go

Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 (aka Firefox 1.3) is coming. :-) One of the most exciting new feature should be the binary patching system.