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{ Monthly Archives } February 2009

Buying Dictionaries in Hong Kong

My son is learn­ing Man­darin, so when I went to Hong Kong recently, I asked what I should bring back. His teacher sug­ges­ted a Man­darin dic­tion­ary; it soun­ded like a good idea to me. Find­ing one to buy ended up being more of an odys­sey than I expec­ted though. The hotel had an English-language Yellow […]

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2009 02 24 Travel Comments (1)

Domain Registrars?

I’m think­ing of regis­ter­ing a couple of domains. GoDaddy annoyed me with their lame Super­bowl ads, and their regis­tra­tion sys­tem is equally annoy­ing (far too many screens, all with options I have com­pletely zero interest in). Does any­one have recom­mend­a­tions for good basic regis­trars? What I want is basic .com|.org|.net, as well as .ca (separate […]

2009 02 23 Technology Comments (16)

Northern Voice 2009

I’m slowly recov­er­ing from the whirl­wind that was North­ern Voice this year (I’m one of the organ­isers). All our hard work paid off, we had the usual last-minute glitches but every­one seemed to enjoy them­selves, to make new friends and con­tacts, to learn new things, to dis­cuss issues they care about, and to have fun. On […]

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2009 02 22 Conference
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Hong Kong Impressions

Tim had a busi­ness trip to Hong Kong, and since I’m cur­rently under­em­ployed, I thought I’d tag along. It was only for a couple of days, which is a shame given how much there is to and see in Hong Kong. It was also my first trip. First impres­sions are that Hong Kong is clean and […]

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2009 02 17 Travel Comments (2)

OpenSolaris Hostname on DHCP

By default, OpenSol­aris doesn’t broad­cast the host­name on the local net­work, just the IP address. To rec­tify this, find out what net­work inter­face you have (often nge0) by run­ning ifcon­fig –a. It’ll be the one with the IP address given by the router (i.e., not 127.0.0.1). Then, as root, edit the file /etc/default/dhcpagent. Find the […]

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2009 02 17 Technology Comments (0)

Victorian Bushfires

Aus­trali­ans learned so much from the Ash Wed­nes­day bush­fires (I was liv­ing in Mel­bourne at the time and still visit as often as I can); there was a sense that although every­one knew bush­fires are capri­cious and dan­ger­ous, that there were things to do to mit­ig­ate them. That all changed this week. The com­bin­a­tion of years […]

2009 02 10 General Comments (2)