Posts by Tony Siu
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The video about Tiger Woods is posted from a Taiwan-based newspaper called Apple Daily, and let's just say the paper's content is two pulps away for being a member of the yellow press. On any given day, it will be hard to miss Apple Daily's headlines-grabing "news" of large pictures of ordinary folk's crime and delinquency, and if it has blood then so be that's day front page photo spread. Daily, which got its start from Hong Kong loves to graphically illustrate "news" in computer-generated graphics in a step-by-step recreation format; it illustrate everything from celebrities' love-triangles, politicians' drama and ordinary folks suicides/car crashes and other tragic 'people's stories'.
And speaking of Tiger-gate (can we call that now?), here another video from Olbermann.
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Normal is overrated btw.
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The level of public debate in this country should be raise to something about other than C-graded celebrity "news". The Herald can shove their bloated and fluffy news filed by incompetent junior reporters agenda up their ass. We should be talking about why is Rodney Hide tearing and ramming through half-baked legislation into the SuperCity without much thought (A couple of soundbites does not cut it). We should be talking about why the reform of the RMA have an environmental, social and economical dimensions that a simple reform alone does not simply "fixed" the current status quo. We should be talking about the legacy of the National government, now that the first year honeymoon is over, is their policy is a complete re-hash from a previous century and it does not work in the current economic client. We should be talking about the abuses suffered by our young children today instead of framing the incident as victim-blaming, placing pretty pictures of the child and soft-balling questions to the parents does not help anyone here. We should be talking about the coming storm of the corporation of our farming communities. We should be talking about how the Labour government failed to retain their core Middle-Class conservative voters at the last election and let other sideshows overrun their campaign.
And while I'm it, can we please get rid of that horrible woman who writes the Saturday interview on the back-page of the Herald because there are people out can form sentence structures better than her.
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Thanks. I felt like this is an unofficial help forum for us switchers. I found that everything is better on a Mac, even third-party hacking software to get music from my iPod back to the computer is better and oh-so elegant!
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Finally, am I one of the cool kids now that I installed and migrate most of my stuff to the new Mac (support for my Nokia 6300. Woah!)! I just need to re-learn the shortcuts and (not) missing Outlook, Mail is slightly fuzzy in terms of menu layout for me. The only thing I missed from my windows is OneNote and Notepad++. Does anyone know is there a good notes taking, PHP/Javascript editor and RSS reader?
Next step, Windows 7 with Boot Camp: http://www.macworld.com/article/143446/2009/10/windows7_bootcamp.html
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Quietly putting my hand up...
Running Snow Leopard on a MacBook Pro right now. Everything is going swimmingly. Re-learning shortcuts as I go. Yes, I was the one 4 months ago going on about Snow Leopard as a service pack. Guilty.
Now, how on earth to I import an opml file into Mail so I can read my feeds? -
@Ben Austin - Right now the mashup is in beta. There is a limitation in the twitter API of geocoding the location of the end-user's tweets based on their location in their profile. So when the MP put down "Auckland" as a location in their profile, it is mapped in Auckland on the map. Precise geocoded of the end-user tweets in real-time was only added in pre-beta form within the last month or so. This wasn't implemented in time when I was going through the documentation.
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Speaking of twitter coming of age into the mainstream media, I've done a mashup of combining tweets of NZ MPs onto a Google Map for a geography class 773 at UoA.
This site is 3 weeks worth of work using PHP and Javascripts. It uses publicly available APIs and forward-facing tweets of all the current sitting MPs from National, Labour and the Greens.
The web site, for some reason, only works with Internet Explorer (v6 RTM and v7 SP# tested on XP SP3, will test v8 tomorrow). For some reason, Firefox doesn't like the website and it won't load. Please have a look around.
I look forward to your comments and suggestion
Tony
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It's hard to argue with people like O'Reilly/Beck.