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Digsby…

Fung — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:58:09 +0000

I’ve been trying out a new IM client that wants to be more than just IM, Digsby.

I’ve stopped using it because for some reason it won’t connect to Yahoo! IM. grrr..

Snake in a Vest!

Fung — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:52:25 +0000

Some friends of mine are putting together a podcast. It’s got some of their music mood of the moment, hate/love of the week, and some generally goofy, funny shit.

*caution: Explicit content. So if you’re a weenie, don’t listen.

Check ‘em out at:

Snake in a Vest

I had a little bit of a hard time with the pop up window for some reason, so I’ve downloaded the podcast below.

Right click to download the podcast: SIAV Vol1

Mac and me…

Fung — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:25:45 +0000

I’ve spent a better part of a week attempting switch from my work IBM laptop to a MacBook Pro (MBP). I would prefer to stay with my solid and trusty T60 but what I want to do and whom I want to work with is decidedly a Mac world. At least at the moment. But also it gives me the chance to tinker inside the Macs considering

Thankfully with Fusion, from the VMware guys, I can still use Win XP Pro. In fact some people I’ve heard, who’ve made the “switch”, are using almost exclusively, XP on their MBPs. Well, I’ll try to avoid that trap. not sure how successful I will be though.

This thing gets feaking hot. I mean hot! This isn’t really a laptop, more of a desktop replacement device. Which kinda sucks cause I’d like to use it like I do my IBM/Lenovo R61i; on my lap, in the park or at a coffee shop on the couch.

The keyboard is okay. The feedback of the keys is little if not there at all. It’s like hitting chiclets on a foam pad.It does an alright job, though I can tell why people get carpel tunnel using this.

I think the touch pad may be my biggest issue. It’s nice that you can do multi-touch but the sensitivity range from hyper to none during a scrolling sessions and mousing and clicking.

More later…

UPDATE: When you’re in a webpage on a MacBook Pro (Safari or Firefox) and you have to fill out fields, how come it doesn’t select a button when you tab down??

PS UPDATE: So, in the Universal Access, under System Preferences you can click on Keyboard Shortcuts and then click on the “Open Keyboard Preferences…” and change the radio button “Text boxes and lists only” to “All controls” and this will allow you to tab into things like pull down menus and buttons.

Mandigo Theme…

Fung — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:47:00 +0000

So, I’m back to the Mandigo theme created by tom. They added a nifty little expand and contract widgets/icons/doodads in the upper right hand corner. It’s kinda nifty and I’m not sure if it’s actually useful or not but, I believe it’s mainly for the readers benefit.

Calendaring…

Fung — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:17:16 +0000

I need to find a better calendar for Wordpress.

new webhost, pseudo new website…

Fung — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:53:12 +0000

So, I switched out my webhosting from AT&T webhosting to A+ webhosting. Getting my wordpress up was a bit of a pain mainly because I kept screwing up the install. A+ tech support was actually quite helpful getting me up and running.

Then wordpress did an interesting thing where, no matter what you do it would switch the themes back to the default. Change theme folder to default and everything was hunky-dory.

So, I’m back in business. New webhost, new site and new aspirations for front end engineering.