Concentration Diversion

Test

I am flying to Inner Mongolia tomorrow on an archaeology field trip, so I need to test this out to make sure that it works before I leave. I wanna to somehow blog my trip as best as I could.

District Council Election 2007

In my constituency the result was very close: 1588 vs 1695, the existing council member beat the challenger (who is very fresh) by merely 107 votes.

As far as I am concerned, these council members ain’t leaders of the community. They are the voters’ Man Friday and if necessary, rottweiler, and nothing more.

Bierfest 2007

was a lot of fun!

Posting from Tumblet under OS X Dashboard.

Problem w/ FreeBSD Clock Slew under VMWare Server

I got FreeBSD running under VMWare Server on my X40. The only problem is, the clock was all over the place, and openntpd didn’t help a bit (it relies on a fairly consistent clock).

The problem is fairly well-understood, just google for “freebsd clock vmware”. The VMWare Utility and the config line didn’t help me, as the clock was running slow by around a few seconds every minute. So I setup a cron job and use ntpdate to query the Hong Kong Observatory’s (my favourite HKSAR Govt Dept!) atomic clock server stdtime.gov.hk every 15 minutes. I think I should install an NTP server on the X40 and get the VM to sync from there every 5 minutes, so that it would work whether I have network access or not.

New Stuff from Apple

Despite the updated Apple MacBooks in the U.S., in Hong Kong they are still selling the old pre-Santa Rosa ones.

OS X Leopard appears to be available. As good as it is, and I’ll eventually put it on my iMac, this is not so pressing for the time being. Which reminds me, I should probably go check out the price for that 1GB RAM module for my iMac to bring it to 2GB.

Dawn of a New Blog!

This is looking good.