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  olive-ma

  Thursday, Jul 30, 2009 2:14PM [Report]

  how are you getting on with your iphone so far?  I'm going have one, maybe next year.
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   stunti

  Thursday, Jul 30, 2009 12:04PM [Report]

  Depends what you like.
  I have 7 pages of apps. most important for me are Facebook, Twittie (paid), google, HK weather, nimbuzz, ign, newsstand (paid), HK movie, AP mobile, Bloomberg
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   Marie Jost

  Thursday, Jul 9, 2009 6:41PM [Report]

  Thanks for the ref to the James Wong interview show with Leslie.  This show was so famous that it was issued on DVD a number of years ago.  I don't have the original DVD, but a Leslie fan ripped me a copy and so I have it.  I don't understand Cantonese well enough to follow, but someone did a sort of translated transcript (though it is incomplete).  It is fun to watch Leslie being so relaxed in an interview.  There are two other interviews with Leslie that are also legendary from HK TV--one where he appeared with Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Kar-Fai from the mid-90s, and one of his last extended interviews, with Teresa Mo.  The Teresa Mo interview is especially interesting because he discusses aspects of his private life that he was never did before.  Teresa was a very close and long-time friend (Leslie had even asked her to marry him back when they were both very young!) and so he opened up with her in a way he didn't with anyone else on TV.  Again, I have only read transcripts of parts of the interview, but it is definitely worth finding on You Tube.  You get a glimpse of Leslie ca. 2001-02 (not sure of exact date) that is surprisingly intimate.
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  fwei

  Sunday, Jun 28, 2009 3:46PM [Report]

  一切祝福仅在不言中，
  加油啦！
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  enigma306

  Tuesday, Jun 9, 2009 6:27AM [Report]

  It's really sad especially when you know all the information is right there in your hand and you can't access it.  Maddening.
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   elle75

  Tuesday, Jun 2, 2009 12:58AM [Report]

  Kenji, you're welcome (eventhough I haven't done anything helpful yet). I think I can visualize what your set up is like. I don't want to give you false hope but there's a good possibility that your IDE or SCSI cable inside failed, not the hard drive itself. Seagate is a really good hard drive brand, top couple really popular one right now on the market. I used to work for Seagate as the matter of fact. I'm moving over to software side for awhile and a bit rusty but if you have some time, I can actually come up with a few "diagnostic" test suggestions you can try first. Sometime the failure is actually the obvious...hopefully :-)
  Unfortunately, hardware fail eventually even the expensive enterprise storage so don't panic K!!! The data is always going to be there unless you somehow overwrite it with new data or 'demagnetize' hard drive which is the process that big company use to destroy secure data. Anyhow, you must be really frustrated right now and it's time consuming and I hope you feel a bit better now.
  -elle
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  peachey

  Monday, Jun 1, 2009 11:00PM [Report]

  Did you solve the external HD problem? I know what you mean about DVD and CD media being too small to accommodate large files. Gosh, I remember when tape backup devices were the way to store files.
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   Marie Jost

  Sunday, May 31, 2009 8:35AM [Report]

  That woman telling me that "everyone speaks Mandarin" in HK lived there for 4 months last year.  Her husband was there lecturing at one of the universities and she was along for the trip.  I don't know what area they were living in, probably wherever the university put them up, given the shortness of their stay.  The woman said Cantonese was too hard for her to learn.  It is funny that this seems to be the attitude of most Mandarin speakers, like Cantonese is impossible to speak or understand.  Maybe it is easier for foreigners to learn Cantonese than Mandarin speakers because we don't speak any tonal language and can be taught to hear all of the tones in Canto and reproduce them with a lot of practice.  Maybe Mandarin speakers are tripped up when they use their "Mandarin ears" to listen to Cantonese since the tones are not the same.  I'm glad to hear that native-born Hong Kongers still speak Cantonese and haven't given up on it.  There is a plan afoot to create some media company to produce Cantonese-language films not only for HK, but also for the Cantonese speaking Pearl River Valley.  They would be a HK-Mainland co-productions and hence skirt the quotas and also make government money available.  I hope it happens.  Cantonese is such an expressive spoken language it would be a shame if it was lost as a language of film and was reserved for only daily conversation and home use.
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  enigma306

  Friday, May 29, 2009 6:46AM [Report]

  You know I figured that out last night.  I was watching a Taiwanese drama that had canto subs on it.  The English subber was actually translating the canto subs.  At one point she got a little loss and put a note on the file and ended it with lah.  I thought either this is the same girl or that's just something they use (possibly overuse) at the end of sentences.  Thank you for confirming that for me.
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   Marie Jost

  Friday, May 29, 2009 6:37AM [Report]

  Man, if we don't have the foreigners to keep up English composition standards, who is going to do it?  It certainly won't be Gen TM (text messaging) here in the States!  I have the hardest time following some Gen TM blogs here on AnD, they are so filled with TM abbreviations and jargon.  It is funny, when I chat with my friends on Facebook, we actually write out the sentences, include punctuation, capitalization, etc.  We really are a bunch of old fogies!  We are also 50 or older.  But as a writer, I wouldn't have it any other way.
  
  About Mandarin in HK:  I have met all of these people who have been to HK, but aren't native born, who keep telling me the only language I need to learn is Mandarin, that everyone speaks Mandarin and no one speaks Cantonese in HK anymore.  I was even told that if I spoke Cantonese and not Mandarin, none of the sales clerks would be able to understand me, that they all spoke only Mandarin!  Of course, this was said by someone from Taiwan who, by the standards of the Mainland, doesn't even speak proper Mandarin anyway. :-)
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  cutee87

  Friday, May 29, 2009 12:44AM [Report]

  Yeah I can understand that. It really is sad though when you really care for someone and wish them the best..but you are not sure if that is reciprocated.
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   Kongo Rikishi (Esan Shi)

  Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:01AM [Report]

  Okay sure just let me know if I can be useful.
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  slink

  Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:32AM [Report]

  Hey Kenji ~ How you going?
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   Marie Jost

  Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:03AM [Report]

  I understand what you're saying.  I've been there many times myself.  That is when you feel like you're the last person on earth.  It also always happens to be a day when I'm not feeling especially hermit-like and really want to connect with other people.  It is like a great cosmic joke, only it never seems very funny at the time.
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  enigma306

  Wednesday, May 27, 2009 4:33AM [Report]

  I never get that.  Go to firefoxes site and add the ABP (adblock pro I think).  I have a stop sign with ABP next to my search box.  See if it helps with this and other sites.
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  peachey

  Tuesday, May 26, 2009 6:26AM [Report]

  Eek, maybe I do spend "more" time on AnD than you. But look! You get the attention of the Admins by posting that "issue" whereas they tend to ignore the problems/suggestions posted in their own forum, which is where I'd raised similar user issues lately. Thanks for bringing it up. I get the feeling their resources are directed at other, more important activities than what's bugging the users. Finally, I'd like to say that you aren't ignored on AnD.
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   Marie Jost

  Monday, May 25, 2009 8:45AM [Report]

  And yet we still want people to share our creativity with.  That, I think, is where the loneliness comes in.  Also, you can get a lot of energy from sharing yourself with like-minded people,.  So it is a double-edged sword--you need solitude to be creative--but you also need the energy you get from interacting with other people.  I guess it is a balancing act and some days one end of the scale predominates over the other.  Then we feel things and start to have an opinion about what those feelings mean....
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   rottendoubt

  Monday, May 25, 2009 7:27AM [Report]

  hmm ok forwarded it to the techs.  do you have zonealarm installed?
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   rottendoubt

  Monday, May 25, 2009 7:03AM [Report]

  do you get the ad when you visit any other sites?  it still sounds like spamware.
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  jacishere

  Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:26AM [Report]

  Thanks for stopping by =)

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