X marks the spot

"In a true moment of revelation, Brian Maloney redefines the foundations of geometry"

I wish logic was always this rewarding! Bring me back my Finals...

widescreen

I use a measly outdated dual-flat screen at work. This has to be upgraded NOW thanks to Dwaino! :o) Link

Fidi fidi FireFox

There's a lot of things I like about Firefox.

• Standards compliant
• Tabbed browsing
• Funky skins
• LiveMarks
• Extensions
• 'firesomething' has to rock. I'm currently on 'Mozilla Turbocheetah'
  

The list goes on...

But I must admit I have a real issue with memory leaks (not I won't go into the details, except to say that there's a bug in the FireFox code that eats up all your memory and won't give it back until you've shut down every 'flippin' last tab :o) Now that won't bother most people, but when, like me, your work involves at least 20 tabs all open at once then it can get rather painstaking having to shut them all down.

A mate of mine pointed out this site Mooz which is a set of Firefox's specifically compiled for your processor. In non-geek speak, that means you can get a version of Firefox that speaks the very dialect your processor was born and bred on. This makes it much faster, and ... with a bit of luck... hopefully more efficient with memory.

I've just installed it so its time to see what happens...

p.s. 'Fidi fidi' is the romanisation of a Cantonese phrase 'faster faster'

Safe?

Am currently reading through the Chronicles of Narnia in preparation for the movie coming out in December. Here's my favourite quote so far...

"Safe?" said Mrs Beaver; "don't you hear what Mr Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you."

check out the movie site

Bad day in the office

Man... I thought I had a bad day in the office. But no matter how bad, this kinda puts it all into perspective.

Paul's Hardships

We put no stumbling block in anyone's path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; in purity, understanding, patience and kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left; through glory and dishonor, bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors; known, yet regarded as unknown; dying, and yet we live on; beaten, and yet not killed; sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

2 Corinthians 6

Difficult miracles

From a friend -

"Difficulty is the very atmosphere of miracle--it is miracle in its first stage. If it is to be a great miracle, the condition is not difficulty but impossibility."

Getting around Hong Kong

This post is actually so I don't forget how to get around Hong Kong - http://www.ypmap.com

Hope it helps!

hoops and yoyo

I've been going through a phase of sending e-cards to all my friends for their birthdays (really useful when you live in Hong Kong and they're in the UK). One of my favourite spots is Hoops and Yoyo from Hallmark

So was really excited when my birthday came around and a friend from uni sent through Hoops and Yoyo - very impressed ;o)

Lost and Found

Have you ever had that experience when you created a website, totally forgot about it and then a friend discovers it and emails it to you several years later? ... no i didn't think so!

I had completely forgotten about this, from back in 2003, am amazed its mostly all still there.

http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/steveyken

Freaky or what!

Where have you been?

A friend just showed me this cool site World66 where you can list all the countries that you've been too or have lived in. If you're like me and love charting the globe, you'll love this site. This sums up my last 5 years travel and work...



create your own visited country map
or write about it on the open travel guide