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It’s been a couple weeks since my last entry. Was in AMiA 10th anniversary Winter Conference last week which is awesome and quite refreshing.

Catching up with the happenings around blogsphere, my first question is this:

Is it just me, or is the iPad a bigger version of the iPhone (minus the phone part)?

Am I the only one that is completely NOT sold as to why we need an iPad at all?

Anyone?

As many of you may know, I have a wishlist at Amazon.com. In the past, I have received items from that list sent by a few gracious friends and family members. I also received amazon.com gift certificates as gifts and honorarium.

But a recent event made me ponder if there is any alternative. My last order of books were charged over $30USD just for shipping! (I cancel the entire shipment at the end) This is really ridiculous as I can get most of the items with free shipping through Amazon.ca or chapters.indigo.ca!

The only problem is that some items that amazon.com has, the Canadian stores just don’t carry.

I tried to look for ways to export the amazon.com wishlist to their Canadian counterpart, but I don’t think there is one. So here is what I think:

1. If for any reason, you would like to sent me a gift certificate to buy books online. Send me one from amazon.ca or chapters.indigo.ca. I don’t want to waste your generosity on some crazy shipping cost!
2. If you know any open-platform wishlist site that allow people to link items to specific web-stores, please let me know. Specifically, I am looking for one that allow people to view my wishlist without creating an account or logging in.

因為剛剛講關於OV的聯想問題，友人Andy告之Yahoo!的奇摩輸入法。果然好掂！

本來Yahoo!的奇摩輸入法並沒有廣東話輸入，但因支援外掛，而用的是OV的.cin格式，所以要加上廣東話輸入並不難。以下是我在mac osx 的安裝過程：

1. 下載並安裝Yahoo!的奇摩輸入法（mac 版）
2. 從電腦中找出你的OV粵語輸入擋案（我的叫 canton.cin）
3. 打開該文字擋，刪除”%encoding UTF-8″ 這一行，另存到desktop（或其他你記得的地方）
4. 開啟 Terminal ，cd 到你剛才存擋的地方
5. 在Terminal，輸入以下指令：/Library/Input\ Methods/Yahoo\!\ KeyKey.app/Contents/SharedSupport/CinInstaller.app/Contents/MacOS/CinInstaller your_canton_input.cin
6. 檢查奇摩輸入法有否多了新增的粵語輸入，若有，就可以CTRL-C 在 Terminal 的process

令奇摩輸入更像南極星的本來設定：

1. 在奇摩輸入法下，選擇Preferences…，再選Generic 的切定。在Compose at each keystroke 旁，打上剔號。

2. 在奇摩輸入法下，選擇Associated Phrase，加入聯想功能。

從南極星轉到openvanilla，最不方便的就是沒有聯想功能。

上網尋索，才發現原來lukhnos 早已開發了聯想詞功能的alpha版。雖說為Tiger跟Leopard版的OV，但在Snow Leopard安上，so far so good。

Ever since I switch to macbook, I have this occasional problem — When I am typing a email, or a word document or something — when I am typing, sometimes my cursor will move all of a sudden to a completely different line and place, I have absolutely no idea why this is happening.

It does not matter if I am using Thunderbird, MS Word or other programs. And it does not matter I am typing English or inputting Chinese through openVanilla or other input methods. And it does not matter I am using the macbook keyboard or my bluetooth keyboard…

Anyone has any idea why?

[This happened also when I was typing this email! The blinking cusor all of a sudden move 3-4 lines up (and in the middle of a word) when I was typing...]

Did I hit a shortcut key or something by accident, you think?

If you happen to be using the new Snow Leopard (10.6) and OpenVanilla to input non-English characters, you might encounter a problem when you are at the login screen under OpenVanilla mode — you can’t type anything and you can’t switch to English input mode either. What do you do?

For the time being, there is no fix yet. But bear in mind that you can enter your password with the Caps Lock key on.

St John’s Nottingham has a youtube channel featuring world-class biblical scholars like Bauckham, Thiselton, Dunn, Wright, Hurtado, Stanton, Burridge and others, talking about Ricoeur, the kingdom of God, the divinity of Jesus, the Gospels and eyewitnesses, the Gospel of John…

Enjoy!

[HT: Chrisendom]

A lot to do in the coming few weeks, thus blogging will be sparse in the next little while.

And let me leave you with Jocelyn’s new found favorite, and my long-time singing inspiration since high-school — Bobdy McFerrin:

And of course, his Bach/Gounod’s Ave Maria:

Which he once recorded with Yo Yo Ma.