weblog of roderick kar

At the request of one of the viewers at YouTube, I have recorded how my UMPC had performed at starting up from suspension and hibernation. It’s getting late here in Hong Kong now, so I have only uploaded the suspension video below to YouTube:

As you can see, the computer actually resumed quite fast from suspension. [...]

Tommy is one of many stray cats that my friend, let’s call her Mary, attends to. Tommy is very sick now and "she" wants me to spread her life story so that people don’t mistreat or abandon their companion pets. Being caretakers of stray animals in Hong Kong is not easy. They are always being [...]

It is about time to write something about PC. I have had my first UMPC for almost two months now. The latest generation, which should become obsolete by early 2008 the latest, of UMPC offers portability that is almost as good as PDA (depending on how you usually carry your PDA) and the functionality of [...]

Today marked the 1st anniversary of my relationship with my MacBook.

The title says it all. This is my first video podcast and my first entry on my newly created blog, gadgetjunkie.hk. What better subject to blog on than using the just released iMovie’08 to create a video for sharing on Apple’s new Web Gallery. The following is a low version of the video on YouTube [...]

If you have missed An Inconvenient Truth on both the big screen and DVD, don’t miss this one. While An Inconvenient Truth has revealed the "truth" about global warming, The 11th Hour is supposed to offer us answers and how we as individuals can change at the 11th hour to create a sustainable future. I [...]

Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers arrived just now from Amazon. When I checked two weeks ago, Commercial Press had never heard about this book and Page One had only one paperback copy in Festival Walk. And they didn’t plan to restock it. The Weather Makers tells the history of climate change and looks at solutions [...]