This past long weekend (Canada’s Civic Day) I have been playing with a free linux-based desktop operating system on all the PCs in our house. It has a strange name: Ubuntu. I must say that I like it a lot - it is much better than Lindows/Linspire which I tried and abandoned years ago because [...]

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Just got my cell phone upgraded from LG8100 to BlackBerry 8330. In the beginning I could not display Chinese characters in email and web browser. After following instructions given on this link to install Chinese fonts via Application Loader in BlackBerry’s Desktop Manager, now my BlackBerry can display all Chinese characters. Note that the installation [...]

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I’ve been maintaining the website for our church and we use the WordPress blog script to display our meeting updates and other items. Since our blog is written in Simplified Chinese (GB2312), I had several problems restoring the MySQL database used by the blog and yet still display the Chinese characters right - if you [...]

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Simple Machine Forum (SMF) is a pretty popular forum script but for some reason it lacks any RSS feed link in it. Now I have found an interesting article showing how to create RSS feeds by adding a few querystrings to the forum’s URL.
See how I use it to display five most recent posts of [...]

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