I’m posting this from my new Axim, using my Pocket SharpMT. I guess that makes it mobblogging. Creating entries seems pretty easy. I wonder if this will be a practical way of doing this?
Archive for 2005
I finally got my Axim x50 from Dell. After a little mix up with the billing address, the order process was pretty smooth sailing (although there was absolutely no feedback at the Dell website). My first impressions are: LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT! It’s certainly a great leap forward from my old Palm IIIc, which I’ve used religiously until a few days ago. Read the rest of this entry »
I won’t go into a lot of technical details here, but rather I will attempt to describe a few key points regarding setup and choosing good applications for the Axim.
Read on for more software tips.
These days you need a password for just about everything. And for security each password should be different and hard to guess. This means that keeping track of website username password combinations is extremely difficult. One possibility is to use a substitution cipher that makes a simple easy to remember password, like “bank” and turn it into one that looks “hardened”. Nizo posted this some time ago at Slashdot for the entry Too Many Passwords
Two minor drawbacks: 1) Never lose the original cipher. 2) If the “bad guy” gets a set of several of your passwords, a substitution cipher is easily cracked. That being said, it would be a rare chance for someone to acquire several of your passwords to break the code.
Oh boy! It’s +5oC and the Easter Parade is this Sunday (March 27). It’s going to be cold, cold, cold! You can be certain that I will be wearing very many layers under my kilt… Screw tradition!
Anyways, if you are interested, check out the Black Water Pipe Band website for the particulars.
You need to switch your language setting to Chinese (Big5) need to be able to view Unicode to see the symbols correctly in this table:
| Counting in Cantonese | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 一 | yat1 | 6 | 六 | luk6 | |
| 2 | 二 | yi6 | 7 | 七 | chaat1 | |
| 3 | 三 | saam1 | 8 | 八 | bat3 | |
| 4 | 四 | sei3 | 9 | 九 | gau2 | |
| 5 | 五 | ng5 | 10 | 十 | sap6 | |
The numbers beside the phonetic spelling represent tone “shapes”. There are 9 tones and 3 tone levels.
| Tonal Pronunciation | Tonal Pronunciation | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | High Falling | 6 | Low Level |
| 2 | Low Falling | 7 | High Level |
| 3 | Mid Rising | 8 | Mid Level (short) |
| 4 | Low Rising | 9 | Low Level (short) |
| 5 | Mid Level | ||
