Barry Bonds Day

This is a good year to be a baseball fan in San Francisco (even though the Giants have one of the worst season in recent history) First, we had the All-star game in July. Second, Barry Bonds hit his record breaking 756 HR here at AT&T park on Aug 7th. Today Mayor Gavin "Handsome" Newsom hosted a celebration honoring Barry's historic achievement and gave him the key to the city.

Canon TWAIN Driver 6.7.0 for Windows 2000

I am trying to unload pictures from my TX1 to my Win2K PC. Win2K did not recognize it as a generic USB mass storage device (unlike XP or Ubuntu) so I had to look for a driver. I was not able to find it from Canon USA's website but I found it here. Not sure if I'm supposed to use it outside Asia but I'm Asian so I guess I qualified >:) (BTW, it asks what region I was in during installation and I picked US. No problem)

Install emacs

I am an Emacser. There, I said it! It is not included as part of Ubuntu (but vi is! How unfair!) In order to try the latest and greatest version (22), I had to download and compile the source myself. The instruction in INSTALL works, only after I researched how to get rid of the various error (need to apt-get build-essential and libncurses5-dev.) Now I have it running in character mode! The journey to windows mode will continue...