A friend of mine told me last night that she would get a new TV for Digital TV Broadcast service. This reminded me the old Analog TV Broadcast service will come to an end effectively on 1 of December.
朋友昨晚談到要買電視接上數碼電視網絡，令我不其然想起舊式模擬電視廣播會在十二月一日正式停播。
Personal look back for the past month
I normally went hiking in the Mount Parker country park, which is easily accessible and with sufficient distance as a workout. Hiking in the New Territories seems to be rare to me but I had one with my old classmates in Tsing Yi last month.
平日行山大部分時間都會到柏架山，主要是因爲交通方便又有足夠的路程。相對在新界的路線則較為少去，但在過去的十月尾便與老同學們到遠方的青衣島走了一轉。
Early in September, I had upgraded my old Windows based Intel NUC with a SSD. It ran swiftly for all my day-to-day works except one thing, Wireless network support is still missing. In case I would like to use the NUC as a multimedia player, this will impose some constraints especially on cabling and device placement.
早前為家中的 Intel NUC 更換了 SSD 後，日常運作已非常暢順，用起來亦很稱心。稍為美中不足是欠缺無綫網絡的支援，如要作其他用途，在擺位及網路配線上便較不方便。
On 18 October 2017, I published my first post on this blog.
For a typical techie like me, taking up blogging might seem a little bit wired and quite a lot of my friends were really surprised.
2017年10月18日，我在這裏發放了人生的第一篇文章。
對於一個從讀書、工作都是典型 Techie 的我，入手寫網誌是一個很奇怪的開始，亦令身邊很多朋友感到驚訝。
Eric Clapton was asked about how it felt to be the world’s best guitarist.
His response: “I don’t know. Ask Prince.”
Personal look back for the past month
It has been about two weeks since my boy’s school resumed lessons. Other than having to get up earlier to take him to school, I have the luxury to have more spare time in the morning.
As we did not have any outdoor activities for quite a while, my wife suggested to visit the Mount Parker Country Park today.
不經不覺間兒子回校上課已兩星期多，除了要早點起來陪他上學外，早上卻多了些空閒時間。
很久沒有往外走，今天太太建議到柏架山郊野公園行山。
Personal look back for the past month
Making a good hand drip or pour over coffee demands good understanding of coffee bean, grind level, coffee to water ratio and various pour over techniques, etc. Beginners or average coffee brewers like me will probably overwhelmed by the tremendous amount of information, jargons and techniques available over the Internet.
Hello guys! It has been a long time since my last blog!
Today I’m going to share some interesting rules in Mathematics that is about “How to determine whether a given integer is divisible by a fixed divisor without actually performing the division”.
After a hard day’s housekeeping work, I finally sat down, picked up my guitar and played along those videos suggested by YouTube.
忙了一整天，終於可以坐下來，提起結他跟隨著 YouTube 推介的 video 一起彈奏。
我家兒子原先報考了今年四/五月舉行的 ABRSM Grade 8 Piano Practical Examination (英國皇家音樂學院八級鋼琴術科考試)，但因應年初疫情，考試被迫取消。為免浪費數個月的試前準備(其實是高昂的學費)，我亦跟隨學院的建議，申請了年尾的考試。
最早認識到 Bon Jovi 是我剛大學畢業的那個年代，和很多年青人一樣，第一首接觸的是 1986 年 11月 Billboard #1 歌曲 You Give Love a Bad Name。
I have a 6 years old desktop Windows PC in my home that is mainly used by my wife. However, as my little boy is getting older and needed to use the computer as well, it became quite inconvenient to have them sitting in front of the desktop. I ended up buying notebook computers for them subsequently.
Despite that desktop PC is a little bit old, it still got the works perfectly done if just for daily home use or web surfing. The only downside is the slow PC startup time and that’s why I decided to replace the hard disk with a SSD.
家中一台已購置六年多的桌面 Windows PC 主要是給太太使用，但隨著兒子長大並開始接觸電腦，要他們安坐書枱前便有點不太方便，於是便轉用了筆記簿電腦。
雖然這台電腦有點舊，但如只用作日常的資料處理及上網，它還是升任有餘。唯一不足處是開機時間稍長，最近便決定為它的硬碟升級至 SSD。
不經不覺又一年，舊車續牌前又要先來個驗車。
經舊同學介紹，早上駕車到炮台山附近的車房作年檢及政府驗車。
今天是開學第三天，亦是正常課堂的開始。
由早上八點十分伸延至下午三點四十五分，真有些辛苦，還好功課不算太多，剩下的時間仍可休息、聽音樂。
Personal look back for the past month
我在上一篇關於開學的 post 講過一般家庭如有數位適齡學童，要為他們購置電腦或平板電腦作遙距上課會構成一定的經濟壓力。
那刻曾想過怎樣去舒緩這問題，經過數天沉澱後，今天就來試試探討一下。
2020 年的暑假過得很快，但感覺上又好像從未開始過，不竟學生們從年初的新春假期後，已差不多半年沒有回校上課。
