How to ruin a perfect Saturday ?

  1. 09:58 – Surfed to www.hkticketing.com
  2. 10:00 – Selected “Hong Kong Sevens 2009”
  3. 10:01 – Waiting …
  4. 10:05 – waiting …
  5. 10:10 – “System Busy” message
  6. 10:11 – Go to Step 2
  7. 11:11 – Go to step 2 for the 100th times
  8. 12:11 – Go to step 2 for the 200th times
  9. 12:19 – Finally, jumped into the “Seat Availability” page
  10. 12:20 – “Seats Unavailable” message
  11. 12:21 – All sold out ? #%^@&*$^$# … What a system ?!

What a way to ruin a perfect Saturday ?

Government services in the 2.0 era

There are many people claimed that they are experts in Web 2.0 and e-Government. Seriously, not many of them can really explain the details of the two concepts, let alone how to link the two together … But here is one from Tara Hunt – great presentation and lots of details.

“Government Next”

Enjoy.

From Pine to Gmail

 

Yesterday, Google released some themes for their Gmail platform … in fact, 30 new themes. Many of them are simply new color schemes but some include beautiful backgrounds. It really spices up my “email world”. I picked the “Mountains” theme as my default Gmail theme for now, but I have to admit the “Terminal” theme is really really cool for old dogs like me. 

It reminds me the good old days back in 1990s when the Pine (Program for Internet News & Email) from University of Washington was my favorite Internet tool.

Try it out !!