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Dr. Phil:

Winners do things that losers won't.

Source unknown:

Winners make commitments
Losers make promises

Winners go through a problem
Losers go around it, never get past it

Winners say, "Let's find out"
Losers say, "Nobody knows"

Winners always have a plan
Losers always have an excuse

Winners say "There's a better way"
Losers say, "It's the way it's always been done"

Winners are always involved in the answer
Losers are always part of the problem

Winners know there is still much to learn
Losers want to be considered an expert
before knowing how little is known

Winners learn from their mistakes
Losers learn only not to make mistakes
by not trying anything different

“Mahjong???”, you said.

In general, there are two kinds of Mahjong game: the more popular four-player game Mahjong and the one-player Mahjong Solitaire. The original Mahjong game is a gambling game which is very popular in Hong Kong and in most Asian countries. I’m not interested in the original Mahjong game, personally I think there are just too many rules for it to be fun to play without gambling, as I’m not into gambling. Mahjong Solitaire, on the other hand, is simple yet intriguing. The version I play is GNOME Mahjongg. You can find other versions and an explanation on how to play the game in the Wikipedia article for Mahjong Solitaire.

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While I was trying out del.icio.us, I found out that the porn image rendering library used by Mozilla is named libpr0n. Somebody must have a really good sense of humour. If you go to the website you can “register” your copy of libpr0n and get a “serial number” to “unlock” libpr0n so that it can render unlimited amount of pixels.

FYI, “pr0n” is a commonly-used alternative to write “porn” on the Internet. And yes, it’s a joke. The lib is an actual lib, but it’s clear that the name and registration thing are meant as a joke.

I’ve seen the cute URL del.icio.us before, but I couldn’t be bothered to check what it’s about. Until I saw Budi Rahardjo’s posting about centralized bookmarks solutions. “Cool! I’ll check it out later,” I said to myself. Then I saw some references to del.icio.us again today when I was browsing, so I thought I give it a try.

It works really well so far. It’s dead simple to add a new bookmark, del.icio.us provides you with a bookmarklet, after you sign-up, that you can click whenever you want to bookmark a page, (optionally) edit the description, add some tags to categorize the bookmark, and that’s it. The bookmarks will show on the main del.icio.us page as well as your own in the order it was added.

So to sum it up, the main advantages:

• “roaming” bookmarks: add anywhere, access anywhere,
• categorize the way you want it (with tags), multiple categories per bookmark,
• searchable,
• RSS feed,
• share your bookmarks,
• Mozilla extension,
• free.

Disadvantages (at least for me for now):

• can’t make bookmarks private, everything is public,
• can’t export the whole bookmarks (well, it’s not easy anyway), but not a big deal,
• the author says that it’s a pre-pre-alpha software so it’s not perfect yet, but I don’t know any tech junkie that would be deterred by that kind of statements.

Overall I give it two thumbs up and would recommend it.