The Cartoon Guide to Statistics

Larry Gonick / 1993

October 29, 2005 book

This is a very concise book on Statistics. It is also enjoyable to read (probably due to the cartoons). It takes only around one or two days to finish the whole, however, it covers a lot of topics that you may need for statistics. Of course, you should never expect... [more]

SMTP servers of the ISPs in Hong Kong

October 8, 2005 blog reference

ISP SMTP Server ABC Net mail.hkabc.net CTI smtp3.ctimail3.com HGC mail.on-nets.com HKBN smtpo.hkbn.net HKC smtp.hkcmail.com HKNet smtp.hknet.com I-Cable smtp.i-cable.com iSmart smtp.ismart.net NET Front mail.netfront.net Netvigator mail.netvigator.com, corpmail1.netvigator.com OneBB smtp.onebb.net Pacific Supernet smtp.pacific.net.hk So-net smtp.so-net.com.hk [more]

MetaPost to EPS

October 6, 2005 blog code

The FAQ for MetaPost drawing is why ghostview cannot preview the picture but you can still included in LaTeX. Actually, this is due to the fact that, MP output is not a completely valid postscript, but just a partial file. Whenever you included some text, it cannot understand where to... [more]

List Plugin for DokuWiki

October 3, 2005 blog code

I am sorry to know about DokuWiki so late! It is a fabulous wiki system and fits all my expectation for a good wiki. Of course, for a personal wiki is excellent but anything in larger scale may fail. [more]