Finally, I've got my new eye candy.  More on the technical evaluation later.  I'll have some fun with it first!

I don't want to be seduced again by consumerism but Dell LCDs are on bloody sale on the street - USD840 for 1920x1200 24".  As researched earlier, the 20" model was said to be having the same panel as the Apple Cinema (both from Philips).  I would guess it's the same for the 24 and 30 inches babes.  However, note that even though with the same panel, the internal circuits might make a difference between the two in neck-to-neck comparison (from CNet).

The latest salary survey for Asia Pacific from ZDNet.  Don't worry if you are not even close to the fringe of the range.  It takes a lot of effort, and brutality, in order to get to such positions.  Oops... sour grapes?

Cheers.

For me (i.e. `mine'), I cleaned up my PC and did a bit of desktop decoration for 4 days straight.  Ha, silly?  Perhaps, but it costs me nothing except the minimal on house electricity and the broadband.  I am in search of a cheap life style for retirement preparation.  Besides, I was annoyed by my PC's sluggish behavior for the past few months (no, not yet Linux, still XP, even though I like the penguin) and decided to take a look of what's under the hood.  Well, this usually happens after years of installing useless software on your PC, with each one of them setting up several useless background tasks cumulatively.  (The fact: I didn't expect 4 full days as I intended to do a Drupal upgrade here plus some CSS corrections as well, originally...)