Embracing Open Source

I took a day off today to have "rest" which literally meant going to Mong Kok for those fake GAP shirts and not so bad Diesel bag for my office carriage, trying to replace my Microsoft Devdays 2004 giveaway bag. The weather was a bit rainy in the morning, remained cloudy throughout the day minus the drizzle. It is expected to cool down again to a balmy 12C over the weekend and early next week.

I forgot to mention that in my four years of stay here, it is my first time to receive red packets from anybody. It is a practice that married people hand it out to singles in time for the Chinese New Year celebration; same as our very own pinaskuhan in cash form.The red packets or lai see came from Marcus, Angela, Herman and the company I am working for. Not so big but very helpful.

When I got home, I could not handle Outlook's weak spam filtering option and instead wanted to give Thunderbird a try. So far it did not disappoint me. It loads up quite quickly, has a clean interface and ability to support this blog post. I still have to verify how effective it is in countering spam messages but I am assured it should be fine.