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With homegrown 3G mobile technology still in the works, China recently rolled out 4G in Shanghai.

Field tests are being done for the new system, which will allow up to 100 Mbps (3G is at about 3 Mbps). The new technology is expected to be commercialized in 2010.

Via Crunchgear.

Translated from works provided by The Kafka Project, Franz Kafka’s journalized writings are positively, uhrm, Kafkaesque. Heh. I wonder how Anais Nin’s work would fare? Via Table of Malcontents.

“Take a step back and ask ‘What value is my site offering to users?’” - Google’s Matt Cutts. (Ok, so I re-used that content here, and have not added any value whatsoever. Heh. Still, the above are well-thought-out advice that bloggers (and other “content creators”) should heed. (Then again, I don’t care much about my PageRank, anyway, as dismal as it is. Might as well forget about it.))

Here’s a great way of displaying Flickr photos in a bunch. And for a spendthrift like me who doesn’t have a Pro account (yet), this is a nifty method of retrieving that long-gone photo that has been bumped off the 200-photo display limit for the free accounts.

Via Lifehacker.

Given:

$ ll Archive/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 d3m users 10 2007-01-26 16:29 file1.z
-rw-r--r-- 1 d3m users 15 2007-01-26 16:29 file2.z

What happens if:

$ cd ~/Destination; cp ~/Archive/*.z