It’s a strange situation which I never encountered: the disk would hang up after several hours usage. It drove mad since I never know when this would happen. I bought a new one last weekend.
Entries from July 2004 ↓
My hard disk down
July 28th, 2004 — Life
WordCount
July 24th, 2004 — Fun

WordCount presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonality. ‘Neuroscience’ is ranked 47780 in the database. 
Gentoo MacOS X Released
Gentoo Linux Newsletter — July 19, 2004
Gentoo now offers a great onw from which you can use Macs just like Linux box. 
A bookmarklet to split HTML document within the browser
July 18th, 2004 — Internet
The Link
Very useful when you read papers online in HTML format.
It works recursively only on Firefox. On Safari, if I split more than once, the splitted frame became blank.
Picasa
July 17th, 2004 — test

Picasa for free now. After it became part of Google, it offer the v1.6 for free. http://www.picasa.com/google/?promo=hpp1intl 
How to write Firefox extensions
July 16th, 2004 — Mozilla
How to write Firefox extensions
Something worth to try.
Bayden Systems – SlickRun
July 15th, 2004 — Life
Bayden Systems – SlickRun
It just likes the minicmd plugin (for a screenshot look at here of XFCE4 desktop environment. What’s more, it offers the alias name function to facilitate your access to the progs. Very nice.
Gmail Notifier Extension v0.2 for Firefox
July 14th, 2004 — Mozilla
doron’s blaahg
After a week’s vacation, Doron came back with a modified version of the Gmail Notifier Extension. It came with a lot of things, and the thing I like most is that it now use HTTPS protocol.

DOI Tools
July 14th, 2004 — Science
Many journals now offer DOI numbers to the articels they published. It’s great of getting short letters for any paper published, just like some web service that chunk a long long URL into a few letters.
< This page on DOI’s offical website offer good tools to even facilitate this.
bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search engine (bittorrent)
July 14th, 2004 — Internet
bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search engine (bittorrent)
Search engine just for bit torrent! It is from smash
The pis showed above is from Cheah Chu Yeow’s blog: Redemption in a Blog. Thanks.