Had a good chat with some friends the other day about types of boss in our work life. There was a theory that there are two types of boss - one is a control freak who keep yelling to their staff, and one is with mentor style that helps the staff to develop themselves.
I wonder what type of boss I am, but I am a firm believer of the quote from sculptor Michelangelo:
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Filed under: Friends on July 19th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
All a sudden the story of one million people is no longer trendy in our city, instead people keep arguing whether they shall get their cut from the recent 11 billion dollar plan to combat inflation. Seriously, can this plan really help those in need ?
SSP old lady
ssp rental advertisement
Filed under: Off Topics, Photography on July 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
Just couple of hours ago Wordpress released the latest version 2.6, and what you seeing now is the upgraded version !! Yes, I cannot stand the previous two versions because of the slow load time. And I am pleased to tell you all that this version is FAST, with a lot of new features as well.
Good stuff !!
Filed under: Services & Products, Technology on July 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
Other than the Apple iPhone 3G, the launch of Google Lively is indeed one of the hottest news this week. So just three days after the launch of the beta version, how is it doing ? Here are some good and bad things I found so far.
- I managed to download the Lively plug-in, installed it, set up my avatar, designed my first “room” and got hanging around the room within an hour. It’s better than my Secondlife experience on this.
- The plug-in runs pretty fast in Firefox 3.0 and Internet Explorer 7, and feels faster than Secondlife.
- I can set up “gadgets” easily to feed my own photos and a video feed from Youtube.
- You can embed the room into your own website, blog or Facebook account (yet to be tested, but the application is here).
- The chat messages and avatar expressions appear in rooms you visiting almost instantly.
- I can easily embedded to my Wordpress blog.
Here is a screen shot of the room I created - 80 Days Cafe.
As you can see, I added …
- An avatar with new hairstyle, t-shirt and jean …
- Two red colored sofas, a coffee table, a standing lamp and one potted plant.
- A wall mounted picture frame that gets a feed from my photo album and a click to the picture will link to a website selling my photo album (neat !!)
- A LCD TV on top of a bench, with a feed from a selected video (Wicked Game guitar solo by Greg Reiter) from YouTube (neat neat !!). The sound is great as well …
Check out the problems and the Google Lively trailer after the jump …
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Filed under: Services & Products, Technology on July 11th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I think it will be called the greatest final ever in history of Wimbledon, in fact it may be one of the greatest final of any sports. Imagine you’re still in the Centre Court after 4 hours of fighting, I think in your mind there would be only a few voices … like “Focus, focus, focus” and “Hold on”.
You know what, the last thing any players will see before they enter the Centre Court is an inscription above the entryway:
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same
These two lines are extracted from Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If”; but in fact, the other few verses of the same poem pretty much described the situation of the final:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”
Filed under: Off Topics on July 8th, 2008 | No Comments »
Zheng Jie is a real fighter and we all enjoyed very much her playing in Wimbledon 2008. Only 25 years old, she is brave, kind, working hard, and humble. I hope all Chinese youngsters can learn all these characters from the new idol. Best wishes to Zheng Jie.
Filed under: Off Topics on July 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The first copy of the photo book is good looking and beautifully printed, so I think it is time to make it public and available for sale online in Blurb.com. One can pick up a copy of the book with soft cover, hardcover with or without dust jacket.
Frankly, I don’t expect to sell any, but the experience in learning how to publish a book on demand is great.
Filed under: Book, Photography, Travel on June 25th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I think most of us, Twitter users, are fed up with Twitter’s performance and reliability … but at least they show a good graphic with the error message. Is that the ROR performance issue again, or the Database, or just the architecture ?
Filed under: Services & Products, Technology on June 24th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Even after 5 weeks and countless hours of video footages, the photos of the tragedy are still very shocking. A photo exhibition that not to be missed … but only last to 22nd June in APM shopping mall.
Filed under: Photography on June 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
This beauty finally arrived from the mail and it looks absolutely gorgeous. It took altogether 4 weeks to finish and here are the details:
- Day 01 - download the free software BookSmart from Blurb.com
- Day 02 - starts the “design” of the book … and it lasts 15 days, as I needed to select the photos, add some, remove some; and searched the information of the place thru the web. It took a long time !!
- Day 15 - upload the finished book to the web site and place order
- Day 28 - it’s here !!
Filed under: Book, Photography, Travel on June 17th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
