How To - Lightbox

Well well it may sound easy to implement the Lightbox photo album, but of course I think you all don’t mind some bits of the implementation details:

First, download the Lightbox Javascript, unzip it, upload to your server …
In the Lightbox /js/ directory, check the file lightbox.js, search the Configuration section. Ensure the paths to the [...]

When Flower Meets Web 2.0

Flowers are beautiful, especially when it is presented nicely with this new Web 2.0 photo slide tool (Lightbox with Prototype). Click the photo thumbnails and you will see why.

All pictures were taken in 2004 Flower Show. For the step-by-step instructions on mashing a blog tool with this Web 2.0 effect, check [...]

Random Thought - Patriotism

Some friends of mine said they like this picture I took from Seoul, so here is the Black & White version of it. In fact, when I took this photo, I had a few question marks in my mind …

When was your last time you wear your country’s traditional costumes ?
When was your last time [...]

Web Idea: What The Duck

It’s not my own web idea, but the whattheduck.net illustrate one web idea that I found very interesting …

First the site, pretty much like a “new media”, is run by Aaron Johnson. This site hosts the Comic Strip “What the Duck” (a photographer), and you won’t find it in other traditional newspapers, magazines. In other [...]

Our Iceberg Is Melting

No, it is not about the movie An Inconvenient Truth (lower your PC speaker volume before you click the link), but it is a book that talks about Change Management.
It is a very thin book that you can probably finish it in a morning, yet with a very good story / fable (how a coloney [...]

Why Your Camera Does Not Matter ?

Finally, someone (actually Ken Rockwell) said it … in eight languages !! I always wonder why people keep chasing new gears when what they actually need is to practise more. Some selections from the article …

Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image.
Buying new gear will NOT improve your photography.
The camera doesn’t make [...]

Rube Goldberg Beer Pouring Machine

Not sure about you, but I want to implement any of the Rube Goldberg’s inventions when I was a kid. Those are just amazing stuffs. So you can imagine how exciting I was when I see one very good implementation, with video in YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X5-KX50ABY

And you can find other equally amazing machines here.

10 Years On …

While most people think it is the right time to plan for year 2007, I reckon it is about time to think “what have I done in the last 10 years ?”. So I retrieved back the web site I did for myself 10 years ago (no kidding …). And I found this in the [...]

New Year Resolutions

Really enjoy the What The Duck comic strips a lot … something about geek, humor and photography.