There are many people worked very hard before, and need help, respect and praise today.
There are also many working very hard today, and need help, respect and praise tomorrow.
Filed under: Ashes of Time, Photography on April 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Other than a good book by the pool, a cold drink under the sun … the next best thing to relax in a holiday resort is, really, cloud watching. You know, you can name every cloud you like, while the clouds drifting slowly … Obviously, there are lots of people sharing the same view, and [...]
Filed under: Off Topics, Photography on April 27th, 2008 | No Comments »
Really wanted to find a solution to take GTD with me even outside office and with no access to computer. The solution shall be the stuff that carry with me or I can easily access to - i.e. PDA / smartphone / phone and its software, notepad, stack of index cards, or remote voice mailbox [...]
Filed under: Services & Products, Technology on April 25th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Always on my mind” is one of my favorite songs, no matter it’s the original version by Brenda Lee or the cover versions by Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Pet Shop Boys and the latest by Michael Buble. But yesterday I found another cover version in a Hong Kong movie shot 15 years ago, and I [...]
Filed under: Music Video, Search-a-holic on April 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
“92% of guys say they washed, 34% were lying”
It’s always difficult to present some meaningless data, what even more difficult is how to make the people take action after they see the numbers.
And … here is one very good example of calling for action (don’t you think so ?):
Filed under: Presentation on April 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
One of the mobile operators in town recently introduced a new service - “Wireless fixed-line service”. What that marketing gimic exactly do is beyond me, but it gonnna be a mix of wireless and internet based telephone services. I am sure one day this kind of service will replace our usual fixed-line phone and by [...]
Filed under: Ashes of Time, Music Video, Services & Products, Technology on April 14th, 2008 | No Comments »
Wordpress released the latest version 2.5 for two weeks now. So I decided to give it try, after skipping 1 or 2 upgrades in the past few months. The upgrade process was simple as usual.
Deactivate all the plugins
Backup the database
Download the latest codebase, unzip and transfer to the server
Run the upgrade.php
Activate back the plugins
There are [...]
Filed under: Services & Products, Technology on April 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
Do you know your Wii remote can be hacked to create an interactive whiteboard, a multi-touch surface and even a Virtual Reality display head tracking device ? All these great ideas are from the brilliant graduate student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University - Johnny Lee.
I think we will soon see the [...]
Filed under: Services & Products, Technology on April 12th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We all now have cameras with over 10 million pixels, but when you posted the resized version to the web you will lost all the details of the picture. One possible solution is to zoomify it, such that you can see all the details (pretty much like Google Map).
Following is the grand hall ceiling of [...]
Filed under: Photography, Services & Products, Technology on April 11th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What will you do to present Number of deaths for leading causes of death. Let’s say the meaningless data will be something like:
Heart disease: 652,091
Cancer: 559,312
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 143,579
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 130,933
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 117,809
Diabetes: 75,119
etc.
Here is probably the best way:
See, will that help you to rethink how to present your data ?
Filed under: Presentation, Technology on April 9th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
