It is now for sale

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 [...]

“Twitter is over capacity”

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 ?

Photos behind the news

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWQ51Ux1LVI

My first photo book

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 [...]

How to - Make a “model” picture

Let’s say you have a boring photo with some small cars and people … can we do some tricks to improve it ?
The following is a photo taken in a recent cruise tour to Taiwan.

Then an area with the objects were selected; invert the selection; apply Gaussian blur; and then adjust the brightness & contrast [...]

It’s just determination

Last year Paul Pott was the ordinary people that won the Britain’s Got Talent and George Sampson was an unlucky young man who could not make it to the semi-final. But just like the dancing version of Rocky, George enrolled to the BGT again this year and won !! He’s only 14 years old … [...]

Glorious Years

One of Beyond’s best songs was used recently in a big event … I can appreciate all the good intentions behind, but I just don’t know why the organizer didn’t hire a professional lyrics writer to do the job …
Anyway, we all know no one can do it better than Ka-Kui … we will remember [...]

Taipei Experience

Taipei may not be the first choice of many people to travel, but in fact the city changed a lot in the past few years that I certainly think worth a visit. You know, if one can afford the time and money, one shall always revisit a place every few years. So, what are the [...]

Getting things done, again

According to the productivity guru David Allen, we shall re-read his book Getting Things Done every three to six months - to see if we can learn something new. But after reading his book two times in the past already, it is not easy to pick up the book again. So this time I tried [...]