Some interesting sites...

I found a very interested website from my company internal blog. :P I did play around with it, and my friend asks me not to post it until her T-shirt design is completed. :D I use song lyrics as the input for the text processing. The song I chose is “That I’ll be good”. Yeah, I know, it’s a sad song, but I just can’t help it, especially I still feel hurt, and try to comfort myself on my own, telling myself that I’ll be good. OK, that’s too out of the topic. Here’s the snapshot of the website, and one of the output that I captured from my “work”... :D This site or I would say this web application process the text that you provide, and depends on the frequency of the word that resides in the text to decide which word to be included in the “design”. You can change the clouds of word with different layouts and colours. I just click on the “Randomize” button. :P It’s rather slow, because it’s using java application. However, once it’s up, I think the speed is tolerable. http://www.wordle.ne...

I finally found it, the name of the cartoon that keeps on popping on my mind, Monster Inc! Found this site just now, from Google search, of course. Disney Movie Guide. I love the little girl in the movie. She is so cute, so pure, and so innocent. I like the way and the story line how Sulley and Boo get closed. The relationship just grows without any planned effort. They have a room in their hearts for each other. It is soooo sweet! ^__^ This site has all the Disney movies listed. I saw Wall E on the home page too. It was a very romantic movie, my brain retrieved some sweet and happy moments from the database. Hahaha... OK, back to the list of Disney movie. It was started in 1937! Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Then, it’s Pinocchio! I did have the Pinocchio in cassette when I was kid. All sweet memory is coming back to me... how nice... :) Go and visit this site, I am sure you’ll find you sweet and unforgettable memory there. Have a nice day! http://www.disneymovieslist.com/

I have this habit. I am not sure how many people like me out there. I used to watch Japanese drama or Korean drama, then google for the scripts or story line of the drama, even before or after finished watching them. I find it easier to understand in details by reading, instead of by watching. By watching, it allows you to see the whole picture. By reading, you’ll see something more details inside it. I was listening to Secret Garden by Bruce Springsteen, with some lines from Jerry Maguire. I can’t find a video clip from youtube on this version. I wanted to know what exactly Renee Zellweger said in the movie, then I found this website. http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Jerry-Maguire.html I think this website is fantastic. How I wish if it can have Chinese translation, or scripts to movie in other languages! http://www.imsdb.com/

One of my father's favourite things is animal. He reared several types of animal… My, I can only barely remember dogs and crocodiles. Can you imagine that, he had crocodiles?! It is so cool! We were talking about dogs. I described one type of dogs that I like, and I wish to have. He told me it’s the German Shepherd Dog . Yeah, I think it was years ago. I wished I had a pure white or pure black one. Things change, people change, my wish changed too. :P I did a wiki search, browse through the wiki pages, finally got the one that I am fond of. The Siberian Husky . If only I can have one stay with me. But I doubt I really want it. You know why? If it’s not to be meant to be here, it shouldn’t be brought here. It’s like those “imported” animals in zoo; need to be adapted in a place, which is not their habitat. I have mumbled a lot. The web page that I wanted to share today is something to do with animal. Hahahaha~~ I got to know about these sites when I was reading some weird facts abou...

I come across this URL again on a local newspaper couple of days ago. I have faith in almost all of Google’s applications. (shh… I didn’t try all, but those I tried, I am very satisfied.) If you click on the planets listed down there, it will bring you to the planet location in the sky. Each planet seems to have its own symbol. I didn’t know about that. I think this should be included in our school syllabus. We would be easily draw and identify the planets. It’s fun to learn about planets this way, personal opinion. One funny thing happened was, I click on the Earth. I was expected it to bring me to the Earth in the sky. It pops up to the Google Maps instead. Hahahaha~~ I wonder if an alien is using this tool, what would he/she/it think. As a conclusion, I think this tool is not alien-friendly. :P Anyway, I do wish there will be some enhancement on the zoom in. It stops at the last 5th zoom in scale. :-s http://sky.google.com/

I can’t really remember how I was introduced to this web site. I recall that I got a one-year free newsletter delivered to my door. It was years ago. During my first job… I think. :D I consider myself am into IT, not in a very deep knowledge on how-to, but I like it in general, the convenience that IT development brought to our daily life, at least, my daily life. I am still subscribing online newsletter from Techrepublic, glance through some of the white paper, least of the time. :P Most of the time, I just leave them in my mailbox. Pity them. I guess, I should spend sometime to glance through, at least the highlighted title to get myself updated on IT trend. I am planning to start this while I am switching my job to non-IT related… funny, huh? Probably, this is just one of my dreams to achieve. I rarely go to this site, actually. Whenever I found a topic posted on the white paper download, it always requires me to login. I always need to go and dig my account information, or click on...

It's been long time that I have never put any new URL here. I always have problem to remember this simple URL, so I better put this down before I need to google for it again! I am a Malay-educated, at least for my secondary school education, or even partially of my university life. There are some terms, I know in Malay, but not in English or Mandarin, so I normally visit this site, to get the translation. Anyhow, when I need a word in Malay, but I only know it in Mandarin or English, I'll use this site too. It's quite handy to get the word in other 2 languages using this site. A lot of time, the words that I am looking for are not there. For example, the word "logamaya" in Malay. I have to use Google to search for "Malay + logamaya" to figure it out. Mirage is the English word for logamaya. Anyway, even though it's slow, and limited vocabulary offered, but it's a quite handy site when I need to find the right word for my writing. :) http://search...

I went for a volunteering work last weekend. I taught how to use Wordpress to the teachers in Sungai Petani. I thought the purpose of the course is to help the teachers how to create and maintain their school web site. Anyway, I only knew it’s for personal usage (personal blogging) when I got there. Well, that’s not the main point I’d like to talk about here. :P I have experiences using Mambo, Wordpress, and now Blogspot for blogging purpose. I also used Mypaper @ Pchome.com.tw for blogging. I like the design in Mypaper, however, the pages load too slowly, not to mention now I am unable to get back my account after their upgrade… The other 3 are great, I would say. Anyway, this post is to introduce the best solution to suit the needs for small company/enterprise website. My friend IM me on the same day I taught Wordpress. I was too moody and tired to explain to her. She wants to create a simple site an online flower shop. I see a lot of friends doing this by setup a Blogspot site, and ...

I have a number of peers and friends like to ask me how to do a web page. I learn it from the Internet. Internet is so resourceful, and it’s so convenience and easy to learn how to create a web page! If you like one of your visited pages, and would like to know how the scripts are written, you can just right click on the page, and select view source (for IE browser). You can copy and paste and modify the scripts to be yours. Here’s a page for a quick reference on html. It’s rather complete, and has everything that you need to create a simple web page, or even a complicated one! I got this from one of the search result from my “routine” work. It’s even including some style sheet details. I think it’s quite helpful. Anyway, for those don’t know about IT at all, I strongly suggest you to use Word, and then choose to save as html files. The out come source code is definitely too complicated, but it’s definitely super easy for those who know Word. Unless… you don’t know how to use Word... I...

I recall my friend was so shocked with my office PC collections, Google logo! I do Google search everyday, on everything. Whenever I see a new logo, a seasonal or festive logo, I'll right click on the logo, and save a copy on my desktop. This happened for quite a long time. Hmm... A year or two, maybe. Then, my friend sent me a link on that logo archive. Of course, this might not the original link that my friend sent me. I can't really recall. When I browsed through the web pages just now, don't think it has all the logo that I have seen. Oh, probably this page only listed from year 1999 to 2005. Additional information. These festive logos are designed by Dennis Hwang . They are pretty and eye catchy, isn’t it? ;) http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html

I am not really sure how I got to know about this site. I believe it is due to years ago, I read this in a local Chinese newspaper on the correspondence courses. I sent my details and requested for the enrollment form. Anyway, I never started any class from this school. This site has been “enhanced”. You can check out the variety of courses offered, together with the lecturer details, the course outline, and you can even download the course material! I found it is very useful, and convenient for those who wants to “know”, instead of really go through classes and examinations. (Yeah, I am paranoid with exams. Thank god, it’s considered over for now.) http://chcsdl.open2u.com.tw/full/index.html

Malaysia is one of the countries that reside out of the earthquake area. If you ask me to name another, frankly, I don’t know. :P Anyway, for the past few years, especially after Tsunami hit north of penisular Malaysia, things seem to change. Whenever there’s earthquake in our neighboring country (Indonesia, I mean), we sometimes can feel it too. More and more shaking we can feel from the neighboring country, and sometimes cause paranoid among ourselves. I think stay alert is good, anyway. This site that I usually visit if I suspect earthquake happening is from USGS. The content is almost up-to-date. I am not sure if we can find any forecast in this website. But if you would like to confirm if the dizziness you felt is caused by the earthquake, you can do it from this website. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/

I think before I continue to introduce some other interesting site or page, I should introduce this online tool. I visit a lot of sites in Mandarin, thus for those who can't read Chinese, but wish to follow my trail in the Internet world should know this tool. It's a translator tool by Google. I know that Google has a lot of online gadgets and web-based tool that I don't realize. However, this is one of my most frequently used tools beside Google search engine that helps me a lot. Alas! I only able to get the snapshot in Mandarin version… hmm.. A highly intelligent tool that can capture my default language in Traditional Chinese... http://translate.google.com/

Recently, I am into guitar again. Bought a capo today. Get motivated by this song: When I see you smile by Bic Runga, introduced by a friend of mine. Found the guitar chords for this song in C Key. However, the original key of the song is not in C key or G key, so I can’t learn and play along with the song. Finally I got my capo, but… The chords sound not so right. So I search for another guitar chords for this song, or better still if I can find a tabulate! Finally, I found something in Dsus2/C#, Bm7 and bla bla bla… :-s I just know a few general and common chords. I can’t do a transpose on these chords… :-s Then, I found this site! Great job to the site owner! I can easily find any chords with the variations on this site. Anyway, it would be even greater if it includes common A on G, or Dm7 on G or F on C… :D Hehehe… good for people like me don’t really care to (or know how to) count for the number of semitones to get the right “spot”. :P http://www.all-guitar-chords.com/index.php

I bought a sewing machine last year. I am not sure what is the main purpose of buying it, but I wanted to make bags (and cloths, of course). I have made at least 1 bag, and 2-3 pencil cases. All are simple design, just a zip, and probably an internal pocket. Then I start to google online to check out handbag making sites. This is one of the sites I found. My god, I have not been visiting this site for quite a long time. I brought back my sewing machine back to hometown. With my “tight” schedule, I will never able to attend for the sewing class that was free with my purchase. Probably during my “ramp down” time, and get back my machine before go for the class again. Oh yeah, I almost forgot the main purpose of the site is to introduce the interesting web pages/web sites. This is the blog for the u-handbag owner, Lisa. It contains some how-to articles, which is definitely very useful and handy when you want to make a handbag! She also provide the how-to article in pdf format, so that you...

This blog was introduced by my friend, my ex-colleague, my junior… well, someone who loves to surf Internet as I do. Karen Cheng was a web developer and designer. There were some portfolios in her sites. She writes a lot about her kids, fashion, arts, things she does, and last but not least, her own photo shooting! I like the way she organizes her blog, packed, but tidy and clean. The way she presented the photos is really fantastic. My friend and I was once try to figure out how she did that! She really deserves to earn awards for her site. :) http://www.karencheng.com.au/

I decided not to use the URL as my title. It seems much misleading that a reader might think by clicking on the title will bring him to the actual site. And I think is cooler to put the site title (for this case), rather than the URL to catch reader's eyes. :P I am doing study on semiconductor. Guess what I found from Google? This! Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics! This site owner must be a super fan of Britney Spears! The site is rather informational, with some distractions from Britney’s pictures. However, overall it’s pleasant to read the articles together with the distractions. :) http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

For those interior design lovers, you must not miss this out. I found this website by keep clicking on the next blog on blogger/blogspot until I find one interesting site. Oh my! If you go through the site carefully, you’ll find out that this site was nominated for Best Hobby Blog! It is very user friendly, I mean, it has the button ready for multi-language translate. OK, back to the site contents. The site is like a online catalog, gives you ideas on how to setup your living room, bathroom, kitchen, bedroom, and even for accessories, and outdoor setup! Here’s the snapshot of the site! ;) http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/

I mostly visited the Yahoo China version, to search for information on Chinese culture and celebrations events. 雅虎知識堂 - http://ks.cn.yahoo.com/ It’s a site for you to post any question. If you have answer for the open questions here, you are allowed to answer them. There are ranking system based on your answer with伴读书童 (I don’t know how to translate this, can’t find it from translator either. Basically in the old days, this person would accompany his young master to study), 穷酸秀才 (a scholar), 圣贤 (saint) and etc. These rankings are based on the old time title for Chinese scholar, teacher and etc. I had a quick glance on answers.yahoo.com, but I can’t find something similar there though. Besides, there’s a point system in雅虎知識堂, which you can accumulate the points and redeem gift from Yahoo! Well, it’s meant for those from China, at least for now. I read the terms and conditions, Yahoo China reserve the rights to charge for the service in the future. Hopefully it remains FOC, and open for ...

I guess no one can deny that youtube is one of the most visited sites everyday! I do visit it and search for clips almost everyday! I usually search for some songs, and the entertainment programmes in youtube. I also use the embedded codes from the site to be included in my other sites for sharing purpose. I think these sites and with the embedded code sharing concept is the best idea for sharing your ideas and your talents, sharing among friends for interesting clips, advertising… and tonnes of informative contents can be found from this site! What amazed me most is, I am working on photon and semiconductor interactions report, and tried my luck here, guess what I’ve found??!! Lots of clips on electrons, semiconductor, photon emission, and even lectures on this topic! I thought it has only entertainment related clips! How silly I was! Thanks for those who upload the clips and share for the whole Internet community! http://www.youtube.com

What is the second website that amazed me? Yes! It's wikipedia! It has helped me a lot in doing my master programme assignment, and a lot of my writings (in my some other sites). Along with the Internet community growth, more and more data are dumped into this space which might be not true, or incorrect. This site provides the trusted contents, at least to me, to be used in my write-ups. I don’t have the figure of confident level for this site from any survey, but it definitely above average and approaching the excellent! A big kudos to all wikipedia contributors! I really do hope one day, I’ll be part of the community! http://en.wikipedia.org

The first and foremost site that I'd like to introduce here is Google search engine. This has been the best site that I can find all sorts of information on earth (or even out of earth)! I work as a web architect currently, but I do not have any educational background on web. Google helps me a lot since day 1 I work as web planner and developer few years back, and it is still my first choice of search engine! Bravo, Google! I'll continue to introduce the websites which I think it's cool, useful, informational and worth visiting. :) http://www.google.com