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I can’t recall how I found this website, anyway, it was safely kept in my favourite’s folder. I talked about IkeaHacker before, and this is LifeHacker. :) As I browse through this website again, found this article, “What should I do about my virtual life after death?” Anyone else has the same concern? Or most of us have the same concern? I myself never thought of that. However, I started to think about this few days ago, when I saw the friend recommendation on Facebook telling me that I might know this person, my friend, who died early this year. It’s a bit freaking me out because of all recommendations that Facebook made so far, he rarely appear on the list. But this recommendation was “stuck” to my Facebook page few days ago, even though I kept refreshing that page. (In case you don’t know or you are not aware of, this month is the 7th month in Chinese Lunar calendar, some call it Hungry Ghost month.) I am not sure what do I wish to do with my online accounts. I guess it doesn’t real...

I should start working, after watching the drama and also working on today’s photo and post it to my blog and Facebook. It’s been a long while, I really should start to work. But... in case you don’t know, today is 七夕, the 7th day of the 7th month in lunar calendar. There are quite some stories, or related tradition activities today. My English is not really good to tell the stories, so I’ll try my best to briefly talk about one of them. This day, is also referred as Chinese Valentine’s Day. We have 2 yearly, I think, one is on the 15th of 1st month in lunar calendar, and the other one is today. Today is the reunion day for 牛郎 (niu lang) and 織女 (zhi nv). 牛郎is a mortal, where 織女is a fairy (Any other term? I got this from Google translate, probably deity? I am not sure.) They were in loved, got married, and have kids. When the 天帝 (Emperor of Heaven) knows about it, He summoned 王母娘娘 (The Queen Mother?!) to bring her back to heaven. 牛郎had a 灰牛大仙 (immortal cow), who helped him to chase afte...

I attended a one-week Design Pattern class couple of weeks ago. I remembered boss asked me, “Do you know what design pattern is? Please go and find out before you want to sign up.” Frankly, I didn’t know what Design Pattern is, if you ask me now, I can’t really tell you what it is, still. I briefly read some introductions from Google search result, and told him my justification to sign up for the class. I think it is useful not only for software design, but also hardware design. SystemVerilog does support object oriented, thus it should be applicable in my work related area. I told my some friends about this, people think this is my excuse to go for the class. I hope my boss didn’t, because I really do think it works that way. I think, Design Pattern is an abstract methodology, using object oriented concept, to ... to solve issues, to tell about relationship, how relationship works, in software design, maybe using SystemVerilog in hardware design flow, and in our life. One funny, but s...

I went to a class of The Analects of Confucius. It was very interesting, indeed. I love literatures. I am not sure why. I do think literatures bored me, sometimes. I hesitated to go for the class, because I am afraid I might fall asleep in the class, secondly is because I am unable to fully attend the class due to some planned events. I was glad that I went, and found my new idol, the speaker (傅承得老師). Though he was just sitting there, talking and reading through the book, I rarely fell asleep in the class (except the hour after lunch)! It’s rather sad to see today’s education system, which emphasize on the “technical” or knowledge based, rather than having teaching or helping a student to be a better person. If you try to understand the life of Confucius, how he taught his student, by reading the Analects of Confucius, you’ll know how a great teacher can be. I don’t know how to put these in words, especially in English. In short, he is a great educator, a great philosopher, and a great...

Unicode is a character encoding standards to support multi-language characters, including Braille. As you know, we normally have Big5 for traditional Chinese, and GB2312 for simplify Chinese, of course there are more, or variations for the Chinese characters. It is very inconvenient when you are browsing between web pages in simplify Chinese and also traditional Chinese. I have a lot of this problem last time, when I was active in one of the popular Chinese forums in Malaysia. The text that I entered sometime can be “corrupted” (亂碼), probably due to the browser was set to view in GB2312 encoding, but my input is Big5, or vice versa. Sometimes, I need to set to view in HZ, and then the text only can be readable. I am a traditional Chinese character supporter, though I can’t really write it, at least I can type it. :P So, with Unicode come in place, it eases all these pain. However, probably not all websites are using this encoding, but at least it is a great solution to the web domain, ...

Do you still remember bubble sorting? It’s the simplest sorting algorithm, which can sort a small data quickly. When it comes to a large pool of data, this is not the best algorithm to be applied. So, how do we determine which sorting algorithm is the optimum (there’s no best one I guess) for the scenario that we are looking at? Found this website from Google search result. It has the simulation animation for different sorting methods, and also based on the data distribution. So, if you would like to know more, check this out. Click on the refresh icon on each sorting algorithm to start the simulation to watch the performance on the algorithm on different data distribution, and click on the data distribution refresh icon to view the simulation of different sorting algorithm on that data distribution. By the way, you can even choose the problem size! Enjoy! :) http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/ My comment on this website : light weighted, simple, clean, and precise. :)

I have been a student member to Lee Guitars right after my birthday this year. I heard his show over the radio, a daily 5 minutes sharing on Music topics. I added a link to its facebook, thus I am thinking of sharing this website with you today. :) Jonathan Lee (李宗盛) is a famous musician. He writes songs, he sings, and he makes guitars! This website basically introduces the guitar by Lee and also the radio shows on music classes that he conducted. He came to Penang last month, and too bad, it was too crowded, though I reached there around 5:30pm, but I left there just in time when he came. I blamed myself for reaching there too early. Else, I would have been in that restaurant watching him sharing in real person! I did blame for the restaurant personnel to bar me from entering the restaurant too. Should have told me there will be a queue numbering to go in for the session and dinner mah . :( I need to comment something about this web site structure. Firstly, it is using flash, thus it’...

I visited this website again today. I use this website look for those unknown file types. The first time when I landed on this website was due to I wanted to do “clean up” on the files in my PC. Some files are OK to delete, while some files are not. I can’t recall what the file extension I was looking for. Today, I am looking for the file extension of wll. We were discussed about dll files. I asked the teacher, what a wll file is, he doesn’t know. So, I search for the information. I have been compiling the program that I supported into wll file, but I have no idea what kind of application type that I am looking for. Finally, here it goes! Rupa-rupanya it’s for Word document add-in. :P Check it out! http://filext.com/

I spent months to go through every post in this blog, just because I was touched by his lyrics, I’d like to know what he’ll put in his blog. I was surprised to find out his photography touched my heart as well. Mayday is the spokespersons for BenQ. I was tempted to get one BenQ camera when I see this post... (Time tickling and I am still can’t find that post entry...) OK, I am unable to find out the post that I wanted to share here; it was photos of somewhere out there, not in Asia, but in a neighborhood. But this one is not bad too, don’t you think so? I love “long” photos, that’s why I love Canon pretty much, it has that setting to choose. However, the photos that he shared here close to square shape. I am not sure if it’s due to the blog settings, or the photos being cropped, or BenQ has this setting. :) What inspired me most about his blog is this entry : http://ashinmayday.mysinablog.com/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=978325 He wrote daily activities of Mayday, and their...

There was a hit from this Korean drama last year, Boys over Flowers. My friend lends me her VCD, and I watched it day and night except during working and sleeping hours. I am attracted to this talented girl who is the main actress in this drama, Koo Hye Sun. I googled, and read a lot about her. She was started as an online popular sweetie, then she starts her career as an actress, and story goes on. I was very surprised, in fact, in real life, she is so talented in music and art! The time when I was reading about her, she is having her illustration exhibition! I am soooooooooo e.n.v.y! This is her personal official site. I like the layout of the website. However, it’s quite “heavy” in terms on, the page load slower than others. It’s using flash in the web design. For non-critical web system like this, it is fine to use flash. However, I still prefer fast loading web site. I just subscribe to basic package from the internet service provider, so.... If you know Korean, check out her webs...

It has been for quite some time that I never update this blog, I have tons of url that I have kept to share in my laptop, which I wish I can shared all of them here, thus I can clean up my favourites folder. :P This is a URL sent by an admin from my department. I was so excited when I browse this website. I always have these cooking thoughts run in my mind. As I go through the ingredients and method to cook, it just quickly visualized as though I went shopping for the ingredient, food preparation, and starting to cook. It always stopped at the food almost ready, and I have already gone for the other food preparation. I never had a chance to taste it in my “vision”. Anyway, apart from the side talk, from this website, you can choose the ingredient of your interest, which kind of cuisine, type of food, whether it’s for dessert, appetizer or main course, and etc, and ta-da, it returns you the recipe results based on your interest! What’s more awesome, it has more than 14K of recipes avail...