Some interesting sites...

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/