TagCloud

Following what Kenneth did, I created a tagcloud of my own, using Wordle and sourcing my RSS feeds.

Firefox 3.0 Download Day

Just doing my part to spread the word. Go guys!

Come on you little red dot..

PS:

Was having trouble with the Tab Mix Plus for FF3 on the Mac. But here it is:

http://tmp.garyr.net/tab_mix_plus-dev-build.xpi

Flightplan

Just two websites I’d like to post, for future reference regarding plane seats and plane food.

Seatguru

Seatguru.com offers detailed seat plans for aircraft owned by different carriers. I’m most impressed with Cathay Pacific for having the Empower™ socket which can power one’s laptop throughout a flight. Seat dimensions are also available. I think the information on budget carriers is somewhat limited though.

Airlinemeals

Many people I know don’t really like plane food. Hard-to-chew bun, soggy pasta, and an entreé that has the same characteristics of a Chinese restaurant takeout. Airlinemeals.net is a site that accepts community uploads on pictures of meals served on various flights. The database even stretches back to the meals served in the TWA flights in the 1950’s. The ultimate question that we still have to answer: “Chicken, Beef, or Fish?”

At the rainbow’s end

I was in Hong Kong over the weekend, and we managed to spot a busking group of Native American Indians doing a performance just outside Tsimshatsui. Imagine that. Native Americans in Hong Kong. Talk about a cosmopolitan city, and being a citizen of the world.

The sight of authentic Native Americans reminds me of the rich folklore associated with them. I’ve always been intrigued by Native American stories, be it Navajo, Iroquois, Sioux, what-have-you. One pictures sitting in the prairie by a wood fire, listening to a shaman spin away tales involving First Woman, Great Giant, Sun-God, and Coyote as characters. The sun sets, as the flute plays in the background.

Seminar bingo

Got this when I was attending a talk by Kevin Chu of Vitamin D Inc. Ideal if you are expecting a bored audience for your seminar.

TGIF, all.

Tiddlywiki

It is convenient at this time to introduce a very useful tool that has helped me tremendously at work.

Tiddlywiki is a microcontent WikiWikiWeb first developed by Jeremy Ruston. It is just one single HTML file, incorporating CSS and Javascript, and can be run in any internet browser (it performs best in firefox, though). It allows anyone to create personal self-contained hypertext documents, and these in turn can be posted onto the web, sent by email, or kept in a USB thumbdrive.

This GuerillaWiki is ideal for students to take notes in lectures and tutorials, without installing anything! The tiddlers in a Tiddlywiki can also be imported from other Tiddlywikis, allowing easy collaboration for projects. With a whole host of plugins & macros that are actively developed by the community, the only limit to how one can fully exploit Tiddlywiki for study or work is one’s imagination.

Above is an introductory video on how to use it. I hope it is as useful for you as it is for me!

The next phase

I’ve finally graduated, and moving on with the next phase of my life - career and family building. It just suddenly seems that the whole world opened up, once school’s out.

Entries are a continuation from here.