Girlfriends Against Video Games

There is an interest article taking about that many girls complaining about their boyfriends spend too much time on playing video gamez. It's definitely a good article for my wife.

"We can all agree gaming is great, but there has to be some middle ground if your significant other doesn’t game..."

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Seko Couple Visit Vancouver

Wing's High school buddy, Seko and her husband Bruce from Wisconsin US, visit Vancouver on this Monday. We had a dinner at "New Shang Hai" Restaurant. Welcome to Vancouver, folks!

from left: Bruce, Seko, Wing and me
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New Wikipedia Search like Google Suggest

A new Wikipedia Search with LuMriX using AJAX, it just looks like Google Suggest.
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XBox 360 game console Selling in Store Today

"Hundreds of stores opened at midnight to satisfy fans who waited for hours. The curvy white and silver Xbox 360 marks the beginning of a new chapter in the history of video games."

Launch Party and Huge Lineup

One of the first to buy an Xbox 360 was 19-year-old Peter Gonzalez from Manhattan, who had waited nearly 30 hours at a local store.
"I feel amazing. It's going to be worth it," said the college student, who planned to stay up all night playing games before going to class in the morning.

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XBOX 360 SPECS

• Three IBM PowerPC-based 3.2 GHz cores
• One teraflop overall system floating-point performance
• ATI graphics chip with 10MB of embedded DRAM
• 512MB of 700MHz GDDR3 RAM memory
• Detachable 20GB hard drive
• Built-in Ethernet port
• Games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
• Streams media from portable music devices, digital cameras and Windows XP PCs
• Supports up to four wireless controllers

Bonus Reading:

• Microsoft Loses $100+ dollars per Xbox 360 unit (Reported on Slashdot)
  
"...the materials inside the unit cost Microsoft $470 before assembly. The console sells at retail for $399, meaning a loss of $71 per unit..."
• Nintendo & Sony line up in support of Xbox 360 launch
• Xbox 360 Crashing Like Mad?

DNS Utilities All-In-One Web Site

I don't know you're using it or not, but this site definitely a very useful DNS info center. If you have experience to check domain info at Whois.net, NetSolution, Register.Com and etc., you'll find out not all the information you get back from those sites can answer all your questions.
For example:

• What is your DNS speed (score)?
• Where is that IP address come from (City)?
• Where is the Spam email send from?
• DNS lookup or TraceRoute Info?

Now, they're all collected on ONE page - www.DNSStuff.com.

My Current Favor Taiwanese Singer

Well yes, Rainie(楊丞琳) is one of my favor singer currently. Her old song "Ai Mei(曖昧)" is touching, her voice is beatuiful, her face is so sweet. If you know where I can download her songs (MP3), leave me a comment.

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Rainie(楊丞琳) Howepage

Open Source Flight Simulator

Found an Open Source Flight Simulator called FightGear at http://www.flightgear.org

"The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user application. We are developing a sophisticated, open simulation framework that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing."

some screen shots

Kool Flash Project: Draw and Spin in 3D

Reported in Digg, found that interesting Flash project. You can try the version one here.

Oh Yeah! Google Analytics

I can't remember how many web analytics softwares our company using before, such as LiveStats, Urchin and Omniture's SiteCatalyst. Some of them are really expensive.
Hey folks, no more now. This morning, Jason told me it's free to use Google Analyst, check it out.
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Awesome Theatre Representation

That's awesome performance on one of the Japanese's TV show.
Two thumbs up! Take a look...

Programming Bugs in a Car

Toyota announced that there was a programming error in their Prius hybrid vehicle's embedded code, and it's a software bug. What the heck!

"Last month automaker Toyota announced a recall of 160,000 of its Prius hybrid vehicles following reports of vehicle warning lights illuminating for no reason, and cars' gasoline engines stalling unexpectedly..."

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Google Library Open for Business

You may or may not hear about Google tried to scan all the public & university library's books and government documents in order to providing a largest online library in the world. However, Google is entangled in a copyright battle over how much material they can be scanned.

In fact, Google Library has been opened quietly last week. Wanna have a try it, click here.

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WSDL 2.0 Draft 4 in W3C today

If you did web services, You may be interested in that article.
WSDL 2.0 Draft 4

Another IDE Option for J2ME Development - EclipseME

I'm a die hard supporter of Eclipse IDE. Recently, I need to do backend development for my company's mobile service using SMPP. I haven't do any front end development yet, but do some kind of research for coming projects. So first thing I did, was going to search a J2ME plugin for the Eclipse, here yago, that one looks koool.
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Next Generation of Software Modeling - DSM

If you're doing software, e-commerce development, design pattern & modeling are always a challenging task. The popular modelings, such as UML, OOA, OOD and OOP, MVC, GoF and etc, each of them has pro and con. To find out the best one to fit your project will spend most of time on your development cycle.

Currently, a new moelling concept called Domain-specific Modeling (DSM) announced that "Domain-specific modeling promises to change the modeling landscape by providing a greater level of abstraction from code than UML, providing modeling constructs for developers that mimic the real-world objects more closely, and most importantly, providing complete code-generation capabilities, which together lead to a much more productive way for developers to model applications."

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Window Live!

Windows Live is not a hosted version of Windows. To distill it to its essence, Windows Live is the new name for the growing family of MSN services that are in various stages of development. The Start.com aggregator, the "Kahuna" Hotmail beta, MSN Spaces blogging tool, MSN Favorites and Windows OneCare are all part of the one, big Windows Live family now.

I tried it couple days ago. It's using AJAX & DHTML heavily on the interface. Even it's not that stable, (I had lost my session couple times on my tries, but yea, beta version, what do you expect), I started to love it.

Try Window Live Beta

It is really good for site feed (RSS, Atom), because you don't need any tools to help you saving all favour feed URL, you only need a browser and live.com will save all the config and site feed you subscribed. However, you must have a MSN or Hotmail account to do that. That's one of the thing I don't like (microsoft style), c'mon can I switch the mail service to Gmail? :)

Halloween Office Fever

Hey guys, it's Halloween again, do you have fun on the past Monday? I had a lot of fun on my company's annual Halloween Festivities at that time.
Can you recognize who is that Disco Man?

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Bonus: Jason decorated his house for Halloween, nicely done (photos).

Kids Smash a new 20GB iPod

It's strange world.

That's how kids make money today.
1) Pick a super hot topic today, ok "iPod" will do
2) Think about some crazy ideas (project), such as "Smash a brand new iPod", ok great.
3) Setup a web site call http://SmashMyiPod.com, then ask people to donate money so that they can purchase a new iPod and start their project.
4) They finally got enough donation and purchase a iPod, open it right inside the store, and destroy it right on the spot. The whole thing was shot on film, and displayed on their site (CRAZY dude, it's crazy)
5) They said they're making "pocket money" from the ads of the site (Sweet!).

ok, let's see the video shot - "Smash my iPod" (visit SmashMyiPod.com)

Weird, really weird!!

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Flash based MMORPG - Dofus

As you know, I usually spend my spare time on online gaming, but only looking for free one.

Back to 2 years ago, I found a Javascript based MMORPG - TRIGLV, wrote by gang of Japanese. It is easy to play no installation required and run under pure javascript on your web browser, but the result and game play is completely impressed you. I played it night & day with my ex-coworker Kevin and try to beat each other by exp, lvl and weapons. And it's completely FREE.

About a year ago, Kevin found another Java Applet based MMORPG - runescape, that's the one I currently playing, again we were addicting on it. Kevin is kinda quit of it today, but I'm still playing it. It requires JavaVM to be installed on you local computer, strictly speaking, you don't need to install anything and you can easy to play/launch it on ur web browser. The well-developed Java 3D engine and the speed are totally impressed me, and it is kinda FREE if you don't want to paly it with full functionalities.

Today, Jason introduced a new Flash based MMORPG - Dofus to me. What the heck! The graphics are so awesome beautiful. Among above games, it has the best music and sound effect so far. I haven't play it and just sign up today, and it is FREE from the beginning. It is completly flash based, and you required to install the game on your local machine before playing. If you're interested, take a look for some of the gallery first. Have fun!




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How to keep more photos on Flickr.com?!

First of all, I recommend you should pay for it, Flickr services are cheap and worth a lot, and it only cost you US$24+ each year.

If you're like me, yea... a cheap idiot, and that's how you do it.

If you stored photo on Flickr.com as free member, you will find out that it can only store max 200 photos and create max 3 sets. After you have more than 200 photos, your old photos will be gone from your profile. However, Flickr won't delete your old photos, and they're just NOT be able to view under your profile.

In order to find back my old photos easier, I add as many unique tags as possibile, such as your first & last name or email address.

After done that, go to "Advance Search" of "Tags" section of Flickr, type in as many unique tags as you can; for example, my Las Vegas vacation photos, I entered "Las Vegas", "Hotel", "Henry" and "Wing", then do a search, here yago, a complete set of my vacation photos (view result | slideshow).

Again, I'll recommend you pay for it :)