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Hello fellow readers, I hereby announce that dotkoyi has been moved to the following URL hosted at my home server (^^)

http://dotkoyi.hobby-site.org/

From now on, all updates will be added to the new site. However, I will leave this site active in case there are any troubles with my server at home.

Happy New Year (^^)

Some nice songs

A long-time-no-see friend sent me a link of a nice song, which led me to this site which provides a collection of more nice songs :-)

To all my friends: I know sometimes when I am too stressed with my work load, I will be very down and this might cause you a bad time dealing with me :-P I am sorry about that and really appreciate you guys being there. Thank you. - from a sometimes-not-so-friendly friend ;-)

For those who are in hunt for a job!!! Must read!!!

Oh... I absolutely know that I should be doing work now. But this article would certainly help those looking for jobs, this would include many of my friends and juniors. So, let's find out how to answer interview questions properly. I don't know if this works in Japan, too, but I think it would at least impress the interviewers in a good way :-)

10 types of programmers you’ll encounter in the field

Ya, I totally agree that working at work is more productive than surfing the Internet, but I can't ignore this article. Again, only for programmers, don't say I didn't warn you. Emm... I think I fit in the following types:

• The Evangelist
• The Code Cowboy
  

Eating makes you full faster than not eating...

Found a funny article which claims that working at work improves productivity. This must have been conducted by some frustrated managers who see their employees walking or talking around each day in the office not doing what they are supposed to do. Of course I totally agree with it. Perhaps working is 100% more productive than doing research like this, too. :-P

Mama Stands Up for Her Fun with the Kid

The copyrights war begins, again. From this piece of news from ABC News, a mother got a take-down notice from YouTube for her post of below home-made video, featuring her toddler dancing to the music in the background. Can you actually tell what is playing on the background? At least I don't.



This brave mother has fought back with a lawsuit against Universal, who has sent the take-down notice. From the mother, after the incident,

"I'm constantly thinking about what's going on in the background, what's on the TV, what's on the CD player, the characters on my kids' clothes, the characters on the toys that they are playing with,'' she said.

"I'm cognizant of what's going on at every step, instead of focusing on my kids, which is where my attention should be."

Are you a right brainer or a left one?

A friend sent me this link yesterday. I think it is quite fun so here you are.

The Right Brain vs Left Brain

You can find out you are on which side of the camps through a simple experiment. Well, whichever side you are on, I think both are good.... (Now what will happen if both brains perform equivalently well...)

Those who couldn't wait

Took this photo on the way back from a station not-so-near-by. Some of the leaves are starting to turn red. That means autumn is just around the corner. Weather in autumn can be strange. Hot and sunny in day time, cold and windy at night. So you will have to watch out what you wear. Ha... I don't really know what to write about this photo. But anyway, the photo is not original, which is too dark because I didn't adjust the camera to the right settings. I cut out part of it and made it brighter. Sorry about that.

OK. I am going to take a shower now and go to bed (^^) Somebody might be disappointed seeing this post about nothing. Just like I told you, it is nothing important. Haha. Good night.

China Trip Photo Album

Hi, I have added some photos taken during my week-long trip to China on Facebook. Take a look. (^^) And below is a short clip of a panda.

Search and Win some prizes!

Yeah, that's right. Now you can test your fortune by doing searches online with this new search engine called wabbadabba (Why are the names so hard to remember nowadays?). According to their FAQs, they are trying to give back something to the people who are helping them make money. The search results are provided by Yahoo (I wonder why not Google), so those of you who are Yahoo supporters might like it since it gives you a sense of thrill :-P

By the way, I am supposed to be sleeping now since I have an early flight to catch tomorrow. I successfully got into sleep two hours earlier, but woke up feeling some pain in the stomach, thanks to the KFC and ice cream mix I had for dinner :-P But I am OK so don't worry :-)

By the way, recently found an alternative to VMware Server. Let me introduce to you VirtualBox! While both of them are available free of charge for personal use, VirtualBox has an open source edition, too with cut-down functionalities. I tried installing FreeBSD on it and found the results quite satisfying, except for some troubles in the network setup.

OK, I think it is time for me to get back to bed. See you when I am back :-)

Experience some frustrations if your life is too wonderful :-D

Windows RG (Really Good Edition) Online

Have some frustrations!

Well, I think only those who have used earlier versions of Windows will get the sense of humor in this little flash animation. Later versions of Windows which are based on the NT architecture have suffered less of these problems (for example, the notorious BSOD - Blue Screen Of Death).

Well I think this flash game helps recall some good-old-day memories, doesn't it? :-)

It has been a month :P

Ok guys, I am still here alive. Just hasn't been in a mood to post anything :P But that doesn't mean that I do have a mood to post now. So I would like to make this a short post, too.

It seems that many people nowadays are cyberslacking during work time through the Internet. Whether this is beneficial or inefficient depends much on individuals. But I think it is important to hit a balance in between.

On another article, interviewers now like to ask spontaneous questions which don't have a definite answer. Well, I like this style of questions though. So there is nothing to prepare for :P

Have a nice nice day.

Programming might be fun as LEGO!

MIT's Lifelong Kindergarten research group (what a cheerful name ^^) has introduced Scratch, a programming tool used to teach kids how to program. Of course it would be fun for adults, too. Give it a visit and be amazed what the kids are making :-)

Have a nice day scratching (^^)

Microsoft in China

Found an interesting (but a bit lengthy) article about Microsoft's business in China here.

As I once commented in an older post, Microsoft gains a lot of its market share from software piracy. Seem that even Mr. Gates agreed with me.

"It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not," Gates says.

I thought I was young but apparently I am not

Kids say e-mail is, like, soooo dead

I got online since 1997 when I got a 14.4 kbps modem from my sister's friend. I just realised that it has already been 10 years! Wow! How could this be? I thought e-mail was still the simplest technology to keep in touch with people, while SNS was so complicated. But apparently young people think the other way.

In SNS, you have to log in and click around to check what your friends are doing, sometimes it gets so irritating having to check different networks for different people. It reminds me of the time when ICQ was still alive ("What is ICQ? Uncle", some teens might ask :P Give yourself an education here) and Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger were still infants, people tended to use different IMs and you had to keep different clients running at the same time (believe me, you wouldn't like doing this on a Pentium 166 MMX with a mere 48MB RAM).

Luckily, someone came up with all-in-one clients which can communicate with all major IMs and that did help a bit. I did not benefit from that since I have settled down with MSN messenger for a long time.

What is next? A multi-site-compliant SNS, or SNS-for-SNS in short? I am really looking forward to it. :^D

SeedPod Music beta - listen to music while you surf

SeedPod Music beta.

Take this as a search engine specialized in finding music on the web. You can listen to the songs on the site and no download is needed. Enjoy! :-D

Random posts

Have been cleaning up my mail box and read about some interesting news that I would like to share.

First, now you can buy books by chapters, said the people at O'Reilly. Those who know me well know that I like to buy books, now maybe this will save me some money :-) Let's see what else can we split into small pieces and sell. "Give me the sleeve of that shirt." :-P

Then, there is a survey on looking for the next generation search engine after Google. Personally I like the idea of KoolTorch, which focuses on the user interface instead of search results. However, I think they should work a little more on their search results, too.

I think an angel sings like this :-)

She is 6 years old, and her voice is just fantastic :-D

More Free Photos for Public Use :-D

The title says it all.

You can find free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use at Morguefile.com. I am happy to have more materials for making pretty web sites.

Read the FAQs and related terms of use if you are concerned about the rights to use the photos.

Sorry, this is just for programmers :-P

To find out which type of programmer you are.

>>> Programmer Personality Test <<<

This is my result:

Your programmer personality type is:

DLSC

You're a Doer.
You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money.

You like coding at a Low level.
You're from the old school of programming and believe that you should have an intimate relationship with the computer. You don't mind juggling registers around and spending hours getting a 5% performance increase in an algorithm.

You work best in a Solo situation.
The best way to program is by yourself. There's no communication problems, you know every part of the code allowing you to write the best programs possible.

You are a Conservative programmer.
The less code you write, the less chance there is of it containing a bug. You write short and to the point code that gets the job done efficiently.

Enjoy!