For those who have to create a website for someone, the most exciting part might be to present the websites with the coolest design! But, for many, this is also the biggest headache. Personally, I always start with some good designs created by others. (Although recently I would prefer to use some CMS systems and simply apply a theme to it :P)
So where do you find those inspiring designs? Here comes a complete list of web design galleries, created by Web Design Blog.
Hope this comes in handy :)
Friday, May 11, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
お弁当のブルーズ
朝10時台の新幹線で東京に行くとしたら、最初から冷たいコンビニのお弁当を買って、12時に食べるか。。。。それとも。。。最初は温かくておいしそうに見えるお弁当を買って。。。冷めていくのを覚悟しながらそのおいしさが保つこと期待するのは。。。自由だ～！～！～！～！皆さんそういう経験はありませんか。＾＾
お弁当 is freedom... お弁当 is freedom.... お弁当 is freedom... お弁当 is freedom....
でもな。。。期待のあまりにめっちゃくっちゃまずいときもあるんで。。。そのときは自己責任でお願いします。。。
by 新幹線でまずいお弁当を食べているコーイ（T T)
Sunday, May 06, 2007
SuTree - free video how-to lessons
Now, here is something like YouTube with more useful contents (^ ^) While YouTube is a fine place to kill your time(sometimes over-killed :P), the clips over there are mostly for entertaining purposes. What if you would like to find some video lessons that are more useful for your daily life?
I was looking for more ways to tie a tie yesterday. I didn't look hard enough so all I ended up with was some pictures with text instructions. If I have found SuTree then I would not have to struggle over those mysterious moves shown in the pictures(they certainly look like the Kung-fu figures carved into the wall of Shao Lin Temple :P).
So, here you are, hope you find some useful videos for yourself (^ ^)
http://www.sutree.com/
I was looking for more ways to tie a tie yesterday. I didn't look hard enough so all I ended up with was some pictures with text instructions. If I have found SuTree then I would not have to struggle over those mysterious moves shown in the pictures(they certainly look like the Kung-fu figures carved into the wall of Shao Lin Temple :P).
So, here you are, hope you find some useful videos for yourself (^ ^)
http://www.sutree.com/
Saturday, April 21, 2007
「要らないプライドを捨てなさい。」
Throw away your unnecessary pride.A few years ago, a friend told me that. I don't think that she still remembers that but I do. I kind of agree with her, though.
Pride, while keeps you motivated and feel good about yourself, might hurt you in some situations. Sometimes you don't even realize that it is your pride which hurts you more than any other reasons you struggled to think of.
Following is the list of common unnecessary pride:
- You don't ask questions because you think you know more, or you think you can find out the answers yourself.
- You get upset and angry when you found out that others are doing better than you do, instead of trying to improve yourself.
- You think the world should treat you better because you are just so good. (But you can't really tell how good :P)
Thursday, April 19, 2007
GOM Player - The Ultimate Solution
I finally found the almighty video player. Come welcome GOM Player! It just plays! Everything from WMV to RMVB! Including XviD, DivX, FLV1, AC3, OGG, MP4, H263 and the list goes on. Quick! Dump your current media players and get this one (^ ^)
Btw, I have been sick these two days... (-_-)
Btw, I have been sick these two days... (-_-)
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
Read faster, can you?
Many of my friends read, be it novels, technical documents, research papers, whatever. The 6 tips mentioned in this article, "Double Your Reading Rate" by Scott H. Young might help you to improve your reading skills. Here I jot down the points for my own reference, please refer to his article for more detailed explanation on each point.
- Remember, Reading is Not Linear
- Stop Subvocalizing
- Practice Reading
- Use a Pointer
- Eliminate Distractions
- Find Your Motivation
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Father of Fortran, John Backus dies
Although I have never used Fortran before, I heard quite a lot about it from my friends in the engineering fields. Fortran, short for Formula Translation, is a programming language invented in 1950s, but still widely used in today's modern computing world. It is also the first high-level programming language ever created.
It is sad to know a great person like that has left us (_ _ )
Rest in Peace.
Prior to Fortran, computers had to be meticulously "hand-coded" -- programmed in the raw strings of digits that triggered actions inside the machine. [Technology, CNN.com]The creator of Fortran, John Backus, who also invented Backus-Naur Form(BNF), died at the age of 82. BNF is a way of formally describing the syntax/grammar of computer languages. These two inventions have a great impact of today's IT world.
It is sad to know a great person like that has left us (_ _ )
Rest in Peace.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Microsoft exec said...
If You're Going To Steal Software, Steal From UsAccording to this article from InformationWeek, this is how Microsoft business group president Jeff Raikes thinks about software piracy. I kind of agree with him. Without software piracy, Microsoft wouldn't have their large market share that they are having today in poorer countries. Once the users got accustomed to their products, it would be much easier to sell their products later on when the users get richer and want less troubles(pirated software comes with legal copies of viruses, worms sometimes :P).
Yeah, steal from them, since there is nothing to steal from the open source world.So, what is software piracy really bad for? The open source world! With cheap commercial products being available at a price of a lunch, no one(except those with a conscience) would even care to use the open source products which might come at the same price. So, who is the actual victim of software piracy? I will leave the answer to you.
I couldn't believe I saw snow in March!
Yeah, it is still snowing outside.
I am in my room now. Came back to home quite "early" today after having some chit-chat and poker games with my friends in Gusto(a restaurant), on the way back we saw snow falling from the sky! How amazing! Come on this is already March. It hasn't snowed in March since I came to Japan 6 years ago(or at least I haven't seen it before). The weather is strange this year... Hope that the real spring comes on time and we can see the Sakura bloom soon.
Ok, I've gotta go.
To those who joined the poker games, Otsukaresama and Have a good rest :-)
I am in my room now. Came back to home quite "early" today after having some chit-chat and poker games with my friends in Gusto(a restaurant), on the way back we saw snow falling from the sky! How amazing! Come on this is already March. It hasn't snowed in March since I came to Japan 6 years ago(or at least I haven't seen it before). The weather is strange this year... Hope that the real spring comes on time and we can see the Sakura bloom soon.
Ok, I've gotta go.
To those who joined the poker games, Otsukaresama and Have a good rest :-)
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
MIT course material went public
If you are in the technology world, you must have heard of MIT, the world famous academic institute of technology. Now they are kind enough to publish the materials they use in all their courses online. Feel free to browse around and discover what you might have missed in your own studies :-)
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Video of the fastest car in the world
Somebody might wonder that I should be working around this time and shouldn't have the time to write in blog. Well, I was having my lunch when I saw this clip and I am still having my lunch when I am writing this post :P
Although I am not much into cars but some of my friends are. Just want to share with them this video of the fastest car in the world running at its highest speed. Even the camera didn't manage to catch it properly. Enjoy.
Although I am not much into cars but some of my friends are. Just want to share with them this video of the fastest car in the world running at its highest speed. Even the camera didn't manage to catch it properly. Enjoy.
Monday, March 12, 2007
Wow! Wow! Wow! This is just so cool!
Come on you have to read this! This is just so amazing!
I wonder if your antivirus software would accidentally kills them? (^ ^)
New Technique Stores Data in Bacteria
Artificial DNA with encoded information can be added to the genome of common bacteria, thus preserving the data... According to researchers, up to 100 bits of data can be attached to each organism. Scientists successfully encoded and attached the phrase "e=mc2 1905" to the DNA of bacillus subtilis, a common soil bacteria.
I wonder if your antivirus software would accidentally kills them? (^ ^)
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Save the world while you chat!!!
Hi everybody, now(or later) you can tell your boss that you are helping the world when s/he complains that you chat too much!
* This currently only works in the US.
It is pretty difficult to explain what it is about, so I will leave it for you to find out. This post just serves as a reminder for myself if I happen to forget the URL :P
Tata.
* This currently only works in the US.
It is pretty difficult to explain what it is about, so I will leave it for you to find out. This post just serves as a reminder for myself if I happen to forget the URL :P
Tata.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
A long-awaited Chinese New Year
Since I came to Japan 6 years ago in 2001, I have been spending Chinese New Year in Japan sitting for exams almost every year. This year I finally had a chance to go back to my hometown to celebrate Chinese New Year with my family. Everything is so nostalgic, the firecrackers, the angpows, the food, the people. Although I haven't made it to finish my report before I went back to Malaysia on 10th Feb, thus having to spend the first week doing report at home, I am very contended with this short trip.
After spending the first week doing report, I met up with someone I had wanted to get close to but had never been too close before. We went to shop, went to Old Town(a new cafe chain store in Malaysia), went to a movie, went to karaoke and spent almost everyday together the week after the 1st day of CNY. I even sent her off to work early in the morning. Honestly, I haven't been so energetic for a very long time.
Then, we spent a really sweet night on the beach. Soft music flowing from her mobile phone through the air along with the soothing sea breeze. And the sky was so full of stars(alright, not the whole sky but part of it). The atmosphere was just so perfect! We talked about many things, her life, my life, and the probabilities in the future.
However, time seemed to pass faster when you enjoy it. Soon I had to come back to Japan to continue what I had left off. Well, among the holidays that I spent in Malaysia, this is definitely the one that I will never forget.
After spending the first week doing report, I met up with someone I had wanted to get close to but had never been too close before. We went to shop, went to Old Town(a new cafe chain store in Malaysia), went to a movie, went to karaoke and spent almost everyday together the week after the 1st day of CNY. I even sent her off to work early in the morning. Honestly, I haven't been so energetic for a very long time.
Then, we spent a really sweet night on the beach. Soft music flowing from her mobile phone through the air along with the soothing sea breeze. And the sky was so full of stars(alright, not the whole sky but part of it). The atmosphere was just so perfect! We talked about many things, her life, my life, and the probabilities in the future.
However, time seemed to pass faster when you enjoy it. Soon I had to come back to Japan to continue what I had left off. Well, among the holidays that I spent in Malaysia, this is definitely the one that I will never forget.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Stack Overflow: How to make the stack bigger?
Hi, fellas!
It has been a long time since I have posted something really technical. So here I am again.
We have been asked to implement a quicksort-based selection algorithm and another one based on random sampling to compare them to each other in one of the lectures. But wait. I am not going to tell about these algorithms. What I want to say here is more general, more system related.
Ok, by looking at the algorithms, everyone can tell that the quicksort-based method, because of its simplicity, runs faster in a usual case when the target array size is small. So, in order to be able to say that "the random sampling based method performs better when the size of the data set is large", I have to make sure the sample size is large. And here the problem begins!!!
When you run a program, the operating system puts your program into the RAM. At the same time, it also allocates some spaces for the consumption by the program, in case it needs it. There are two types of allocated memory, stack and heap. I don't really remember but I think that the stack is used for function calls and variables, whereas the heap is used when you allocate memory dynamically by calling malloc().
Stack overflow occurs when your program needs more memory than allocated to it. In my case, I need a lot of space to make sure the data set is large enough to see the difference between the algorithms, so the default stack size allocated by MinGW gcc is not enough for me. I later found out also that stack size allocated to a program is handled by the operating system it is run on, so there is no sure way to turn around this problem. Luckily I came upon this file. It provides exactly what I wanted. I link to it here in case I will need it again some day, and maybe you would find it useful, too.
It is kind of late now so I have got to go.
Good night.
It has been a long time since I have posted something really technical. So here I am again.
We have been asked to implement a quicksort-based selection algorithm and another one based on random sampling to compare them to each other in one of the lectures. But wait. I am not going to tell about these algorithms. What I want to say here is more general, more system related.
Ok, by looking at the algorithms, everyone can tell that the quicksort-based method, because of its simplicity, runs faster in a usual case when the target array size is small. So, in order to be able to say that "the random sampling based method performs better when the size of the data set is large", I have to make sure the sample size is large. And here the problem begins!!!
When you run a program, the operating system puts your program into the RAM. At the same time, it also allocates some spaces for the consumption by the program, in case it needs it. There are two types of allocated memory, stack and heap. I don't really remember but I think that the stack is used for function calls and variables, whereas the heap is used when you allocate memory dynamically by calling malloc().
Stack overflow occurs when your program needs more memory than allocated to it. In my case, I need a lot of space to make sure the data set is large enough to see the difference between the algorithms, so the default stack size allocated by MinGW gcc is not enough for me. I later found out also that stack size allocated to a program is handled by the operating system it is run on, so there is no sure way to turn around this problem. Luckily I came upon this file. It provides exactly what I wanted. I link to it here in case I will need it again some day, and maybe you would find it useful, too.
It is kind of late now so I have got to go.
Good night.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Hi, isn't this a nice desktop?
Wow, I haven't made a post for almost a month... Not that I didn't want to but I have been busy configuring my new desktop computer :P Now you must have guessed that I have finally got a mac but you are wrong :P After much thought I stayed with PC for one more round. Why? Although the entry level for a mac is not that expensive, but when you think that you can get much better specs with a PC, you will give it a second thought.
However, after I have watched the presentation about the new APIs and technologies of the new Mac OS X, Leopard, at WWDC 2006 for developers (you can download it via iTunes for free if you are a ADC member, free registration :D), I really think that the coming Vista is going to lose some share :P
Ok, now let's have a look at my new desktop PC, which has the following specs:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
Memory: PC6400 1GB x 2
Motherboard: ASUS P5B-V
Graphics: Intel G965 Express on-board
OS: Windows XP MCE
Well, these are about all that you need to know :) Now please look at some pictures :D
From a different angle
Running Kubuntu on VMware Player: Login Screen
Running Kubuntu on VMware Player: Kubuntu Desktop
I will try to make some tutorials on how to make your Windows desktop look that way when I find the time. Since it is not exactly that hard, maybe you can just google the keywords yourself and get yourself up and running :P
Till then.
However, after I have watched the presentation about the new APIs and technologies of the new Mac OS X, Leopard, at WWDC 2006 for developers (you can download it via iTunes for free if you are a ADC member, free registration :D), I really think that the coming Vista is going to lose some share :P
Ok, now let's have a look at my new desktop PC, which has the following specs:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
Memory: PC6400 1GB x 2
Motherboard: ASUS P5B-V
Graphics: Intel G965 Express on-board
OS: Windows XP MCE
Well, these are about all that you need to know :) Now please look at some pictures :D
From the front
From a different angle
Running Kubuntu on VMware Player: Login Screen
Running Kubuntu on VMware Player: Kubuntu Desktop
I will try to make some tutorials on how to make your Windows desktop look that way when I find the time. Since it is not exactly that hard, maybe you can just google the keywords yourself and get yourself up and running :P
Till then.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Suki - SUper K Iconizer - Release 1.0
First of all, Happy new year!!!
It is so fast that 2007 is here. Let's hope that this will be a better year for all of us.
And the first good thing in year 2007!!! Suki - SUper K Iconizer - is released!!!
Suki - SUper K Iconizer - is a small tool that helps you convert any supported image files(*.jpg, *.png, *.bmp, etc.) into icon resource files(*.ico) which you can use as favicon in your website or as shortcut icons in MS Windows platform. Besides converting existing files, it also lets you capture part of your screenshot and convert them into an icon.
You can download it from my static website here.
See you again! (^ ^)
It is so fast that 2007 is here. Let's hope that this will be a better year for all of us.
And the first good thing in year 2007!!! Suki - SUper K Iconizer - is released!!!
Suki - SUper K Iconizer - is a small tool that helps you convert any supported image files(*.jpg, *.png, *.bmp, etc.) into icon resource files(*.ico) which you can use as favicon in your website or as shortcut icons in MS Windows platform. Besides converting existing files, it also lets you capture part of your screenshot and convert them into an icon.
You can download it from my static website here.
See you again! (^ ^)
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