It was worthwhile reading and listening to Obama’s nomination speech. He delivered to a very powerful speech. He firstly made his point by giving enough arguments to bring ‘change’ to American leadership, to end 8 years of Bush administration and of republican rule. Secondly, he did give his vision of the future American with [...]
Alt. Text: Oh, your brother is Luke. Sorry, should’ve mentioned that first.
WLOL. It’s so nostalgic. Good ole’ Star Wars. In Return of the Jedi, Leia did say “I know” when he had told her that he loved her.
I just realised that I need to order the Indiana Jones DVDs. I need a dose of Harrison [...]
I took much pleasure in reading my preferred columnist of the New York Times:
A Biblical Seven Years
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Beijing
After attending the spectacular closing ceremony at the Beijing Olympics and feeling the vibrations from hundreds of Chinese drummers pulsating in my own chest, I was tempted to conclude two things: “Holy mackerel, [...]
Greetingz!
Some of you might already be aware that the muslim’s month of fasting (Ramadhan) is about to begin as from Monday (or Tuesday?) and will last for 30 days (i hope its 29…). For a brief about the muslims’ fasting, they are not allowed to consume food or water from before sunrise till sunset. At [...]
Ubiquity does improve the browser experience. I’m in awe! Why? Because, command linguistics will be revived amongst the normals!!!!
Some snaps (click to enlarge) of Ubiquity in action:
Quoting Don Norman.
Command line interfaces. Once that was all we had. Then they disappeared, replaced by what we thought was a great advance: GUIs. GUIs were – [...]
Since some 20 to 30 years ago, modern feminism has emerged in response to the so-called domination of the ‘monstrous’ men over the ‘poor’ women. Nowadays feminism has tremendously changed from its former ‘struggle’ but instead has turned into a totalitarian movement which does not recognized the true equality of men and women despite what [...]
Le 28 août, c’est la fête de Saint Augustin. Cette date évoque en moi plusieurs souvenirs qui m’ont marqué toute ma vie. Je revis encore les séquences du baptême de mon grand père YIPTONG qui s’est tenu à notre maison de Port Louis. Grand Père était malade depuis quelque temps, à cause de son [...]
A while back, a friend introduced me to PicLens. It was still in beta but was usable and so cool. It’s now called cooliris. It’s an extension to FX which turns some sites into a 3D wall. At first, I found no use to it until I laughed piclens on my browser while working on [...]
The world’s attention is now turned to the Democratic Convention happenings in Denver. The nomination and later on the 4th November, the election of the president of the US will impact on our life whether you like it or not. The dominant influence of the largest economic country definitely affects all of us. For this [...]
Destiny => inevitable predetermined events
Coincidence => accidental events {by chance} that seems to have been planned
Did it ever happen to you that you meet someone after ages and you both happen to be in the same country, at the same city, same street, same spot and all at the same time? Or did it ever happen to you that you are [...]