becoming

FFR:

Reflection Effect in Powerpoint 2003 or earlier.

21世紀，科技發達，資訊一click即到的年代，

突然收到這樣的一封「飛鴿傳書」：

除了驚嘆「天外有天、人外有人」之外，

我彷彿就是聽到有聲音對我說：

「慢D、慢D…要慢D…」

A major face-lift on the site. What do you think? I like it very much since it is clean and compact. As people’s monitors size are getting bigger, I think a 3-column layout should be okay compare to a few years back.

I spent most of the time dealing with the smallest of things. Do you see the tiny picture on the top right? I have to use GD to crop and resize the image on-the-fly (yes, it randomly picks from my gallery each time there is a refresh call), so that it will look nice from a rectangular shape photo originally, to a 42 by 42px square eventually.

If you notice anything not working properly, please let me know.

Trillian, Firefox, AVG, Audacity, 7-zip… these are superior alternatives to a lot of $$ and/or crappy software you might use everyday.

Here is a recent list provided by LifeHacker.

To fight the super-annoying spam comments, I am now using wp-spamfree. With it, you don’t need to enter any word or character from the captcha image anymore!! Seems like it is working pretty well, for it says that WP-SpamFree has blocked 184 spam comments since I installed it yesterday!

Can you do me a favor and do some comment-testing to see if it is really working properly?

Update: Thanks Chung for suggesting, I am now giving Akismet another try.

Dr. Dean Ornish shares new research that shows how adopting healthy lifestyle habits can affect a person at a genetic level. For instance, he says, when you live healthier, eat better, exercise, and love more, your brain cells actually increase. And new findings show that a healthier lifestyle can turn off disease-provoking genes and turn on the good ones.

If you made the decision to use powerpoint as your tool to do presentations, for heaven’s sake, learn how to use it!!! I mean, learn how to use it effectively and engagingly.

Just a couple pointers:

Instead of being just a video game couch potato, or spoil your children and turn them into the next video game couch potato, take a look at how amazing it is when creativity, knowledge and a compassionate heart come together can do with a simple device, and change the lives of many.

Johnny Lee demos his amazing Wii Remote hacks, bending the $40 game part so it powers a digital whiteboard, a multitouch display and a head-mounted 3-D viewer.

[TED, Johnny Chung Lee]