It makes some aspects of my life routine more efficient. Take ordering food for pick up as an example:
Old routine:
- drive to XXX restaurant.
- order food
- wait
- walking back and forth, more waiting
- food’s here. Pay.
- drive home
New routine:
- call Goog411 to connect me to the restaurant
- order food via phone
- play games, read news feed, watch Doraemon
- 15 minutes later, drive to restaurant
- pay
- drive home
Disregarding the fact that I have a rather sad life, this works really well and the 411 service is free.
on usual days, i note with mild disgust the type of news that is deemed worthy of our front pages and page threes. and by that, i mean zoo staff carrying a crocodile in for mating, ministers of different races in batik shirts all smiley and muhibbah as they ‘lou sang’ together and random wonder kids who can do form 5 add math problems. i dont know, someone please tell me - is this the kind of stuff that should rightly take precedence in our mass media, a mass media that has a responsibility to educate and inform a country of 24 million?
- Su Ann
A good read on the current state of news reporting in Malaysia. I guess the only sad part is we need a 18 year old to write and tell the obvious. But hey, at least we didn’t have Tomkat wedding on the front page.
because you never know what type of crazy, curvy sans serif fonts users might have in their bag.
Set the proper font family, make it precise. Generic type should only be used as a last alternative, for improved robustness.
font: 82%/150% sans-serif; Bad
font: 82%/150% Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; Good
I love his dancing and how he runs into pole.
I love robots that blow up when faced with a paradox.
I love he is dorky and lame and sucks at everything and doesn’t know it.
Check out the lovelines project by the dynamic duo ~ Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar.
they should be JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan, and Ajax Design Patterns by Michael Mahemoff.
The former is like an encyclopedia for javascript. It has almost everything, even the meanest, baddest codes (I meant it in a good way). A good reference book. For anyone who has been coding for a significant while, you probably already realize that coding is usually the easier part. Design pattern is the tricky one, however. A good pattern design goes a long way. That’s where Michael Mahemoff’s book comes in. Some of my favorite methods include submission throttling, prefetch ajax and Guesstimate.
While working on a Google Maps mashup, this data suddenly popped up in the browser. Can’t help but chuckle. We are buried by this huge chunk of information data around us that the true beauty lies in being able to look for a pattern and displays it in a way that makes sense, or not. Some people do it better than others.
Btw, the season finale of Heroes was so good just now, I have to admit a few tears were dropped. You just gotta love Suresh’s narration.
