Have you wondered what are the top 5 websites that you keep visiting and how much time you…
Lifting a Dreamer (__-){
As I suspected some time back, the infamous Fail Whale wasn’t intended to be named that way –…
SingTel Ang Pow 2011
Naiz 🙂 In case you’re wondering the words say: 新年新姿 (New Year New Pose) 万户喜迎新光纤 (tens of thousands…
Poem: 念奴娇 by 苏轼 (Nian Nu Jiao by Su Shi)
Here’s a famous poem and some English translation for the Chinese challenged. 念奴娇·赤壁怀古 苏轼 大江东去,浪淘尽,千古风流人物。 故垒西边,人道是:三国周郎赤壁。 乱石穿空,惊涛拍岸,卷起千堆雪。 江山如画,一时多少豪杰。…
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
As we wind down the first decade of our new millennium, let’s rejoice, as the world didn’t come…
Moving Chinese encoding (UTF-8) on WordPress from MySQL 4 to 5
Upgraded my WordPress and had my Chinese Characters all gone! After some inspiration from http://alexking.org/blog/2008/03/06/mysql-latin1-utf8-conversion and http://codex.wordpress.org/Converting_Database_Character_Sets I…
Personal Notes: Switch (How to change things when change is hard)
Book Review (more note-to-self, your take away might be different). First, do read the book if you haven’t…
Brain-Brain Otak-Otak: Internship for Leaders
I’m helping Joyce publicize this a bit more, as I think this is a great opportunity for the…
Selected Recordings for Philwinds
Pulling out some of the recordings by Philwinds on YouTube that I like. By the way, if you…
When Help Given is Help Needed
“Today, there’s only one objective: to make the patient feel that they are not alone in this struggle…