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Internet Explorer 7 beta 2
Chatter amongst the web design community is getting louder now with the recent release of Internet Explorer 7 beta 2. With much improved CSS support, there's been concerns that CSS hacks used to 'fix' IE 5/6 are no longer necessary, but might still be picked up by IE 7 and thus rendering the page incorrectly. The IE 7 developers have even made it a point... more »
Minimalist Websites
A while ago I posted a link to a page with a list of websites with minimalist design. However, many pf the sites on that page are now defunct or have redesigned and are not quite as minimal as they used to be. In any case, here my own list of current favourite sites:... more »
An Eye for Annai
Jonathan Klassen and Daniel Rodrigues's animated short, An Eye for Annai, is a really sweet and cute story. It's all beautifully hand-drawn, accompanied with a simple but touching soundtrack of a solo recorder. Go watch it and shed a tear or two. An Eye for Annai Check out Jon's other work at Burst of Beaden too. via chrisdiclerico.com Technorati Tags: animation, design, short film... more »
Free MP3
Colin's got a new guitar and he's recording again. It's a new version of his melody which has gone by several names. "Alone", "Nevermore" which has vocals by his girlfriend Snow, and now "Wishing for Snow" which sounds much better quality and in a different key. Looking forward to the other tunes and the full demo 'tape' (like who uses tapes anymore?).... more »
Disturbing...
Play with Me. Wait for the entire movie to load and click on the glowing objects to interact.... more »
The Harry Potter History Lesson
Nude No More
Ok so I've just given in and ordered a t-shirt I've eyed for quite a while on Threadless. They have really awesome designs and the one I picked out is called "Emotional Trip", not that it represents my current state of mind or anything. I've wanted "Damn Scientists" ever since I've found that site some years back but they never seem to have it in... more »
Dalek Alert
Apparently, the Daleks are in Wales.... more »
Interviewed on Radar
Gmail invitations
I hardly know anyone who still doesn't have a Gmail account by now but if there's anybody who doesn't and wants one, send me an email and a short 50-word-or-less reason why you'd want one and I'll send you an invitation. I have 6 invitations to give out. For those who do have Gmail accounts already, here are some Gmail tips.... more »
The Most Beautiful Apple Hardware Icons
I came across this while browsing a magazine at the newsagents -- the Magnum Opus icon set at widget : widget for Mac OS X contains over 500 icons of every single piece of Apple hardware ever made, even prototypes like the "Knowledge Navigator", and does anybody remember Apple used to make the QuickTake series of digital cameras? Awesome.... more »
Skype
A few people have been suggesting I download this peer-to-peer, free Internet Phone app called Skype for a while already, but I've only just recently installed it just to see what the fuss is all about. It was in beta for quite a while already but version 1.0 was just released on 27 July 2004. I've only tried it once and the quality is pretty... more »
Cow on a tree
This photo was taken quite a while back. New Years' Eve 2003 in fact. Siew Yee, Jen-son and I were wandering around town, and decided to pop over to the Melbourne Docklands to check it out. It's sights like this that remind me why I love living in Melbourne. The quirky arty-fartiness which just makes you wonder "What the...?" And you see it all... more »
Does this make me look fat?
I spent 45 minutes making that self-pic at the Portrait Illustration Maker. Useful for use on IM apps or forums.... more »
Paper Discs
The technological advancements coming out of Japan never ceases to amaze me. This time, it's something a bit high-tech and low-tech at the same time... Paper-based optical discs. With 51% paper content, it allows "a high level of artistic label printing" as well as being easily destructible for sensitive information. The discs use 'blu-ray' technology which squeezes 25GB of data. So much for the paper-less... more »
Simply del.icio.us
I've seen the ingenious domain name del.icio.us mentioned a few times in other blogs and sites I read, but only this evening I actually took the time to check it out, after reading favourable reviews and praise about it. In their words: Delicious is a social bookmarks manager. Using simple bookmarklets, you can add bookmarks to your list and categorize them. I have registered (del.icio.us/jonathanpoh)and... more »
Aussie Rules
I just came back from my first ever Footy (aka Aussie-rules Football) game at Telstra Dome (I was spectating, not playing, DUH). It was a very interesting experience and it was good that I went with my colleague and his friends who explained what was going on and by the 2nd quarter I kinda got the hang of it. It was pretty confusing at first... more »
Scan of Glitz newspaper article
I took a pic of the newspaper with the article of my brother sweeping the awards at Glitz last Sunday when it appeared, but only just got around to downloading the pic to my computer, so here it is. click on image to view full size (popup, 303 KB)... more »
Numbered Shirts Project
That's me on number 18 in the Numbered Shirts Project.... more »
My brother, in the papers..
Wow, Colin was in yesterday's papers, the New Sunday Times. His band "Shirley's Temple" won 1st prize in "Glitz", a local band compo held in Limkokwing recently. He also won 1st prize (another one) for a duet with Shirley (the person, not the band). Way ta go, bro!... more »
My iPods Around the World Submission - Accepted!
Yay.. Our national pride and joy the Petronas Twin Towers has finally made it into the iPods Around the World Gallery at iPodLounge courtesy of your's truly.... more »
Brazilian Nights
A few days ago I watched Terry Gilliam's (of Monty Python fame and director of 12 Monkeys) 1985 movie 'Brazil'. The story reminds me of '1984', but not quite as dark and ominous. Set in a government-controlled, information-overloaded future, Sam Lowry works in huge government beaurocracy, called the Ministry of Information. The movie weaves in and out of the 'real world' and Lowry's dreams/fantasies of... more »
Nineteen Eighty Four in review
A thought provoking review of George Orwell's 1984 [books.guardian.co.uk] and how it is eeriely relevant today and serves as a warning to the current political climate of the world.... more »
Review of X-Men 2
Well I watched it in the cinema this morning (yes, the 11:15am show). It's pretty good I must say. I don't follow the comic books, and I didn't even watch the first movie. The story was pretty so-so, predictable at times (the heroes always win). Effects were pretty fantastic without being too over-done. The Wolverine-Cyclops-Jean Grey relationship tension was quite well played out, I thought,... more »
Spring Cleaning
click for full sized PNG image (196KB) This morning I did a bit of spring cleaning and tidied up my PowerBook's desktop, and also tried playing around with Themes. I installed a really cool one called Milk, using ThemeChanger 0.5. While on the same site I also downloaded and installed Max's Milk Safari Skin, so it blends in nicely with the rest of the system.... more »
mobile blogging
Boogah Smalls has a mini-blog (apart from his main blog) which he posts from his mobile phone. How cool is THAT! Dang I want to learn how to do that now.... more »
Perfume Skincare for the rest of us]]>
On a lighter note, this is what I saw at MidValley Megamall today. I sure I wouldn't want to be caught dead wearing LAMER perfume. Of course I know it's supposed to be La Mer, as in 'The Sea', but hey.. at a quick glance, with their use of all caps and tight spacing between 'La' and 'Mer', I'm probably not the only who... more »
Farewells
I'm back in KL for a few days. Just last night met up with some of my friends from my college and uni days. This will be going on for the next few days until i go back to Ipoh on Saturday, where I'll be having a reunion with my family. Phew. Last nights photos are up. I'll be adding more to the same album... more »
Are you still awake?
I just watched Waking Life for the second time and it is every bit as mind blowing as the first time I saw it. Somehow there seemed to be a lot of stuff I didn't remember, or maybe I just forgot. If you've ever felt disillusioned about life (we all do, at some point). Watch this. It's really deep. Really deep. Deep. "...except in the... more »
H*R
For all you HomestarRunner and StrongBad Email fans (i know both my brothers Colin & Tristan are), The Strong Bad Email Files site has a lot of extra info including easter eggs and additional information and hidden references in each of the Strong Bad Email cartoons. Cool. Oh, and I like The Cheat. The Cheat is cool. He (it?) uses a tangerine iMac. :)... more »
Trekkin' Along
Being bored and restless, I came across Wil Wheaton's blog, by way of Midnight Lily's. For a while i was wondering why "Wil Wheaton" seemed strangely familiar to me, yet I couldn't figure out why. After browsing through his site a bit only did it hit me, "OMG this guy played Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation!". That show was one of my... more »
Cooking up ideas?
I stumbled across this site, the halfbakery quite by accident, and i'm still trying to figure out what it is. Looks quite interesting tho.. From what i have gathered so far, it's a place where you throw out your ideas (half-baked or not) to the open where other people can vote for or against it, giving it some sort of ranking which i have yet... more »
Almost famous
Yesterday my dad was featured in the newspaper. Not just a tiny column and a stamp sized photo mind you, but a full, 2-page center spread in a national daily (archived copy of the page). Pretty exciting stuff. The article was about his hobby called digiscoping, which is digital photography through a spotting scope. Besides that, yesterday also marked the day of the relaunching of... more »
Reunions
Wow yesterday was a day of gatherings and reunions for me.. In the afternoon I had a farewell lunch with my now ex-colleagues at LICT where i was teaching for a year. At night I met up with all my old friends from college days for dinner at TGI Fridays and after that we went to a mamak in Desa Sri Hartamas where yet more... more »
Frugal Google
Google is now beta testing a online shopping search engine called Froogle (damn i love that name). It shows your search results with prices from diffrerent retailers, an image, a brief description and a link to the online retailer. How useful it is for us living outside of the United States of America is still yet to be seen. Many online retailers still do not... more »
Free photos
Here's a useful site that I saw mentioned in a magazine. FreeFoto is a site where you can download and use royalty-free photographs for any non-commercial and personal use. Good for students looking for images for their projects but too lazy :) to take their own. They've got photos categorized in many, many categories and is relatively easy to search and preview them b4 downloading... more »
Hitchhiking on the Internet
while Douglas Adams is dearly missed, the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy is actually made possible with the internet... h2g2. This entry about Original Swedish Ginger Snaps (Pepparkakor) really cracked me up. And since we're on the topic of Swedish stuff, there's an enlightening article on IKEA too... and yet another on making swedish meatballs (somewhere...) yummy...... more »
EDM Pixel Lecturers Series 3
And now presenting the 3rd and final Series of Pixelated EDM Lecturers. ... more »
EDM Pixel Lecturers Series 2
Series No. 2 of EDM lecturers is done. Have a look and see if you can recognize any faces. ... more »
EDM Pixel Lecturers Series 1
My first effort at making pixel graphics (well not if you include the gif text i use on this site). These figures are some of my colleagues -- lecturers in the EDM department in LICT. ... more »
Me as a South Park character?
Wayfarer did a South Park caricature of me. Go make your own South Park character of yourself, or other people you know. :-)... more »
5k web design competition
the 5k web design competition is on again!... more »