Blog from the Loft

Programming is not Learning API [tech]
How many “programmers” tell us they can program
because they learnt some vendor’s API, typically
MS Windows, or now J2SE or J2EE ? Programming
is not the ability to pop up a dialog box or
display some widgets on a screen. It is about
data structures and algorithms.

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Letterbox, Winamp, Geiss
Now that I am running W2K with DirectX, I downloaded the Geiss visualization plug-in and have not stopped playing with this thing since. One interesting note is the effect of letterboxing the
display. The black border really helps focus the display itself. I am not sure if this is because
I watched and like so [...]

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Look Ma, No Wires !
I am making this blogger entry on my laptop, using my 802.11b wireless access connection
to my LAN at home. Pretty impressive huh !

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Beat Ad Beaters
Here is a thought. In a TV commercial, play a mini version of
the commercial at slow speed in a picture-in-picture window, so that
when someone fast forward through the commercial on a VCR, they
will see your commercial at normal speed !!
(c) www.pkshiu.com

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Windows 2000 [tech]
Saturday turned out to be a hacking day. It kept raining in the afternoon. So I decided
to install Windows 2000 on my old Tecra laptop. The installation was amazingly
easy. Took 2 hours, but most of that time is just waiting for the system to copy
files and install. Everything was detected automatically, even on [...]

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Flash Movie of the day
The staff fighting and ending sequences are the best: Xiao Xiao Production No.3.

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Tech : 18 inch LCD monitor prices drop
to around US$1200 to US$1400 now, down from the US$3000+ price tag.
Note that an 18 inch LCD monitor has a larger display area then
a normal 19 inch CRT monitor.

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New Nokia WAP Phone 3210
You know the minute I go buy a piece of the latest high tech toy, they come out with a new one. Now that I have the Nokia 8890 world phone, which does everything best except serving the Web, Nokia announced the 8310 phone that supports WAP. Oh well.

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