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Information Visualization: Why does it matter?
Often times I get discouraged, doing what I do. I mean, I design user interfaces and I document them so that people more proactive than I (The “Do-ers”) can build them. It’s a cool job; I love what I do and I don’t think that many people can say that about their jobs. All I…
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Changing Daylight Savings in Gentoo
I’ve had constant problems with keeping time on the server up and running. So much so, that I installed a Network Time Protocol (NTP) service to ping the NRC’s time server on every reboot. With the US shifting Daylight Savings Time (DST) a month back, I had to do some futzing around with the server…
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Haiku of the Day
Jen spontaneously authored a Haiku after dinner today: My belly so full. Waistline ever Expanding About to burst. BOOM! -T
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My Orchid plant isn’t doing to well
For those of you not aware, I’ve always been pretty good at taking care of plants. Something I picked up from my mother I guess. Prior to moving out of my parent’s house, I took care of most of the house plants. I even planted and raised an apple tree in the back yard back…
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Why AJAX failed
I read this at eWeek.com: Google’s Bosworth: Why Ajax Failed. The mistakes, he said, were misperceptions of the realities of the way people would use the technology. For instance, Bosworth said a cardinal rule of his is KISS, or, in his words, “Keep It Simple and Stupid.” Gestures like tooling, icons, right-click and drag-drop are…
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Gentoo: Is it good for Servers?
I use Gentoo Linux to power this website. I chose it because: I wanted to learn about Linux It has a great package management system I figure I can make the most out of the hardware (dual-P3 600 MHz, 1GB RAM), by compiling my programs with the correct platform I could configure the system the…
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Computer Woes
This past weekend, I ran into some unexpected computer problems with my beloved workstation. It wouldn’t boot. I managed to recover the HDD using Knoppix, a convenient Linux Distro that uses a LiveCD to install (you boot it from a CD-ROM and it runs in memory). What is especially impressive about this system is that…
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Kinners Unite!
Great cake., originally uploaded by Tai Toh. Not only was the cake delicious, its message was spot on. We had a pre-New Years get-together at John and Hsin-May’s house. The cake was wonderful. It’s hard to believe that it’s been 10 years since I started at Waterloo. Crazy. -Tai
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Corynn
Corynn, originally uploaded by Tai Toh. I love the look on her face. It’s just so cute. On December 4th, 2006, we welcomed Corynn to the world. Cort and Lynn are proud parents. The morning of New Year’s Eve, Jen and drove to Cort and Lynn’s house with some home-made turkey soup and home-made cookie…
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Christmas Passes
Yet again, another year has gone by. Damn. Many “firsts” happened this year. Jen and I moved in together. We purchased our first home. We got married. What else is left? Some goodbyes too. We saw the passing of Jen’s grand parents. Cris is leaving us too…although to the fine city of Chicago, Illinois. I…