有熊式: 2007/02

2007/02/27

Steam Cloud: characters sheet

It is said to be the beginning of a new era, nightmares and reality begin to merge into one gigantic mysterious steam...
一片謎樣的蒸汽中, 現實與夢魘的界線變模糊了...
Steam Cloud: 人物設定稿 (wallpaper)
© TH Yu

2007/02/24

Standard Mandarin romanization system

Driven by my curiosity of how my name was spelled in Roman (Latin) alphabet, I had a quick look online and found the fact that most Taiwanese names were spelled upon common but incorrectly applied Wade-Giles system (威妥瑪拼音/韋式拼法) before 2002's official Tongyong Pinyin (通用拼音) rivalry with mainland China's ISO official Hanyu Pinyin (漢語拼音).

☛ Comparison of Chinese romanization systems

2007/02/22

Portfolio Flash embed 'bug' fixed

Previously I changed my portfolio page contents vertical centring from < table > to a CSS method recommended by World Wide Web Consortium. I also changed embed method from < embed > to < object > to meet the W3C standards. Than I realised that the simplified < object > is not supported by IE. A solution to this issue was found on A List Apart: Articles: Flash Embedding Cage Match with a link to the very useful Flash embed test suite. The method I use now is so called 'The nested-objects method (with Internet Explorer conditional comments)'.

2007/02/21

The Science of Sleep

The Science of Sleep: Trailer entry
Once again Michel Gondry has done a wonderful film about dreams and the heart...

It's been weird, just like watching myself...
watching myself...
watching myself...
watching myself...
watching myself...
(Switch off the Time Machine)

By the way: The Science of Sleep - The Official Site

2007/02/19

Five Ways To Save The World

BBC: Five Ways To Save The World

"Once you start managing nature you have to continue to manage nature, there is no use hoping that it will restore itself to a new equilibrium set up by humans." -Professor Ian Jones-

Futuristic fleet of 'cloudseeders'
Creating a 'sulphur screen'
Global sunshade
Multiplying the ocean's CO2 guzzlers
Artificial trees: A green solution?

Gates vs. Jobs + Vista vs. OS X

{Gates vs. Jobs}
{NYT: Did Microsoft rip-off Apple Mac OS X in Windows Vista?}

Two funny videos. Steve looks so cunning against Bill in the first one.

Pyramid Head Gub

Astrid has turned the terrifying Pyramid Head into a lucky symbol 'Gub'. It says: stroke it's back each day and receive plenty of good luck!

The Little Prince in Mazes (迷宮裡的小王子) 1

Today, my life has been changed forever. Because I met the Little Prince. As we all have heard of the Little Prince, who has made a visit to the Earth from a distant star. This is the story about the Little Prince I know.

The Little Prince once told me why he is on this foreign planet, but I always seem to be forgetting. Perhaps he didn't actually tell me that 'WHY'. Perhaps what he really told me is that he is forgetting WHY HE IS HERE. Sometimes I think the Little Prince just made the whole thing up, that in fact he is not from another planet or star. He might even be in fact just like you and me.

I said to him: "If you could accept the fact that the Earth is your home, you would have been happier."
He replied to me: "You have absolutely no idea how beautiful the sky is at my planet. The Earth is so boring and flat."

I know the Earth is not flat. We all know that. But I really don't know how beautiful the sky is on his planet. I didn't want to argue with him and I don't like to. There are already too many fights occurring every second on this planet. I simply wish to spend my time to imagine the sky on his planet, rather than arguing if the Earth is REALLY flat or not. But I really don't like that when the Little Prince begins to collecting bricks.

© TH Yu