Archive for January 2009

新年快樂!

A very late 新年快樂給我的中國朋友. So pop open a bot­tle of 白酒, eat some noo­dles, and cel­e­brate the year of the ox. Also, we Eng­lish speak­ers never pass up an oppor­tu­nity use non-latin char­ac­ters. Eng­lish char­ac­ters are just plain bor­ing (click on the ‘Eng­lish lan­guage’ link in the left navigation).

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Screen lock keyboard shortcut for your Mac

I’ve always been slightly annoyed by the lack of a key­board short­cut to lock the screen on my Mac. There are sev­eral pop­u­lar solu­tions out there (screen­saver acti­vated by hot cor­ners, a lock icon in menu bar, etc), but I really missed my Windows-style Win­dows key+L key­board short­cut. I’ve finally found a suit­able solu­tion with […]

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Warna

Warna, acrylic on can­vas, 48 in. x 48 in. In an attempt to be more cre­ative, I’ve decided to try my hand at painting—something I’ve wanted to try for a long time. It was both frus­trat­ing and reward­ing. In my true cheap and stub­born fash­ion, I was even able to cob­ble together home­made stretcher bars and […]

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