Author: Michael Yung

Michael possessed over 30 years of experience in Information Technology with focuses on complex application development, database technologies and IT strategy. He also spent the last 20 years in Internet technology, eCommerce development / operations, web usability, computer security and Public Key Infrastructure technologies.

And The Winner Is …

Finally a good news … in a very tough month.

Olympus just set up a new show room & office in town. To decorate the new office, they wanted to exhibit photos (a total of twelve) there to show the excellent quality of photos made by its fans with the wide range of digital cameras.

I submitted three photos thru a local user group web site and luckily my photo from Seoul is one of the selected twelve photos !! Check the results here, somehow my photo is the only portrait photo 😎

The winning photo (in color) …

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Travel Guide In a Filofax

Tokyo guide in a filofaxI have dreamed about it for years, a travel guide in a personal organizer … so that you can insert your own stuff into the guide and remove the unwanted information from the guide (e.g. why you need to bring the hotel information with you, if you already reserved hotel rooms in your travel destination ?).

I seriously think there is a big business around it, but now one publisher in Taiwan made my dream come true. Good luck to them !

Check out the Tokyo travel guide details here.

Electric Dreams

1984 is always a special year … it’s the year I left the school, the year Apple introduced the Macintosh and the year with a lot of great movies … “Electric Dreams” was one of them. Only in the ’80s could they make a movie about a computer that falls in love with it’s owner’s girlfriend. And as usual, I love the soundtrack a lot.

Another good music video you don’t wanna miss …

From LifeType to WordPress – 2 Days Later

Some initial thoughts / comments –

  • WordPress:
    • It is easy to use and the administration panel is sleek and great.
    • There are hundreds of plugins to use, but it will take you ages to find the right one.
    • Still have problems with the video plugin.
    • The AJAX effect in administration panel is great as long as you have a big monitor to see all the fancy actions in the other part of your page.
  • LifeType
    • It is a lot more developer friendly, easy to customize.
    • In essence, you can play around with it a lot.
    • 99% of feature is built in, and you don’t need to hunt around for good plugins.
    • The support of YouTube, Google, MetaCafe video is simply great.