Monthly Archives: February 2010

Missing the point

By Junjie | Published: February 20, 2010
Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov muses about chess and computers: The moment I became the youngest world chess champion in history at the age of twenty-two in 1985, I began receiving endless questions about the secret of my success and the nature of my talent. Instead of asking about Sicilian Defenses, journalists wanted to know about [...]
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Annie Leibovitz’s “Rail Love” for Vogue February 2010

By Junjie | Published: February 14, 2010
Annie Leibovitz’s “Rail Love” for Vogue February 2010
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A Classroom Divided

By Junjie | Published: February 13, 2010
Watch A Classroom Divided Jane Elliott, a teacher in a small, all-white Iowa town, divided her third-grade class into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups and gave them a daring lesson in discrimination. Every student should go through this lesson.
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Aperture 3: I’ll Pass

By Junjie | Published: February 13, 2010
No tethering support for Canon 5D2, or for that matter, any Canon cameras newer than the 350D. Even the inelegant workaround, the Hot Folder Import Script doesn’t work. And even when it does, it is still more clumsy than Lightroom 2 or Lightroom 3’s implementation of Auto Import, requiring an additional script to work. As much as [...]
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What Google’s Nexus One and Custom Made PCs have in common

By Junjie | Published: February 10, 2010
The other reason why I stop buying PCs custom made from Sim Lim is because no one wants to honour the warranty when things go wrong. It’s pretty much the same deal with Google’s Nexus One. Oh, it’s a hardware problem, go to HTC; HTC says no it’s a software problem, go to Google.
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Things Development Status

By Junjie | Published: February 9, 2010
Interesting UI and metaphor design for the development status page of Things. Bad news is that there’s no end in sight for Over-The-Air Sync.
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On Pastor Rony Tan

By Junjie | Published: February 9, 2010
Instead of commenting on and attempting to “debunk” other religions when you know nothing about it, how about just concentrating on preaching what you’re suppose to?
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