The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. Source: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross . In an interview she stated: In Switzerland I was educated in line with the basic premise: work work work. You are only a valuable human being if you work. This is utterly wrong. Half working, half dancing - that is the right mixture. I myself have danced and played too little. ...

如果你和我一樣，不小心把 iTunes 的板型也變成如上圖這樣（其實很容易就做到 XD），你是該慶幸，還好之前有遠見，買了個寬螢幕呢? 還是應該咒罵這個奇怪的板型，把你的眼睛搞得很累，不曉得究竟要看哪呢? 即使它是 iTunes，是 Apple 的產品，是 Steve Jobs 的重量級軟體~ ...

HTML5 Word Cloud/文字雲 ，有趣的玩意兒。丟給它一個 rss feed，它會去挖出裏頭的文字出現頻率來，然後根據頻率大小，秀出不同大小的字來（我猜的，大概吧）。上圖是我把這個網站丟進去的結果 。 ...

Company Description: StorySense is a software startup company that produces language-understanding applications. Established in 2009, our goal is to organize users’ data in ways that are smarter than keyword search, so that it will be easy to organize and find notes, email content, Facebook feeds, as well as other forms of media that we use to capture our memories. We are currently located in Taipei on the beautiful Ren-Ai Rd., and appreciate a happy working environment and a balanced life. Join us! ...

What would you expect from the design of 3D UI in the future smart phones? Google it !

HDR: High Dynamic Range HDRI: High Dynamic Range Imaging I just googled “Taipei HDR” and got someting as following.

kuencula 標準版 3.01 剛剛問世 。它接受一張 2D 圖像（color map）與深度圖（depth map），然後會產生 n 個不同視角的圖出來的程式。 由 kuenbu、sasanala 與我三人從一開始的討論，到後來由 kuenbu 獨自操刀完成。只要你有辦法提供一張圖，然後搭配上另一張深度圖，就可以產生出 8 張（暫定）不同視角下的圖來。其中輸入的兩張圖的大小比例要一樣，建議大一點。深度圖的部分，使用 gray-level 的圖表示即可，最近的值是 255（白色），最遠的值是 0（黑色），單一個 channel，8bits。 ...

第 83 屆奧斯卡剛剛落幕，王者之聲整個就是大勝。但其實在 2011/02/11 當天，一群科技宅男也獲獎了 ! 光是 render queuing system 就有四組人馬獲獎，分別是 Rush , Alfred（現在已由新開發的 Tractor 取代中…）, Queue 與 ObaQ。雖然我心裏頭嘀咕著“不過就是個 render queuing system，居然也得獎了，是已經沒有什麼好頒發了是嗎…XD“，不過還是恭喜這匹宅男呀~ ...