Back to Usual Work

And a really hectic few weeks had passed with me preparing materials, teaching and arranging for other speakers, in a class of secondary school student an introduction signal processing. It was also my first ever attempt in teaching a class of students (other than 2) with completely zero programming experience how to program in Python.

While exhausting, I had a great time with the students and I definitely think that I could do a far better job in teaching. Perhaps I will make available my teaching materials here after some tidying up.

Rewarded myself, and my dear, with a relaxing weekend together for walk in an old, to-be-torn-down estate in Toa Payoh, with one of the last few sand pit playgrounds and the assembly of my first RC airplane!

Mailboxes, a photo by moodoki on Flickr.

Dragon!, a photo by moodoki on Flickr.

My New Toy, a photo by moodoki on Flickr.

An Engineer's Rant

I had been furious this month, and accompanying it came some cynical laughter at certain failures. (I know I shouldn't laugh. I'm reflecting on it..)

Slow down, do more, walk further.

Doing too much in a rush today could just mean that you'll have to rush more in the future.

Quality should come from within, not as an external requirement. Knowing the quality evaluation process, we can always package crap in an air-tight container for the QA to prod, but when exposed to the real world, it would probably blow up in your face.

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Random rants I hope project managers will take seriously :s Or perhaps this is the wrong 'big picture'.

TextMode

Text Mode Love

It's strange. Computing power is cheap, I love to work on photos, I work with 3D rendering and computer graphics and I do research on computer vision. Yet, the interface that I love to work on most is still the text based interface.

A few days ago, I crawled out of my cave and found that Google has a wonderful command line data tool called googlecl that allows you to access Blogger, Calendar, Docs, and many other Google services from the command line! I promptly downloaded it, only to discover (a pleasant surprise) that it's in the macports port list! (It's also in Ubuntu's apt repository). So everything is just an 'apt-get install googlecl' or a 'port install googlecl' away:)

Together with markdown, now I can make my posts from the command line as well
:)

And here's the first post from the command line, and perhaps future posts as
well :) But, I'll still have to figure out the best way to embed images from
flickr :s