Following on my take on Google Maps Bangkok, I've started playing with Geobloggers today. The idea is that you tag your Flickr images with geo-location tags, and it can be viewed as overlays on Google Maps. This can work as a personal travel map (by viewing only images tagged by yourself) of see what other pictures were taken near yours. (using word tags doesn't always achieve this, as different people could use different words for the same place)
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For the last 2 days, I have been having an itch for a new laptop. They just seem to come rather cheap here, with so many combination that one's needs can almost certainly be fullfilled. I was reading reviews and doing reseach like crazy, like what I would have been doing had I really going to buy it.
Thing is, I am not.
The only time I do not have access to a work or home computer is when I am on the road. And that time is used either for driving (duh!) or sleeping. And my 2 desktops are much more capable than the laptop. So why?
Apology for all that has left comments in the last few days. I just upgraded this site to Drupal 4.6, and one of the things that went unnoticed is the settting that force all comments to be approved first before appearing on the site. I just fixed this, so it should appear right away again.
On a different note, that mild pre-travelling panic attack hast just kicked in. After a whole evening of packing, now I feel I must have forgot tons of things and I'm suppressing the urge to open the luggage and check it all over again.
What's the chance of having your webhost fuck up your site 2 times in 3 months? Pretty high, if your name is Chris. You are seeing this site as it was around late February 2005.
Lots of things need to be done to get it up running again. Lucky Songkran is coming up. Burning your brain in front of the screen is better than getting your eyeballs pushed into your skull with those water weapons of mass destruction.
Oh, am I the cranky one today.
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Two funny articles I read this morning:
* Making fried egg with Athlon XP
* Microwave-oven mobile phone
The first one is real, the latter—at least for the present—not.
Today I picked up a new PC from pantip plaza. A Pentium 3.0 with 1 GB ram and the most complicated motherboard I have ever faced.
It comes with 4 serial ATA & 6 IDE support. (4 of that on RAID), 7.1 stereo sound, 8 USB2.0, and then some. This is my first time with RAID and it took me a while to realize you need RAID driver before WinXP can see the devices. To me, RAID is a thing for servers. What it is doing on the same board as a 7.1 stero, I could not guess.
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Another meme? Yes, please! This one is _contracted_ from no-i.com.
Type each letter of the alphabet into your browser, and see which sites comes up in the list:
A is for Adium X I don't even use this, or own Macs :S
B is for Bali Restaurant A test site for mom's restaurant
C is for Chonnikan stumbled on this a few days back
D is for Drupal Engine for ichris.ws
E is for Engadget กิเลส
F is for Flickr photo galore
G is for Gmail no introduction needed
H is for hi5 not really into these half-ass social networking
I is for iChris.ws what else?
J is for Jnewland some blog
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Two days ago ichris.ws was aggressively indexed by a bot named "Creative Commons 0.06-dev". So I decided to look it up. First I thought it was spam bot borrowing the creative commons name, but this turns out to be a genuine one. The bot is facilitating the new "Creative Commons Search":http://search.creativecommons.org/ (beta).
The search engine indexes only content (text, images, videos) licensed under creative commons licenses. This means the creators "retain copyright":http://creativecommons.org/learn/licenses/fullrights on the work, but intend to share those content with the public. And you can use it, as long as you give due credits, without having to pay or ask permission.
There are different "options":http://creativecommons.org/learn/licenses/ an author can choose from while releasing a work under CC license. Examples are
* whether the work can be used commercially
* whether derivatives can be made out of the work
And the Creative Commons Search will display these conditions with each search result, so you know exactly what you can or cannot do with it.
Creative Commons is somewhere between 'all right reserved' and 'public domain'. If it's right for you, start "tagging":http://creativecommons.org/license/ your content under CC.
Note: Photos on "Flickr":http://www.flickr.com are, by default, copyrighted to the author. But you can choose to have them "CC licensed":http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ too.
รางวัลโนเบลสาขาสันติภาพปีนี้ ขอมอบให้แก่คุณฮุ้ย เนื่องด้วยคุณประโยชน์ที่ได้ build Firefox บน win32 ด้วย patch ตัดคำภาษาไทยให้ได้ใช้กัน
หลายๆ เว็บที่เคยเข้าใจว่า ทำ html/css มาไม่ดี เอาใจ IE พอดูใน firefox แล้วหน้าตาเละเทะ ปรากฏว่ากว่าครึ่งนึงไม่ได้เป็นปัญหาที่ html แต่ปัญหาจากการตัดคำ (อย่างเช่น ผู้จัดการรายวัน )
ในที่สุดวันนี้ก็มาถึง เมื่อเช้านี้ได้รับอีเมล์ฉบับนึงใน Gmail ส่งจาก hotmail account ของเพื่อนคนนึง เพิ่งตื่นก็เลยกดอ่านตามปกติ ไม่ทันคิด จนผ่านไป 2-3 นาทีถึงรู้สึกตัว ว่าเฮ้ย เมล์นี่มันภาษาไทยนะ ทำไมอ่านได้?
ก่อนหน้านี้มีปัญหามากกับการอ่านเมล์ภาษาไทยที่ส่งจาก hotmail ต้อง forward ไปที่ fastmail เพราะ Gmail ไม่ยอมอ่านอย่างอื่นนอกจาก unicode ส่วน hotmail ก็ตั้งค่าเริ่มต้นเป็น iso-8859-1 เวลาส่งไปก็เหมือนกัน ส่งจาก Gmail อ่านไม่ออก ส่งด้วย fastmail ถ้าตั้งเป็น unicode ก็อ่านไม่ออก ต้องเลือก tis-620 เองทุกครั้ง
