Month: April 2005

KDE pager progress

KDE pager is one of the biggest annoyances for people coming to KDE from AfterStep world. But the good news are here:

the pager has gained drag and drop, so you can move windows between desktops using it. in fact, you can drag from the taskbar to the pager as well. crazy cool. next will be to (optionally) show the desktop backgrounds.

The quote is from this post in the blog of Aaron J. Seigo, KDE developer.

The Art of Photography

Here is a complete guide to photography from Canon – The Art of Photography. It covers a whole bunch of topics from the usual composition, equipment and lighting to rarely mentioned ones like light metering, choice of lenses, and simplification of images. Lots and lots of pictures help to illustrate the points. The book is based on Canon equipment, but most of it can be easily applied to other brands.

Subaru team at Chesters bar

Sometimes I wish there was some more information in emails I get. Here is one I received today:

Get the most of “Cyprus Rally 2005” at Chesters
On April 22nd & May 7th take the chance to experience the thrill of driving the SUBARU IMPREZA WRX.
Meet the SUBARU team at Chesters on May 15th.

Chesters Bar website doesn’t have any additional information either.

Authentic Asian helps non-Asians better understand Asian culture

Wuhan is the greatest WordPress theme ever. Wuhan is the theme I use for this website. While changing a few minor bits here and there, I’ve noticed a README file in the theme directory. Here is what it said:

I don’t have a wishlist. I don’t need donations. If you enjoy this, please consider putting a link to
my website on your blog. It’ll be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!

Meng

P.S: To make it even easier for you, here’s the code:

<a href=”http://www.authenticasian.com”>Authentic Asian</a>

=)

*******************************************************************
Theme Name: Wuhan
Theme URI: http://wuhan.authenticasian.com/
Description: Inspired by Macromedia website. Built based on Kubrick.
Version: 0.4
Author: Meng Gao
Author URI: http://wuhan.authenticasian.com/

The CSS, XHTML and design is released under GPL:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php
*******************************************************************

Of course I could not NOT link to the site. While at it I decided to check it out and see what this guy was all about. I expected nothing more than just another blog with a bunch of posts about everything and anything and mostly computers and WordPress. But what I found was totally different. I found something I was looking for for some time now – a high quality blog about Asian (Chinese mostly) culture. Here is an excerpt from the About page:

Asian culture is becoming increasingly prevalent in America and Europe in the recent years. Yet people who use chopsticks, practice kungfu or eat sushi do not necessarily understand Asian culture better than an average American. To this end, I hope to start a website that will help non-Asians better understand Asian culture.

I recognize that there are many ways in which Asian culture can be explained and demonstrated. After much contemplation, I decided to start off with something specific: tattoo or t-shirt designs featuring Asian art or calligraphy.

…

Apart from that, I also plan on writing articles to showcase certain Asian cultural products, such as martial arts, musical instruments or Asian cuisine.

Everyone knows how much I love Chinese culture, so it is almost needless to say that not only did I link to it from this post, but I also subscribed to the RSS feed.