SpiderOak is a nice cross-platform backup application. I have been using it for a few months already. It sync’s your files to their online servers in the background. However, I find it hard to cancel an uploading file process. What happened to me was I left a huge file on my desktop (I sync’ed my desktop folder), then that giant file was being uploaded quietly in the background. One day I happened to check the upload queue and realized what happened. To my surprise there was no easy way to cancel that upload from the gui! ...

This video is pretty well done. It’s a 3D video on the packets, routers, etc. [youtube &hl=en_US&fs=1&] Warriors of The Net http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve7_4ot-Dzs

I am glad that someone actually tried to do a small research on this topic, though to be fair the population size is only about a thousand. But I guess if the population size were to increase the result would be worse… Most HK students worry only about their studies at school, that is if they study at all. School work is stressful already that consumes most of they time. Anything outside of school is considered unproductive, and can be dealt with later. There isn’t much incentive to read news unless it’s for personal interest. The high competition in the job market also contributes to this phenomena. ...

A nice video on comparing bubble sort and quick sort. [youtube &hl=en_US&fs=1&] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxENKlcs2Tw Another video on merge sort. Nice job! [youtube &hl=en_US&fs=1&] ...

Just heard from a friend about this movie called " Freedom Writers". I then went on to watch the trailer… wow… I mean, first of all it’s a true story. Second… you just gotta watch it! It’s about gang fights and racial tensions. This teacher was committed to place herself in it to make a difference. It’s easy to say, but you will get a much better idea the kind of life-or-death risk she placed herself in. ...

This is a funny little clip. You need to have watched Pixar’s “Up” to understand the humor of it. ;) [youtube &color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF5KWMX3u4Y&feature=player_embedded

Some guy made a flowchart for this day-to-day problem. post

[youtube &hl=en&fs=1&] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsFBkh3nxAM

That’s fun lecture to attend! [youtube &color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] 2009 Halloween Class Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKviYiZhtZY&feature=player_embedded

My windows laptop has been getting slower and slower… to the point I cannot turn a blind eye to it anymore. Today I happened to try out this tool called CleanUp. It deleted 3.4 Gb temporary files on my laptop!!! I didn’t know I was carrying junk with me all these times! I did some more searches and there are actually a few more “cleaning” programs out there. You can try them out your own at this link. I don’t know which one is the best. ...