野柳地質公園 is located in the far east side of Taipei county. It is very much like the geopark in Hong Kong. Guess we both share similar properties in our lands and rocks.
The scene in Yehliu Geopark is quite awesome. There’s rocks eroded into all sorts of shapes. One of them is called the Queen Head. It’s the icon of the whole Yehliu (野柳) town.
It’s a good place to go if you have exhausted most downtown attractions and want a day out 
Some pictures to share…
TEDx Taipei is over for more than a week. After the event Jason and Kevin went to farewell speakers leaving the town.
I joined them to meet 吳晟老師 in Taipei Main Station and had a chat with him. It’s definitely once-in-a-life-time chance to talk to a living scholar and hearing him talking about his poems and philosophy.
He explained why his talk in TEDx Taipei is a little deviated from his planned script. The recent 國光 event has bothered him a lot. It would not be him if he didn’t talk about it.
When he made the TEDx talk, I actually didn’t like it that much because I found it a little over emotional and unnecessarily involved too much praise to his son’s work.
After hearing from 吳老師, I do get a better understanding. He really loves his poems a lot because everyone of them has a story behind. Every poem means something to him. I felt so motivated by his genuine love to the nature. He urged for sustainable development and respect to farmers and their lands.
If you wanna have a taste of 吳晟 x 吳志寧, you can wait for the release of the TEDx Taipei video or get the CD.
This is hugh!! Prof. Noam Chomsky – the living scholar is in Taipei for a public lecture on 10th August!
I am gonna extend my flight for a few days for him!!!
Hey people~ I am in Taipei City helping out (tiny tiny little bit) on TEDx Taipei 2010.
This city is as nice as it was 8 months ago when I went for the TEDx Taipei 2009. I do feel fresh about stuff around. After all, this is my first time leaving the city for more than 6 months in the past 2 years.
TEDx Taipei is in its final stage of production. We just had the ultimate all-vendor meeting this Monday discussing the setup of the venue and clarify stuff. Man… the production this time is like 987923749237 times more professional than before. Lighting, stage design, audio, internet live steaming, catering, exhibition booth… You can get to see a list of some of the sponsors and parties working in this event here.
Really look forward to the event!
There are still some tickets left. Visit tedxtaipei.com to get yours if you wanna physically witness it.
No one dies because they couldn’t pre-order an iPhone from AT&T site.
Same thing… No one dies because there’s bugs in my app. So, don’t nag me if my app has got bugs… It’s not a fatal mistake. Don’t make it sound like a life and death problem.
I am sorry that the bugs embarrass you. But what I can do, at best, is apply a fix.
End of my rant. Period.
Sounds immature and irresponsible. Before you fire back, think again… There are ways to avoid mistakes. But shit could happen no matter how perfect the system is. (I am not saying we shouldn’t improve a process to avoid mistakes. I still strive for engineering excellence.) When shit happens, the best we can do is fix it as quickly as we can. We can’t undo the damage that has been made.
So, chill out… accept it as fact and move on.
I am sure Apple will still sell a few million iPhone 4 in the first month even AT&T system was down for a few hours. Do u get it?
Bumped into this documentary film – Manufacturing Consent in iTunes when I was browsing another documentary – Art & Copy.
I didn’t know Noam Chomsky before, nor did I know his work in linguistic, politics, etc. (You can say I am ignorant ) This is my first exposure to his work. I am just stunned by his very critical thought and analytical power. The film itself is about his view on the failure of american media industry and how the general public is deceived from truth.
Solely reading the film description on iTunes or Amazon may lead you to think that the film is trying to spread conspiracy theory. But that’s totally not the case. Instead, he showed what he think causes the problem and quoted examples and explains how. It’s actually the failure of the whole media mainstream media industry which is his bigger concern.
No matter you agree on his view or not. I think his bigger message is… we have to remain critical and look for truth of the whole story because what we are presented are always biased to the stance of institutions which present it.
At the end of the film, he concluded…
“Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain, which is accepted as legitimate, even praiseworthy, on the grounds that private vices yield public benefits, in the classic formulation. Now, it has long been understood, very well, that a society that is based on this principle will destroy itself in time. It can only persist, with whatever suffering and injustice that it entails, as long as it is possible to pretend that the destructive forces that humans create are limited, that the world is an infinite resource, and that the world is an infinite garbage can. At this stage of history either one of two things is possible. Either the general population will take control of its own destiny and will concern itself with community interests, guided by values of solidarity, sympathy and concern for others, or alternatively there will be no destiny for anyone to control…In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured, they may well be essential to survival.” (quote from Z Communication)
Anyway… it’s a real great piece with deep meaning and inspiration way more than what my crappy English can describe here.
You can get the film from iTunes. (someone put it on Google Video as well. Google the name of the film) I highly recommend it. Hope you like it too.
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I still remember my graduation day back some years ago… It is a wonderful moment.
Headnix has got mentioned by ZDNet in the US. Blogger David Morgenstern featured Numbric and Finger in his post “Apps that turn your iPhone/iPod Touch into an external peripheral”. The post is more a featured mention rather than a detail review. In the post, he highlights the major motive why we create Numbric and Finger which is to serve people’s need in numeric data and Chinese character input.
You can find the post in The Apple Core – the blog section of ZDNet focusing on Mac, iPhone and other Apple related stuff.
This is my first. My first time being mentioned by mainstream US tech media. David is complete stranger to me. (He’s in my 3rd degree connection according to linked-in though) The fact that a pro-tech blogger/journalist stumbled upon my apps and decided it’s worth making them a featured mention in his blog post is such a great recognition and encouragement to me.
This is very much like saying “Headnix can deliver great products!!”
You may think I exaggerate the incident. It’s just a blog post anyway. They post dozens of post every week. Let me explain a little bit….
Headnix is totally an indie Mac company. We don’t have any funding from VC or government. Everything we do is pure and organic. We simply love the apps we develop and we hope people like them too.
Developing a product is not easy. While writing tablet and wireless number pad are not new ideas, my interface designer and I did put a lot of effort in a lot of details… Say, why Numbric is in landscape? What makes Finger (and Numbric too) so easy to setup? And more…
The process of developing Finger and Numbric is a typical tough indie story. On one hand, you need to take project from clients keep cash flow healthy. On the other hand, you need to squeeze time coding Finger and Numbric. Can you imagine how bad it is… you work over night to get client’s work done by deadline. Then, in weekend and other free time, you code your own product. In some months, because you are too busy with coding, you don’t get time to work on sales and pitches and you end up having very very little income for a month or so…
You need a lot of love and commitment to what you are doing!
Tomorrow is my 30th birthday. Having a recognition by a pro tech media at this milestone… man… I really can’t tell how complicated the feeling is…
Just wanna thank my parents, Bonnie and Belle who trust my ability building great applications even before anything is done. Dr Andrew Choi, my most respected professor who taught me C/C++ programming in HKU and, most importantly, converted me to Mac. All my buddies who spent nights with me for beer and coffee brainstorming and refining ideas. Last but not least, BeansBox team and Vanilla Design team for the contribution to user interface design/web design/marketing for Finger and Numbric respectively.
BTW, if you wanna read in-depth review, you can check out posts by Vinko for Finger and Numbric.
What’s your favorite Chinese dim sum? Shrimp Dumping? Cha Siu Bun? Or, chicken feet (鳳爪)?
The 404 podcast talks about Chinese dim sum earlier. The first segment is hilarious 
Went to Pecha Kucha Night Hong Kong #10. Well, I went to this event series for several times already. It’s just getting worse and worse…
Reasons:
I run the CocoaHeads event in Hong Kong. I understand that the speech quality is, very often, not in the host’s hand. A guest can be very good at its expert domain but sucks in public speaking.
But… there’s some basic things we can do about it…
I will probably still go for Pecha Kucha event in Hong Kong cause I still wanna meet designers. But I’ll set my expectation to the speeches very very low.
Bill So - iPhone / Mac Developer in Hong Kong. His products include Clip It! and Finger and Numbric. They are distributed under his company Headnix. Bill is also the host of CocoaHeads Hong Kong. You can hire him for programming, consultancy and training.
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