Game of the week: Stanley Cup Game 7

Any game 7 in the final series gotta be exciting regardless of the outcome. In the case, I'm even happier because it was won by my favorite NHL team, the Pittsburgh Penguins! I was asked how the Pens become my favorite team. Well, when I started watching hockey, there was no team in my area. (The Stars was still in Minnesota, then known as the North Stars!) And Lemieux and Jagr were simply the most amazing duo at that time. 16 years later, we have another dynamic duo in Crosby and Malkin (hope they will win another cup together!)

This is simply a fantastic series: the two same teams, Penguins and Red Wings played in the final last year. Even though the Pens were more mature by a year, most thought that the Red Wings was even more improved. They looked so correct when the Pens were down 0-2 after 2 games into the series. However, just like the series against Washington Capitals, they bounced back, which showed great characters!

When Lemieux got the cup again, this time as a owner (he was a player 16 years ago), I knew this gotta be one of the sweetest moment in sports this year.

Music of the day: Flight of the Bumblebee

This is a video of the virtuosic classical piece being performed on the Ruan (中阮), the Chinese version of guitar:


Amazed? I am!

Tech of the day: what is wrong with Twitter?

Well, I don't know but this blogger came up with this lengthy article about a non-issue (btw, he used to write for TechCrunch. See the connection?) Basically he claimed Twitter's developer are not Twitting much and not following a lot of people. He worried that by not using the product they developed, they won't be in tune with what users expect.

Not sure if he knows anything about software development. There is a thing called "testing environment," which is separated from the production environment he has been doing his so-called analysis! I'm pretty sure Twitter's development team uses Twitter a lot, in the testing environment!

Star of the day: Conan O'Brien

Conan made his big move last week: from the Late night show to the Tonight show. Well, I haven't watched any episode yet since I am not a big fan of him and the show even though Tonight Show was pretty much the only talk show I bothered to watch once in a while because of its band (featuring jazz guitarist Kevin Eubank!)

I did hear one of his joke on the radio and it was a good one: the 3 most time wasting websites, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, will be combined into one: YouTwitFace :D

Topic of the day: online textbook, good or bad deal?

I've just read about California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is pushing online textbook to save cost. I expected lots of "old school" commenters will ridicule this plan just because it is different from what they are used to. It turns out they do have a point: the online textbooks might not be that good a deal for students because it is not gonna cost much less than the paper textbooks and they are not resalable!

Topic of the day: 95% of blogs are abandoned

It's according to this article. It also says most blog has an audience of one. Oh well, I don't want this blog to be part of the former but most likely the latter applies. You would think writing a 3-liner like this everyday is easy. I could tell you it's a bit harder than you think because sooner or later you realize there is an audience of one and you will lose your motivation!

每週一噏：抗議裁判官陳家昇歧視旺角

今週讀到一則新聞：涉嫌賣淫女子上庭衣著性感，被裁判官陳家昇指責：「你當呢度係旺角」

換言之，該官認為衣著不莊嚴的人士只能到旺角？除旺角外全香港其他地方都是上等人？筆者建議旺角區議員聯同居民上街遊行抗議，直至該官道歉為止。