Feb 01
when’s the last time u changed your wallpaper? citing this para off smashingmagazine:
Desktop wallpapers can serve as an excellent source of inspiration. However, if you use some specific wallpaper for a long period of time, it becomes harder to draw inspiration out of it
(Designed by Ashleigh Liggett from United States)
it’s time to change your wallpaper 
and smashingmagazine.com is offering you a nice SEVENTY 70 choices! (:
Dec 27
if you often like to use little graphics/icons in your presentation, student handouts etc, and you’re recycling ms clipart too often, check out these nicely created FREE icon sets by IconEden (:
May 07
believed this is not the first time i’ve seen this blog but this is the first time i create a post to remind myself of it in future:
Free Technology for Teachers
if you like to use animal photos in your lessons, you can read about it here;
if you like to see more examples of educators’ blog (a major reason is you cant find much of it here), you can read about it here;
if you like to find out more about copyrights and possibly teaching your students on the topic, you can read about it here;
… the list’s non-exhaustive. i believe you’ll find most, if not all, entries useful. enjoy (:
Jan 29
read about these few Internet measurement tools via /. :
- Network Diagnostic Tool – Test your connection speed and receive sophisticated diagnosis of problems limiting speed.
- Glasnot - Test whether BitTorrent is being blocked or throttled.
- Network Path and Application Diagnosis – Diagnose common problems that impact last-mile broadband networks.
Other tools are still in development as M-Lab is “only at the beginning of its development”. The first two tools look especially interesting to me (:
Oct 12
was reading /. post on “How Should I Teach a Basic Programming Course?” and these 2 websites appeared in the comments:
the chance of me teaching programming is probably next to zero, but thought it’ll be good to store these 2 interesting links in the storeroom. who knows when it’ll come in useful
Jul 01
it’s been another long while since there’s any update to this blog, and today marks a day worth celebrating — the long-awaited (albeit 6 months delay) revamped version of Culture Bridge is officially launched. Culture Bridge (aka 文化桥) has been the babies of multiple webmasters, and i believe the current webmaster Tan Ying 丹盈 (and 凤琳、自金 as well) must have been through a great deal of efforts to get this revamped version go live. thank you for taking over the work and giving the Bridge a new breath of life 
am regretted for not being able to contribute to new content much as we wished to as our current “full-time parents, part-time student” portfolio is unexpectedly overwhelming. however, i shall end this post with another great news for the future development of Culture Bridge, as on this very same day, Adobe has announced that it’ll release codes needed to search engine developers to make Flash content indexable! yes, until now the Flash-based Bridge has remained a ‘void’ to the web spiders, so what better news can there be
Jun 04
saw this new online tool mentioned in Anne Davis’s post and thought it’s a nice tool to try out, and best of all, you get to share your findings with other users. something about the tool:
iBreadCrumbs is…
A Social Network for Researchers
to Share Recorded URLs, Track Websites,
Review Notes Online, and Encourage
Online Collaborative Research.
to find out more, visit the site now!
2 things that came to my mind before i actually try out the tool:
1. the dynamicity of the www can lead to the fast outdating of our research. for how long would such a research ‘history’ be useful and how much would it benefit other fellow users?
2. organising makes info more mearningful but it takes effort and time as well if we were to review the list recorded by the tool and strike off sites that we deemed not useful. not sure if this would be too overwhleming.
will try it out soon
Jan 05
was looking for a reference on Sigmund Freud’s (1900) “The Interpretation of Dreams” and came upon a 3rd edition available on the web via Psych Web put up by Dr. Russell A. Dewey (PhD).
Psych Web is an excellent web site on psychology. you can find a complete, 725-pages introductory psychology textbook that’s available on the site! you can find many other related resources on the left menu bar and even an apa style reference sheet called the APA Manual Crib Sheet.
explore n enjoy
Nov 26
needed some tips for my upcoming assignment, and a google search revealed these few references:
1. Book Critique
2. Book or Article Review or Critique Guidelines
3. Writing Book Critiques
4. The Book Review or Article Critique: General Guidelines
wish me luck for my next (exam) assignment :O
Nov 10
uncovered these few sources via a google search term 语料库: