Regardless of the faith you may subscribe to, I believe this holds true in general. A religion not lived is all but talking – wasting oxygen.
True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness, all one’s honesty.
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
German-born Theoretical Physicist
It was well worth the effort to stay up for the game and witness another historic moment for Australian soccer.
This morning’s (23 June) game was a pulsating affair from which Australia eventually emerged the victor – barely. Needing a draw going into the decisive match (a win is required from Croatia for them to remain in the World Cup) for Australia to proceed to the Round of 16 (first time ever!), it was a emotionally charged, see-saw affair which saw firstly Croatia leading, then Australia equalising, then Croatia scoring after a costly error from the Australian keeper. Then came the final equaliser when all four Australian forwards (of the 5 in the side) were thrown into the attack. In due course, Australia was rewarded for their “big heart”. Go Aussies!
As of last night, I have completed the process of transferring all of my Tango-related thoughts to a new blog. These entries will now reside on the subdomain tango.yyquest.net, accessible from navigation bar near the top of this page. Why? As this main blog slowly evolves, I wanted to have a better focus.
I can’t really say that the migration was that straightforward because there is AFAIK no mass-delete functions in :wp: for me to remove all entries in a given category, so I had to remove every entry manually. Secondly, there was an issue with erroneous comment-counts which either crept in somehow during previous upgrades or as a result of pingback spams. Anyway, everything is spanking clean now!
After my latest trip back to Canberra, a friend commented that some of the shots from the trip were very “me”. This made me wonder if I had really developed a “style” to speak of? Frankly, I had not never really considered this question before – I mean, counting from the day I acquired my first “serious” camera in the Nikon F50.
This has a certain Zen-like quality to it.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
St. Francis de Sales, 1567-1622, 17th Century Bishop of Geneva
Last night (12 June), the Australian national soccer team – known as the Socceroos – created history at the FIFA World Cup 2006. In retrospect, it was not so much what happened but rather the manner the victory was achieved. After all, to put it into the correct perspective, this was only the first game during the preliminary round of the competition. It is still a long way, and a long shot, come to think of it, before the Finals. There is Croatia and Brazil to conquer.
Socrates: ‘Know thyself.’
Emerson: ‘Trust thyself.’
In my mind, those four words come close to a complete philosophy on how to live.
Add a fifth word: ‘Love’ and I think we might just be there…
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According to Wikipedia, typography is
“is the art and technique of setting written subject matter in type using a combination of fonts, font size, line length, leading (line spacing) and individual and overall letter spacing.”
Quite a mouthful. And having written many technical papers and reports as well as writing online, I can personally say that it is no mean feat.
Well, here are some discussions from people much more knowledgeable than me about improving readability for online reading.
With the release of the new The Da Vinci Code movie, the interest in Dan Brown’s novel of the same title is simply phenomenal.
As another nice example of what is possible with Web 2.0, some creative minds has actually created a Da Vinci Tour and Da Vinci Code Map, both based on Google Maps. This is what is known as a mashup (of Web 2.0 technologies, that is) in Geek-speak. This means from now on you can actually navigate to all the key locations mentioned in the novel. Cool!
ps. For more examples of mashups using Google Map, there is always the Google Maps Mania.
Let’s face it, once you started to blog, as I did almost 4 years ago, you are creating an online persona which sooner or later can be traced back to the you in the real world. In places where free speech is heavily discouraged (whether openly or subtly in so-called democratic countries, but let’s not go there just yet…), this is just asking for trouble. Well, it seems that now there are in fact resources for people looking to post online without fear of having their identity exposed: Anoniblog.