Happy Chinese New Year! Happy Chinese New Year everyone! For those who don’t know, January 31st is this year’s Chinese New Year, also known as the “Spring Festival”. It marks as the first day of the Lunar New Year, which is based on the lunar cycles of the lunar calendar rather than the solar cycles of the Gregarian calendar. While most of the world uses the Gregarian calendar as an international standard, the lunar calendar is still used for many traditional holidays in many asian and middle-eastern cultures (including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, etc.) although the degree of celebration …
Read More »Hello World!
Welcome… to “The World” ~Ovan to Haseo, .hack//GU A favourite quote from the .hack//GU video game of the popular .hack video game and anime series. This also serves as this website/blog’s obligatory “hello world” – the first line of text that all programmers have printed out at one point or another at the start of their hacking journey ^_^ This website will serve as my main blog and info dump for the various personal and online projects that I work on. This includes programming projects (both software development and hardware hackery), gaming (mostly PvP videos for MMORPGs), and anime-related stuff …
Read More »99 Root Beer
You and I in a little root beer shop, Buy a case of root beer with the money we’ve got. Popping tabs at the break of dawn, Til one by one, they were gone Back at base, cream floats everywhere. Flash the message, a shortage’s out there! Drink it down in the summer time, 99 root beer cans go by… 99 root beer cans, Cooling down the summer heat. Panic bells, its shortage alert! There’s no root beer somewhere out there! The Root Beer Store springs to life, Opens up to waiting eyes, Quenching thirsts as 99 root beer cans …
Read More »[MS] Microsoft Interns Dance Mob
(Direct download) Event: Microsoft Intern Party (Signature Event) Summer 2011 Location: Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, WA on 2011/07/28 Song: This Time (Dirty Bits) by Black Eyed Peas Dance moves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bilh-2-g51Q Video by: Philip Peng, SDET Intern A big thanks to our intern coordinators staff for planning the event and Lena Wolfe for choreographing the dance moves.
Read More »A Free Digital Society – Speech by Richard Stallman
On April 20, 2011, Richard Stallman was invited by STWing and Dining Philosophers to the University of Pennsylvania to deliver a speech, titled “A Free Digital Society” . Below is a video recording of the speech, recorded by myself (Philip Peng): Your browser does not support the video tag. I apologize ahead of time for the shaky first few minutes (I was trying to securely attach my cellphone camera on my laptop using masking tape) as well as the few sections where video were accidentally cut out (due to either the phone falling off my laptop or my cell phone’s …
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