SmarTone's really positionning itself as the Android vendor in HK
Ok, so after being the official vendor of the Hero in Hong Kong, the Android platoform's former flagship handset is now proposing to hand you HK$4280 if you bring them your Nexus One and sign a monthly...
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Ants from the AC
We have this weird problem with the air conditioner at the office. Whenever you turn on the AC, 30 seconds after the fan starts, big black ants start spewing out of the mouth. I think the outside pipe...
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Once in a while, it's good to put down an assessment of things of the moment. So, this week marks pretty much the seventh month I am in Hong Kong, and not sixth month as I thought. For some reason, it...
View ArticleFlying away
Probably one of the most improbable flights I've done (aside from HKG-CAI) that I'll be doing tonight. I don't know. Maybe this break from my life in HK will do much much good. Living on Lamma is...
View ArticleLes étoiles filantes
J'aurais dû m'en douter que les Perséides se voyaient mieux dans l'hémisphère nord. La constellation de Persée ne se lève qu'après 22h à la latitude de Hong Kong. Vendredi soir, le 13, je suis sorti...
View ArticleTheories in Interaction Design -- Assignment One
Well, what are assignments good for in grad school, if we don't get to publish them anywhere? So here it is, the first assignment that I did for our first seminar course at SD PolyU in interaction...
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Reviving the Canadian electoral financial contributions project
Sometime in early 2009, I came up with the Canadian electoral financial contributions project. At the time, I thought it would be awesome to do something with the data that Elections Canada, an...
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Toronto en trois temps
These are the compiled financial contributions to national instances of political parties and riding associations for 2009, distributed among polling divisions (from postal codes of contributors,...
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Vancouver en trois temps
Like I did for Toronto, but this time for Vancouver. Conservative Party Liberal Party New Democratic Party
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Montréal en trois temps
Dernière d'une série de trois, voici un tracé de la provenance des contributions faites aux partis politiques et associations de circonscription en 2009. L'outil d'où proviennent ces captures d'écran...
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Political financing map in Canada for Cyberpresse
After a few sleepless nights, the political financing map (carte des contributions aux partis politiques) is finally out. The great thing about doing this project is that we started with what is...
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Chromebook, first impressions
I just received my Samsung Series 5 Chromebook. First impressions... There's going to be a little bit of getting used to the lack of desktop. It's basically like Google Chrome, the browser, but taking...
View ArticleLes étoiles filantes (2010-11)
Ce soir, j'ai essayé de regarder les Perséides, en vain. Contrairement à l'année dernière, alors que nous étions à Lamma, cette année, je suis à Montréal à la mi-août. Les choses ont beaucoup changé,...
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Canadian elections by polling division: now the 2011 maps
http://earth.smurfmatic.net/canada2011/polls/ Update (2011-10-16): Indeed, I've now added the political parties layers (the colors represent the proportion of votes by a party over the total number of...
View ArticleSort of moving on
This blog lost its purpose in the past few years, but has kept my best memories since at least 2005. In 2001-04, I was on Tripod, and a pMachine blog on this current domain! Probably because of the...
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