Past - Present - Future

Lets talk about some tenses, here are some simple examples:

Past is past

Present is present

Future is future

See, they are very simple right? Haha

Bing vs Google

By now, most people should have know about the existence of Bing.
For those who still don't know, Bing is Microsoft's new search engine.

Come try out the following website.
It allows you to search using Bing and Google together:
Bing vs Google



The search results for Bing and Google will be displayed side by side.
This will help you in comparing the search results.

Which one do you prefer?

Eternal Life

As usual, when you are sick or not well, you can always go to see a doctor and get some medicine or perform some treatment, then you will feel better. But we all also know that it is a fact that everyone who live on earth will die. We cannot live on earth forever.

However, if you believe in Jesus as your Savior, he promises that you will have a new life in heaven! Isn't this a good news to all of us? Yeah, it is a good news! Come, lets spread this good news! =)

Google Monster

Google Monster

Do you think Google is a monster? Haha

HTML5 Canvas Experiment

Click here to launch the experiment! (beware: sophisticated browser needed)

HTML5 is getting a lot of love lately. With the arrival of FireFox 3.5, Safari 4 and the new betas of Google Chrome and Opera, browsers support some great new features including canvas and the new audio/video tags. Most interesting: modern mobile devices like the iPhone or Android-based phones also support new standards in favor of Flash. The future looks bright for HTML5.

Time for us to play with this technology. We’ve created a litttle experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine. Each particle represents a tweet – click on one of them and it’ll appear on the screen.

The original particle engine was ported from a Flex/AS3 project that we’ve created to javascript. We’re using processing.js for particle rendering on canvas which is a very useful graphics library created by John Resig. The music will only be played if the browser supports the audio tag. To detect if the audio or canvas feature is present we use the awesome modernizr library. We could have used a fallback solution like playing the sound via Flash. But this experiment is about HTML5 – and who needs Flash anyway?

Big thanks to spokenlounge.com for supporting us and for providing the mp3 track.

If you want to dive into further ressources, then try:

- HTML5Doctor, great ressource about everything HTML5

- Official Mozilla Canvas Tutorial

- Carsonified linklist about HTML5

International Youth Day 2009

SUSTAINABILITY: Our Challenge. Our Future.

Sustainability does not only refer to maintaining environmental balance and renewal. Sustainability encapsulates three facets of life: the environment, society and the economy. We live our lives in the overlaps and intersections of these facets, and our actions and attitudes help shape them. Their changing shapes in turn affect the way we are able to live our lives. The negative effects of unsustainable behaviour are not easily contained. As has been proven by the global crises in food, the economy and the environment, the concept of the global village has gone beyond being a useful analogy to being a hard reality, making clear the need to adopt a global sense of social responsibility.

With these things in mind, as the energizers of today and the holders of tomorrow, it is imperative that youth embrace the challenge of sustainability in its fullness as they help pave the way forward through the 21st century and beyond. Youth action, inclusion, and their full participation are key to developing today’s world for the generations of today and tomorrow and central to a sustainable existence.

How you can celebrate the day

Team up!

It is a great opportunity to rally support and get key actors involved - Governments, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, businesses, and young people - to focus on what has been done to further the World Programme of Action for Youth.

Organize!

Hold forums, public discussions and information campaigns in support of young people focusing on youth issues and how they can be addressed.

Celebrate!

Plan and organize performances everywhere to showcase - and celebrate – the fact that youth contribute to the societies in which they live. Convene exchanges and dialogues focusing on the rich and varied skills, interests and aspirations of young people.

Take action!

A major focus of the Day is practical action to further encourage the empowerment and participation of youth in the processes and decisions that affect their lives. The media have especially important role to play in support of the observance of the Day to promote public awareness of youth issues.

The United Nations Programme on Youth is encouraging youth organisations around the world to host community barter fairs for International Youth Day. Remember, with bartering there is no money involved, only pure exchange of goods and services.