Author: Tony Tam
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Baic HTML and Javascript: Teaching Computer Programming To Kids: Lesson 2
After dinner, Cate asked if we can continue to learn about computer programming. I told her I would love nothing more. I told her that I will teach her HTML, Hypertext Markup Language and Javascript. HTML is what designers use to control how a page looks like in Firefox. Javascipt let the programmer add interactivity.…
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Binary Numbers: Teaching Computer Programming to Kids: Lesson 1
This morning Cate and I were eating crepes with hazelnut chocolate and she asked me what this means? “10001001” I think she must have seen it somewhere on a piece of paper or an advertisement. I’ve always found it difficult to talk to her about what my job as a software engineer is, so I…
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Yahoo! Homepage gets a tablet version
I was very pleasantly surprised when I browsed to Yahoo! on my iPad and was redirected to a very clean page optimized to my iPad, with swipe action.
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Bay To Breakers 2008
My last Bay to Breakers was in 2005. I found an excuse to skip it in 2006, then I broke my foot in 2007. I was trying to find an excuse not to run it this year, but couldn’t come up with anything. This morning, my snooze button didn’t work at 6am and I woke…
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Happy Mother’s Day : Day With My Mom
This year for mother’s day, I thought I would just spend a full day with her alone (the day before the actual day). No other family members, just mom and son. I hadn’t made any special plans ahead so in morning, I booked a ZipCar just in case we needed it, and walked 20 minutes to…
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Paris Trip Day 4 : Compromises (2008)
I’m usually not good at resolving conflicts. In the dating environment, I would just run away. At work, we’ll try to figure out the ‘right’ way and usually, the ‘right’ way wins. With Cate, usually, the only way that wins is to compromise Last night I was trying to convince Cate to fall asleep sooner…
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fun with light and manual exposure
Cate’s 7th birthday is today. We played with creating art with light and a 15 second manual exposure. The result was pretty impressive. Check out the slideshow http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonytam/sets/72157604433266710/show/
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Not Being Fair Is OK
I’m in Malaysia watching the 2008 Badminton Super Series (I’m an addict) I noticed that older women in Malaysia and Bangalore often would cut in front of lines to the bathroom. It almost seems like they think it’s their right. At first I was going to ask them to get in line, but then I…
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homemade pizza : first attempt a success
C. wants to cook more with her Dad for 2008 New Year’s resolution First attempt at making pizza dough at home. Pretty simple recipe. 10 minutes of working the dough for both C. and I. let it rise for 1 hour. Pop it into the oven for 10 minutes. She gets cheese pizza, I get spicy sausage.…