Germany is well know for its Garden Dwarft culture. Now I discovered, that the Chinese too have them!
There was more to see in that monastery garden. A collection of statues (I need to find out what they mean) that invite to contemplate.
Boys and their toys VII
Sat, Mar 6th 2010 6:24a Stephan H. Wissel The good Movie Bag is loosing shape and SWMBO insists on replacement. SoI had a look at Varier: [read] Keywords:
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Address Dialog on stereoids
Sat, Feb 27th 2010 3:23p Stephan H Wissel Over the long live of Lotus Notes the address dialog has been a trusted, never changing compagnion:
Over the years it got some facelift like the ability to drag and drop or the ability to sort by Notes hierarchy, language or corporate hierarchy (anybody seen that?) or to look at details in yet another window. It works OK as long as the number of names is small and diverse. However once you enter cultures that are notoriously short of last names and sport large companies it gets tedious to pic [read] Keywords: lotus
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Quote collection
Sat, Feb 27th 2010 3:23p Stephan H Wissel A collection of quotes I like:
Thomas T. Nagle: Sustainable cost advantages are realized not by constant belt tightening,
but by the efficient use of resources
Edsger Dijkstra It is never enough to satisfy your own intellect (since it will be laid in your grave with you), but one must teach others, to use their mind.
The more one focuses on these two tasks, the faster one realized that they are the two sides of one coin:
Who teaches himself, discovers what can be taught
Antoine de Saint-Exup [read] Keywords: lotus
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JavaScript Closures
Sat, Feb 20th 2010 8:30a Stephan H Wissel XPages allow you to use JavaScript closures in both client and server side code. There are plenty explanations available, which seem to make them rather more mysterious. After looking at a lot of them I conclude: "JavaScript closures are like riding a bicycle: nearly impossible to explain, but obvious and natural once you get it". So here is my try, from a LotusScript perspective.
First step in the puzzle is the fact, that there is no difference in JavaScript between a function and a class. To [read] Keywords: lotusscript
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Netgear support hell reloaded - Part 3 - Salvation
Tue, Feb 16th 2010 3:24a Stephan H Wissel Netgear's local support was incredible helpful (Thx Andrew Tan). It turned out the motherboard is fried and one of the disk behaves "interesting". The WD green drives look good on paper, but not so much online. Anyway Andrew was so kind to loan me a spare Netgear unit, so I could resync the faulty drive [read] Keywords: google
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Boys and their toys VI
Mon, Feb 15th 2010 4:24a Stephan H. Wissel It is a public holiday here in Singapore, so I can catch up with blog reading while the gentlemen are busy to collect hong bao (red packets). The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is on with a lot of new toys:
The Samsung I8520 Halo running on Android with an integrated projector
Sony Ericsson X10/X10pro
More coverage at Heise (German), Engadget and elsewhere [read] Keywords: google
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GTD in Singapore (or close by if you like)
Thu, Feb 11th 2010 3:24a Stephan H Wissel I love GTD. I'm a happy user of eProductivity (currently not so happy with myself, but that's a different story for a different day). Over time I got introduced to David and his team. In a recent conversation with Michael Dolan, the Director Coaching Services in DavidCo, he mentioned that DavidCo is planning to dispatch a coach to visit Singapore in the near future to serve an existing client. This presents the unique opportunity to engage DavidCo in a Corporate Seminar, get top quality Consulti [read] Keywords: consulting
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Augmeted (Hyper)reality - brain still needed?
Wed, Feb 10th 2010 12:29p Stephan H. Wissel Amazing visualisation of hyper reality. Something to look forward to or to be scared of. It's in the eye of the beholder.
Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.
Via TheNextWeb [read] Keywords: application
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