Posted by samson on Feb 23, 2010 in
Life's little pleasures Ha, I am on the TTC again! The last time I was in one, it must have been my high school days. The daily repetitive movement of going from home to scarbrough town centre, to Kennedy station and finally stopping at Victoria park station. Those were the fun days, I recall very clearly how each of the movement the RT makes and applied the laws of physics to it, rendering my ability to stand anywhere without safety handles. I also know well the most apporiate staircases to commuite when transfering between trains, the proper obstacles to avoid, etc…
Now that I am on a business trip to downtown Toronto, representing both the college and university, I find myself foriegn to the once familiar pace. The saddest part of all is that I find myself clinging for life to a metallic pole whenever the compartment displaced.
Tags: TTC
Posted by samson on Aug 7, 2009 in
Road to Pleasant future Wow, I just lost my 1000th Calorie and its only been several days since I’ve started this new game, called EA Sports Active.
This little program is really amazing, it uses the Wii remote and nun-chuck to detect one hand and one leg. So, the system actually have more lower body building exercises then other software, such as those on PCs or PS2s…
It uses many ‘encouraging’ dialogs, to encourage you, the user, to do exercises. Not to mention the amount of goals settings. It makes a lazy person, such as myself, into a person who wouldn’t mind working 20 to 30 mins a day to both get in shape and attain those goals.
Another feature of this little program is the ability to add your daily chores into account, so, if I did Yard works, household chores, or other sports, they will all be added in to the goal systems.
What I am a bit disappointed is that it cannot ask you for what you have done ‘today’ and alter the exercises according to it. For one example, I am about to start two hours of badminton, the system would not alter the program for today and make it less demanding automatically, or automatically convert itself into a warmup only mode, but instead, records by asking me tomorrow, what I did today.
Posted by samson on Aug 5, 2009 in
Road to Pleasant future Yesterday, I purchased a Chicken Ceasar Salad with an extra Egg Salad roll on the side, just in case I wasn’t filled by the Salad, it was my first time eating a Salad for lunch.
Well, about one hour after lunch yesterday, I went and consumed the Egg Salad Rolls which I had decided to leave aside for today.
That leaves today’s lunch open, again.
Unlike yesterday, today, I went straight for the Salad bar, with fresher greens then a pre-packaged box of Chicken Caesar. The Salad container is actually the same size, however, for seven bucks, I can add one protein (Egg or chicken) and as much Veggies as I liked.
In my salad today are the following ingredients.
Bacon Bits, Red Onion, Sun Flower Seeds, Red Pepper, Mushroom, croutons, and Tangerines. All on top of a spinach base with chicken pieces. Tossed off in a Tangy Thai Sauce.
Yummy!
Posted by samson on Aug 4, 2009 in
Road to Pleasant future Recently, I’ve started changing my life style, primarily with the way I indulge food.
Food have always been something that I love. I am sure most people have the same love for food as I do. Otherwise, why work so hard to earn money, right?
However, recent times have change, at least for me. As I get older, it seems I may have let my love for ‘eating’ rule over my generic ability to eat or exercise. So the result is obesity. Honestly, within the last two years, everyone that I knew had either directly or indirectly asked when I have planned to loose weight. It has never really bothered me until this summer, when I noticed one thing.
I have a decent education, of course a honors bachelors is not something that is very ‘distinctive’ but it still puts me at a better stage then the average Joe.
I have a decent job, unlike a friend of mine, who is still stuck at the sweat shop that we both started our careers at.
So what else is there? More indulgence until death? What about my dreams of travelling this planet, and visiting countries that I currently don’t know how to spell?
So, as of August 1st, 2009 I have started a new approach and am currently attempting to change my lifestyle.
My old lunch would usually include things like Fried Onion rings, French Fries, Burger, Bacon, Chicken finger, donuts, Cinnimon rolls, instant dinners, or other meat and salt heavy lunches.
On Friday, my lunch was Subway Melt with lettuce, tomatos, Red Onions and today, my lunch is a chicken ceasar salad, with an egg salad roll, just incase I am not full with the salad. (This will most likely be tomorrow’s lunch as i am already pretty full from the greens and the six pieces of chicken breast.)
Well, a healthy body is also a step towards a pleasant future.
Posted by samson on Jun 27, 2009 in
Computer World Based on my current reviews on all the Learning Management systems available, I have to say that Moodle, even with its popularity, is not as promising as Sakai can be. The ultimate technology that drove me to this decision is that Sakai is Apache/Tomcat based where as Moodle is Apache/PHP based. By the nature of Tomcat, Sakai LMS is written natively in Java where as Moodle is in simple PHP scripts.
I am not saying that PHP is useless or other possible degrading terms, but I do believe that PHP is not as stable, reliable and ultimately as powerful as Java. One of the underlying abilities of WebCT that I personally really like is its Java back end. The ability to actually create Client-Server communication in an N-Tier architecture, that’s really amazing. This is something that, even with the emerging of Web 2.0 and HTML 5 standards, PHP can never really achieved. It can simulate it, but not achieve.
Another special abilities that Java based LMS, such as WebCT, can do while PHP based LMS can not accomplish, are the server side initialization events. In WebCT, this includes all the private messaging, the invitation to chat rooms, sharing of pictures. Since we have a real Client-Server connection, the client does not have to revisit the server on a pre-determined schedule to obtain updated information. It is notified when new events need its users’ attention, just imagining the graphical version of this network gives me a headache.
So, my suggestions is that if you are planning on using your LMS as the general Portal for all your students and staff, choose very carefully before you make a decision, since we all know, once you got used to something, you don’t want to adopt something different.
Tags: LMS, Moodle, WebCT