I have a mini-project called oboeyasui.com. In Japanesese “oboeyasui ” means easy to remember. I registered the domain so that I could create a personal portal linking all the blogs/sites and other places you can find me on the net. For my Japanese speaking friends http://oboeyasui.com/ian should be easy to remember. [...]
Posted on May 6th, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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I’ve been meaning to and forgetting to tell everyone about the great program that is Launchy. I hope Josh doesn’t mind but Launchy is like QuickSilver but for the PC. That is to say that it is a keyboard based program launcher. Hit a hotkey combination ( I use Control-Space) and then [...]
Posted on February 9th, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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I picked up a new life skill today. I learnt to tie my shoelaces. That’s right, at the age of 31 and thanks to the Internet I learnt to tie my shoelaces properly. I have always wondered why my laces never seemed symmetrical and why they came undone more often than other [...]
Posted on August 24th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
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One of the most popular posts (at least from search engine led) visitors on this site is the Japanese Postal Codes in English one. Unfortuantely it only covers 6 major cities. People looking for Okinawan postal codes are out of luck.
But here’s something that everyone who can type Japanese on [...]
Posted on May 24th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
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If you have a mobile phone that can access the web, you’ll realise that a lot of sites are simply unviewable because of the way they have been designed. Here’s Google to the rescue (for some reason it is hidden away in the back corridors of its site). It’s not a complete [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
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