Keyboard

I’ve been wanting a mechanical keyboard for a very long time. 2 weeks ago, I ordered a Keycool 87 (Tenkey-less) from Taobao. It just reached yesterday. As you can see, this TKL Keycool 87 came with top printed ABS caps. I dislike ABS caps because the surface will turn shiny over long usage hour. Therefore, I opted for a PBT side printed keycap. Oh BTW its the clicky-clacky Cherry MX Blue....

November 12, 2013 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Berries

We started growing berry trees long ago. Its time to multiply them. Week 3 Progress Updates: All 5 of them Strongest among all Smallest and weakest at the back

November 5, 2013 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Porting to Octopress

I have slowed down my updates on my blog these months. Lately, I spend my time travelling so do my works. The other reason behind the reduced of new posts because I am considering alternative platform to Posterous. Some of you might know that Posterous is winding down after the acquisition by Twitter. After several trials, I’ve decided to settle with Octopress hosted with Heroku due to several reasons:- Complete mirror of local copy Changes are tracked with Git Markdown Code snippet with Pygments Awesome mobile theme But this platform has several downside compared to Posterous...

August 16, 2012 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Population Growth

Human must be the favourite creation from the Nature. We are not only blessed with the power to think and comprehend but also very much suitable for the current situation. Human population grows tremendously in recent centuries especially after World War II (refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_growth). Referring to the graph here, our population actually doubled from 1960s until now. Once people thought we might experienced serious food crisis that will prevent the human to expand further however with the technology, we are able to produce food better for most of the people here (2 out of 7 billion people here still experiencing food security)....

May 8, 2012 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan

Robert Frost's Decision

During my secondary school, everyone in the school read a poem by Robert Frost called The Road Not Taken. It questions us to pick a path for your future. It teaches me on being responsible on the decisions. Its has been years after I first encountered this poem, this poem still does not fail to frequent me whenever I am making hard decisions. Dear Robert, did you really sigh when you took the road less taken?...

February 27, 2012 · 1 min · Shern Shiou Tan