midomi

A very cool tool! Now you can search music by just humming the song! If you can't find it, be the first recroding it and contribute to the database! (argh, unfortunately they have a bug that crashes my Firefox on Mac....)

Apparently people over there sing (and, urm, look :-) really good. An online verison of American idol?

I'm sure sooner or later someone will get big bucks from record companies because of that.

Hum, when will we have a website that can help a cook to get a show on TV?

Looks like searching voice file is a big hit this coming years, since my friend just left for a startup that does software that can search podcast.

I'm so looking forward to image matching coming out of the lab...

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Another day of staying late in the office. Hopefully things will go smooth next week.

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My salty duck eggs aren't salty at all! Good though that they're still edible :-)

所以美好

In response to 廿九几, I have one little 「情話」

因為生命可以豐盛，所以美好!

Just read Peter Wong's testimony from 《中信》, and was touched by his experience. Peter was my "marriage" counsellor more than a year ago, although we finally chose to break up instead of getting married. He can't see anything, but has the ability to see through our thoughts. One day he said to us, "Hum, why are you guys sitting so far apart away from each other?" That told us something... yeah, for some reasons every time we meet all three of us are sitting in triangle, trying to keep as much distant as possible...

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Came across two articles about chef schools. It seems that getting into culinary schools is becoming a trend now, although the industry doesn't really need that many:

From Toronto Star: Prepping chefs
From The Albuquerque Tribune: Celebrity chefs inspire cravings for culinary jobs

It looks like a long education, like three years, is not something I really need. George Brown's one year program is enough.

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It's really difficult to learn French, especially following those CD's. They're OK, but I think it's a bit over priced. For one thing, you wouldn't learn how to complete a sentece at the end of the course.

Hum, may be I can podcast some Cantonese lessons, and earn some referral commisions to various websites :-)

Fortunately, frenchpodclass.com seems to be very good, they even provide a transcript for each episode!

dailyfrenchpod.com is another site, but you need to pay a montly fee for the transcript. They fact that they concentrate on grammar is something you can't miss.