I was searching the web for Keller's famous quote:
"When you face the sun, the shadows always fall behind you."
and found this nice editorial which is worth reprinting in its entirety:

Here is my newest web site:
http://searching911.info/

It operates like a controlled wiki to collectively gather the best evidence behind each theory.

From a friend:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/world/asia/03chinglish.html?src=me&ref...
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/05/03/world/asia/20100503_CHINGLIS...

A couple favorites from my own experience:

A Chinese pastry restaurant in Boston's Chinatown offers a "Pu Pu
Platter" in its menu. (I'm guessing "pu pu" means "common", so it
might be an assortment of common pastries.)

I once stayed in a truly tiny hotel room in Tokyo, and read the list
of things that were prohibited in the room. One of them was "Objects

I just completed the preliminary configuration for the new site Meta Linux at http://linux.overshoot.tv/

Thus, I shall no longer blog on technical / Linux related issues here but I will use the new site for that.

In the previous pages, I was discussing the benefits of the Blog + Wiki + Issue tracker community web site concept. Though this concept is not limited to software development web sites (far from that), they are the prime target to implement it. http://ktorrent.org/ is one such site which would greatly benefit from a reorganization. In this article, I'll first describe the current web site organization, its strengths and weaknesses. Then I'll go over a proposed upgrade path to a fully integrated Blog + Wiki + Issue Tracker software development community web site.

Forums are very popular software. However, by internet standards, they are a very old technology. Such software are popular because of their ease of use and ease of installation, but they do not serve well the communities using them. In some of the other articles in this section, I give hints as to why forums are more often than not ill-adapted to the site's objectives.

Instead of a traditional forum software, I suggest building web sites around 3 main content types:

1. Wiki: the end result of the collaborative effort of the community.

Since the launch of http://overshoot.tv/ in 2008, I have been using and promoting more and more the Blog + Wiki + Issue tracker community web site concept.

This section and the articles below is to explain a bit more this concept, and why community/activist/development web sites ought to consider adopting it.

To extract the audio from an .avi video file, use the command:

Make sure that the program oggenc is installed. I didn't know which package this program was, so I searched and found this nifty tool for Ubuntu: apt-file

Install it and update its internal database:

Then using this tool to search for oggenc told me I could find it in the vorbis-tools package:

$ apt-file search oggenc


As some of you may know, I am trying to scan a whole book written by my grandfather, as I plan to publish it on the internet. It is a very inspiring book which could change our society.

So, first thing first, I need to scan the whole book and use an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software as a first step to put it into HTML form.

This is the main documentation wiki for Ubuntu OCR.

I only had a test scan in .pdf format to test with, so I followed the instructions to use GIMP to transform it into a TIFF (.tif) file.

I mentioned earlier that after my last trip to Hong Kong and the aviary in HK Park, a silly manipulation mistake caused me to lose my most prized pictures, close up shots of exotic birds.