A late 20s west coaster currently residing in Toronto, working as a freelance frontend web developer. Interests include Toronto's never ending activities, its diverse and tasty food, and the great people. I'm also in the course of learning Japanese.
© 2009 Mike Lin
Dec
27
I wanted to do some reflecting and make some kind of new years list but I didn’t know what kind of list, so this is just going to be a list of stuff I liked in 2006.
The only thing I’m going to leave out of this list is people, because I don’t think I can express how much I really appreciate the people in my life in just a sentence or two each.
So here they are in no particular order:
Dec
6
Firefox’s smart keywords are amazingly useful.
Using smart keywords as described in the link, you can make it so that if you type ‘d nonplussed’ into Firefox’s address bar to do a lookup in your favourite dictionary site, or ‘th nonplussed’ for a thesaurus lookup, or ‘wp nonplussed’ for a Wikipedia lookup etc. Combine this with the alt-d hotkey to move the cursor to the address bar, and you can lookup an unfamiliar word in literally 2 seconds, which means you’re way more likely to do it. After using it for a while, you’ll be saying more really big words, which among other things is totally sexy.
… although they say it’s not the size of your vocabulary that matters, it’s how you use it.
Dec
3
So Pat got this ridiculous and awesome game where, get this, you test your reaction time against others by pushing a button when a light goes off, and if you’re the slowest, and here is it straight up, you get electrocuted! Check it out: Lightning Reactions
Of course we had to get some suckers… I mean friends over to try it out. So we had a party at me and Kerry’s place.