Tech Bubble in Causal Loop Diagram

I came to believe that the 2011 year tech startup bubble has formed. I believe the history of 90s has repeated itself. Some startups which has not made money at all went public. There is nothing inside but air.
Recently while taking the Enterprise Architecture Practitioner course with NUS ISS, I learnt how to use Causal Loop diagram.
I want to try composing the diagram on various topics. For today, it's the tech startup bubble.

The next SG GTUG Meetup

I have skipped some of the Google Technology User Group meetups, as our newborn baby Jasper still needed the daddy's attendance there. I tried at best to be able to support my wife during those first few 'challenging' months.
I looked at the website and wanted to see how far I have missed those meetups. One in March about SingPath (Chris' project). But he did explained to us on last Singapore Java User Group meetup. Android Honeycomb on February. January on Game Development. So much from August 2010 to March 2011.
No meetups on April and May.
So last time was the Google DevFest on June 2010. Can't believe it was one year. So what I have missed mostly were the Android stuffs.

Next meeting will be about AppEngine, stuffs I am playing with a lot. Ikai will be the speaker.
OK. Can't wait for the next meetup. Yipee!

Google Translate (Chinese --> English) read in Chinese dialect instead of translating to English

I am a fan of Google Translate. I use the tool quite often, and it helps me well on learning foreign languages such as Chinese (weird eh, but Chinese languages are foreign languages to me) and Spanish.

I came across this:

 Er, this loosely a 'Chinese' reading of the Chinese characters, but it's in Cantonese I guess, not Mandarin.
I expected that the translation was something like "Happy Chinese New Year", or "Happy New Year", instead it shows up in one of those dialects.

Meanwhile the same thing when you put the characters in English --> Chinese translation, they will put the same characters, along with the Mandarin pronounciation below (gong1xi2 fa1cai3).

It's a weird translation, but I guess a lot of source texts are just simply takes in "Kung Hei Fat Choi" as 'unofficial' English translation? 

Merry Christmas everybody!

Hi all,

Merry Christmas 2010!
Wish you a joyous Christmas, happy holiday!

Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10 on my laptop

Today I am doing a clean install of latest Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10 (the perfect ten!). This time I'm doing it from a USB drive, on Dell Inspiron 1420 (which unfortunately has always had problem for the WiFi device driver).

This time I won't get fooled around by installing the 32-bit version. This time it has to be the 64-bit kernel!
I followed the instruction given by PendriveLinux.com.

 It's quite straightforward and easy to install.

My wishlist for my blogger site

Now that I have my blog at Blogger/Blogspot, my wish list are:

• a good syntax highlighter, at least similar to SyntaxHighlighter by Alex Gorbatchev; I know at certain time people managed to have it run on their blogger sites, but most of the links I found in Google is a very old links that seems to no longer working at all.
• customize my own blog template
• put links to my other blogs (I think this one should be very easy)

Converting Wordpress Blog to Blogger / Blogspot

Today I am trying to consolidate my Java blog posts and separate some of my posts on Python, and also other stuffs here. All were previously in my Wordpress blog sites.
When I search in Google, there is a hope in wordpress2blogger tool. It is a hosted tool at Google App Engine. Google App Engine put the limitation of the upload to 1Mb, so you can only upload blog less than 1Mb in size. Of course we can work around the limitation by importing the blog bit by bit.
For my case, I divided into 4 chunks.

This is how I did it:

1. Login to your Wordpress account, and navigate to the Dashboard for the blog that you want to transfer to Blogger/Blogspot. I was using Wordpress 3.0 which had slightly different configuration and menu from the one described on the appengine hosted tool.
2. Click on Tools (left accordion menu section) > Export (link)
3. Download the Wordpress XML file.
4. Upload to the wordpress2blogger.appspot.com website, click [Convert] (button).
5. You will automatically download from the site, a new format that is importable by blogger. The file normally will be named blogger-export.xml
6. Open your Blogger account, create a blog if you haven't got one, or you can import to your existing blog. Go to this link: Dashboard > Settings (tab) > Basic (tab) > Import blog (link). Choose the file.

That's it! Done.