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A month ago in the late summer, I took my GDNT co-workers to the Gatineau park for a visit. One of the main attractions there is the Mackenzie King Estate.



A cottage of Canada's 10th prime minister, the Mackenzie King Estate turns into a garden today and open to the public. The estate is incomplete as King passed away after retired, before he finish building his dream resident. This only added to the fun when visiting the place so we can let our imagination run wild to how the place would be like if finished.



During the summer months, NCC has guided tours of the garden at weekends run by volunteers.

I was here many years ago, but this time around I enjoy the visit much more because of the guided tour offer many insights surrounding the historical place.

It's a highly recommended touring destination in Canada's capital region.

See my Machenzie King Estate web album here

Further reading:
King's Diary
William Lyon Mackenzie King @ Wikipedia

From "My tagged link dump":

• The Cost of Privacy in Social Web Applications (al3x.net)
  - I was a bit surprise a while back when find out that spook.com somehow know my age (leak from Friendster).... privacy.... and why it's important

From "My tagged link dump":

• Don’t Talk on the Cell Phone While Driving (One man's blog)
• Simpsonize Me

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• warrior sweet (she who eats)
  - Shingen Mochi, I tried them once when visit Japan last year. They are good.
• Project Honey Pot - Aim to gather volunteers to help detects spammer, virus, and other nasties on the Internet
• 撞一次長一智！ (消防員的故事)
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• The Honeynet Project - A research organization dedicated to improve Internet security for teh public
• Don’t Talk on the Cell Phone While Driving (One man's blog)
• Simpsonize Me

From "My tagged link dump":

• nciku n词酷 - A neat Chinese dictionary with hand writing recognition
• HanziLookup - A Chinese hand writing recoginition tool
• Lamerpad - Another proof-of-concept Chinese handwriting program
• Microsoft Surface - A new kind of computing platform, with a lot of touch, big surface on table.
• Use Tor P2P - Get Arrested
• PJSIP - A open source embedded SIP and media stack
• What Twitter is (Scripting News)
• 暗黑谷階名士研究〈四〉 ─ 「雞蟲」攻略 (暗黑熱血)
• 看Blog教人納悶 (香港仔公國)
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• 嫁人要嫁工資比你高3571.4元的 (談心‧張宏艷)
• 情色版．研究 (大雄網站)

In a lazy Sunday afternoon, I made a pork bone soup.

You get these:



Chop them up, put them in a pot with water. After boiling for 1.5 hours, you get this:



Simple? I think so.

From "My tagged link dump":

• Facebook Developers - Deveopler info to writing applications to integrate with Facebook

From "My tagged link dump":

• 這是中文爵士，真爵士 - 馮穎琪《擁抱現在》

From "My tagged link dump":

• SIPfoundry - A open source SIP based IP PBX
• CHDK - Alternative firmware for Canon Digic II cameras
• Maltego - A data mining software to find information about domain, person, and etc from the Internet
• GPS Track - A java progream to record the path that you travel using a GPS and java capable cellphone

From "My tagged link dump":

• OpenLaszlo - An open source platform for creating web applications GUI capabilities like desktop software. Applications is written with XML, JavaScript/DHTML and works with Flash

From "My tagged link dump":

• IP-to-Country.com - Another IP-to-Country database

From "My tagged link dump":

• ip2nation - A database resolves IP to country

From "My tagged link dump":

• memcached - A distributed memory object caching system

From "My tagged link dump":

• OpenJAUS - A open source implementation of the Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems to control robots and unmanned vehicles
• NQC - Not Quite C - A simple C-like language to program Lego's RCX programmable brick
• brickOS - An alternative OS for the Lego Mindstorms RCX Controller
• TinyVM - A Java VM firmware for the Lego Mindstorms RCX
• Neuros OSD - a DVR allow users to record and share multimedia contents