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From "My tagged link dump":

• TwitterWhere? - A twitter toy to show twitters/tweets on or nears a location
• twittermap - Twitter toys to show twitters on the map

From "My tagged link dump":

• FriendFeed - A mini-feed service to mashup what your friends are sharing on-line

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• Nearly a million users, and no spam or trolls (RussellBeattie.com)

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• 如空氣般存在 (健吾　旅日記)
  - quote: 「虛偽」最近很紅，他們說他們討厭藝人不是他們的性生活，而是他們的「虛偽」。問心，香港有誰不虛偽？
• Softpedia - A software download portal for free software

From "My tagged link dump":

• 再談 Twitter (網絡暴民)
  - quote: 人們除了用 Micro-blog 來形容 Twitter 外，也會說這是 Life-Streaming，一點一滴將生活的經歷，通過短小文字發佈給大家

From "My tagged link dump":

• Is Design Dead?
  - quote: I'm sure that, despite the outside impression, XP isn't just test, code, and refactor. There is room for designing before coding. Some of this is before there is any coding, most of it occurs in the iterations before coding for a particular task.
• PageOnce - A personal Internet portal service to mash-up a user's web services information at one location
• Five Interesting Ways of Using a Chumby That Might Make You Buy It

From "Blogs I recommand":

• 港燦筆記

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• 情人節牛扒大餐 (五師兄字)

We've been constantly getting snow for the past few weeks. You can tell by the snow bank on the side of my driveway. Weather forecast saying there will be more by this Sunday.....

From "My tagged link dump":

• Twittershare - A file sharing service using Twitter
• 香港明星，請先問你的良心在哪裡 ( ::littleoslo:: )
• GlassFish - A open source Java EE 5 application server from Sun
• Social Graph API - Google API to support social networking on the net

Not much happening tonight, just pizza, TV, hacking some code, and blogging.

From "My tagged link dump":

• [豬點新聞]捉蟲 (豬欄)
  - quote: 有這樣的人治，難怪當然大家反23條反對得那麼厲害。
• 瘋了 (粉雷雷的簡單人生)
  - quote: 即使是荒淫、不自愛、虛偽、愚蠢，都不應該經這個途徑，不應由我們去批判。
• TwitPic - A web service to share photos on twitter

From "My tagged link dump":

• 朋審處 (Cosine Inn)
• 解放／嬉戲 (Ticklish)
• Social Wallpapering - A computer wallpaper repository
• 道德是這樣練成的 (Orangutan House)
  - quote: 早知今日，很黃很暴力. 何必當初，好傻好天真
• 小姐，妳幹嗎要道歉？ (新春秋)
• 大學怪談: 連環女殺手
  - quote: 好奇過了頭，正義感過了頭，還真可以殺人於無形。新正頭，Give us a break，可以嗎？
• Heroku - A ruby on rails application hosting service
• 好天真好傻之後 (聞.見.思.錄)
  - quote: 還要為對方「鞭骨」以示自己的高尚情操，這莫非咄咄怪事是甚麼？
• Commuter Feed: Latest Incidents - Traffic report via twitter
• 朋友‧雜想 (頑石記)
  - quote: 筆者認為讀者也有責任。倘若讀者認為有問題，有責任立即叫停，叫你擁護的傳媒不要再以這種手法報道，而不是當事件發展到失控的地步，大家幾乎把所有淫照都看盡時，你亦滿足了獵奇心後，才指著傳媒說他們做法不妥。
• 給阿嬌粉絲的一段話 (貓眼看世界)
  - quote: 如果把阿嬌換成你的朋友、同事、同學，你也能支持她到底嗎﹖
• 上傳？橫傳？網朋友？朋網友？ (五師兄字)
  - quote: 我突然想起《V for Vendetta》 臨尾全部人一起帶上面具走出街的那一幕……
• 讀今天《頭條》A28版有感 (聞.見.思.錄)
• 黃禍 VI 之星島你福佳啦！ (1-555-CONFIDE)
• 藏有不雅照亦可能犯法？！ (庫斯克的床)
  - QUOTE: 請問鄧處長，是哪一條香港法例？
• 粉絲，讓明星的裸照把你搖醒 (::littleoslo:: )
• ControlC - A web service to store and share your clipboard when you cut and paste
• 不看新相的六個原因 (moliuOLOGY)
• 另角度看淫照風波 (活在桃花島)

I was in Vancouver and missed week 5, then returned just in time for week 6 to start. It's a cold weekend, actually Monday night was -20C-ish after windchill.



Programs continues on Sat and Sun, which went pretty well. My beginners starting to be good at beginner turns, so I trying show them a bit of novice turn.

One new tactic I learned from one of the students is what I now called "flashlight" turn. It works like this: Imagine you are holding a flashlight and pointing to where we are going. Also, you are looking at where you are shining the light. In order to turn, you point your flashlight to the direction you want to go. Most students in the class found this help them turn better. I also successfully using this tactic on new students in the beginner specials. One note to this tactic is that I have to remind students to hold the flashlight straight to align the shoulder with the flashlight, and shining the light by turning their shoulder (instead of just move their hand). In some case, I need to remind the student to keep their back hand align to the shoulder as well.

Sunday morning session, Terry and ez10 did some casual riding with us. Comments on my riding was it has improved, but flex/extension sometimes a bit slow/missing. Actually, what I was doing was trying to flex slowly throughout the turn and hold my edge, but in some cases I feel putting too much pressure on the edge and have to ease off.

Monday night, Terry works with me and Mary-Ann on craving. We start with edging using only inclination and minimal/no angulation, which help to feel the edge. We also try to close up the turns and going across the hill, as well as turn a bit up-hill before starting the next turn. Then we attempt "European crave", try to mimic those on craving-board and touch the snow with our hand as we lean into the turn. Further on we perform some up-hill turns, which we do a U turn on fall-line. This is a dangerous exercise as we are craving across and up the hill until we lose all momentum and stopped. Obviously, we need to pay extra attention to up-hill traffic on this exercise.

What I found in these exercises:
- I am hesitate to pick up more speed, which is need to start a good crave.
- I need to work on transfer edge at 12 o'clock of the turn, just middle of traversing between two turns.
- I need to close the turn more, so my speed are more constant.

Terry believed I am still a bit below the standard for level 2, which means I need to work harder.

From "My tagged link dump":

• Chyrp - A lightweight but functional blogging engine

From "My tagged link dump":

• Ulteo - A remote access to a server hosted KDE desktop