Archive for July, 2006
Jotform: Collect data on your blog or website
I have been using this Jotform.com site for setting up basic data entry forms. Just sign up and you can get started in minutes. Once you have signed up you get a default form that you can modify. Most of the things are clickable. I just clicked on the title and typed over the new name for my form. I want to collect data from people who are coming to my party.
Ika Meshi - Rice in Squid
Take a look at this train snack from a place called Mori in Hokkaido, Japan. It is called Ika ï¼eshi.
Yes, That is squid (ika) stuffed with something and sealed at the ends with the stick. What is it stuffed with?
Here is Ika Meshi cut in half.
It has rice inside. The rice is stuffed inside and then the whole thing is simmered in sauce.
The word in the white on top ã„ã‹ reads ika and below that the ã‚ã—reads meshi. The line in the middle in blue talks about the place ika meshi is from - 森 -Mori. Check out the last station from this list of stations in Hokkaido. More pictures of Mori station at Japanese Wikipedia.
Technorati Tags: hokkaido, ikameshi, japan, mori
Using Social Tools for Country Study
I was at the National Library Academy in Singapore last week running this class on Social Tools.
We were talking about using blogs to learn more about countries in the region. A lot of people in South East Asia and East Asia are now writing regularly in their blogs giving us a peek into their lives in these countries. Here are some of the blogs I follow to keep updated on the happenings.
Vietnam
Antidote to Burnout ,
Vietnamese God
Cambodia
ThaRum: Musings from Cambodia
East Timor
Dili-gence ,
Tumbleweed in Timor Lorosae
Indonesia
Blogger Indonesia
Will update more later.
Technorati Tags: culture, puppy
The real reason we came back to Korea for
Pancakes, many pancakes. called jeon in Korean.
Gamefest 2006 and a visit to Johor Bahru
Last Saturday I was at the Gamefest 2006 event organised by Singapore Gamers’ Association. This event brings together gaming enthusiasts interested in meeting fellow gamers and game designers (both board games and computer games). I was talking about using Flash to build mini games for the web and mobile platforms.
The event was at the Woodlands National Library. Later we crossed over to Johor Bahru in Malaysia. There is free wi-fi at the City Square Starbucks. We were looking for a good massage (not the scam ones) place and there was no such listing on Malaysian or JB tourism sites. We ran a technorati search found a Japanese blog that mentioned a new Thai traditional massage place right in City Square. Tourism webs should aggregate blog posts. There are so many people who travel and then write about their experiences and there is a huge amount of data there. The Thai massage place BTW is on Level 3 of City Square. Look for Cyberworld and walk inside. There are couple of Japanese and Thai stores and a Japanese hawker. The massage place is next to the Japanese hawker.