Archive for the 'environment' Category

Maps, maps and maps

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

These are some really great and fun map projects on the net:
Wikimapia - it’s great, but most of the things I wanted to add are added already. But I did contribute to some places in both HK and in Melbourne. It works perfectly on Camino, but not on Safari. There are some security […]

An Inconvenient Truth II

Saturday, September 9th, 2006

Being too lazy to go out to the movies, I downloaded and watched Al Gore’s presentation about global warming off the internet. He dwells on for 90 minutes about Global Warming and how it will cause some major catastrophe. It was interesting to see how like any other extreme environmentalists, that when showing […]

A little bit of environmental bullshit

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

I was doing a survey on pureprofile and a set of Environmental questions came up.
Here we go again…  After been brainwashed studying Environmental subjects/Earth Science-like stuff for the past 7 years (Year 9-12, then 4 years of uni), I find it hard not answer in the “ideal” way.  Most of my views and opinions are […]

Hong Kong Observatory

Friday, August 4th, 2006

While I am in Melbourne, Australia, when we are in the middle of winter, with occassional showers and cold weather, HK is experiencing strong winds (> 100 km/h) to the point that people are being hit by flying bins. And yet, HKO has only issued a no. 3 typhoon signal. WTF? In […]

An Inconvenient Truth

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

Another one of those environmental documentaries is coming out in May, at least in the US anyway. The title, Inconvenient Truth really captures what’s going on in real life: We know all about global warming from the media, the scientists, politicians (like Al Gore as it was repeatedly shown in the film trailer) and environmental […]