Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"

A very inspirational speech indeed.

Linux related articles

Interesting Linux related articles:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147879/move_your_business_from_windows_to_linux.html

http://www.pcworld.com/article/143396/linux_replacements_for_your_favorite_windows_apps.html

Nano solar video

The very interesting and perhaps promising technology to solve the cost of solar panel issue?

Official site: http://www.nanosolar.com/

Planting my own curry leaves inside a pot

The curry leaves tree just grow pods of flowers















The seed of the curry leaves appear after weeks

Planting my own mung bean inside a pot

Planting my own mung bean inside a pot

Picture of my own mung beans















Picture number 2 of my own mung beans

My Lady's Finger Plant inside a Pot

To reduce the cost of living and also as a hobby, I planted Lady's Finger during my free time.

Here are some of the photos of my plants:

Flowering time
















The Finger's Pod















New Tiny "Finger"
















The young Lady's Finger















The full grown Lady's Finger















Have fun planting !!!

Complete solutions to high oil/petrol price

Well, there are several steps we can do to offset the high oil price.

I personally think we can categorize our steps into 3 categories:
1) Short terms steps to take
2) Middle terms steps to take
3) Long terms steps to take

Short term steps
a) Start a resource saving lifestyles. ie be stingy and live efficiently! :)
(Buy only the necessary, Car pool, efficient appliances, and etc)
Plant your own veggie!!
Lady's Finger
Mung Beans
Curry Leave Plant

b) Earn extra income to offset the extra expenses.
(Find a part time job)

Medium term steps
a) Use combination of alternative energies and oil, thus relies less on the oil.
(Petrol/Electric Hybrid car is the one examples)
Use low cost nanosolar

Long term steps
a) Completely use renewable "alternative energies" like solar, wind, and oceanic current.
(Actually the terms "alternative" is a bit misleading because in my opinion, oil/petroleum should be the "alternative" , solar, wind and other nature based energies should come as first choice, somehow humankind made a major mistake by choosing oil/petroleum as their first choice)
b) Develop new renewable energies that are safe and clean.