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music inspires me

I have been so inspired by music this week. After watching these 2 video from TED, I have a thought of taking music lesson again. I learned piano when I was a young. I learned not because I was interested but more as a 'career's path to prepare myself to be a piano teacher after my graduation' since I hardly do well in my study. Well, I didn't make it as a music teacher but I ended up as a software engineer. When I hear a song, I can feel my fingers start to move, my feet start to tap, my heart start to count beats and my mind start to wonder. Yeah, music still inspires me...

First video is a performance by a Qi Zhang (organ virtuoso) performing on Yamaha's Electone Stageo.

Second video is by Jennifer Lin (pianist and composer) improvise a solo piece with random sequence of notes.

facebook release engineering

Have a look at this article on how facebook release the 1.5GB binary of new functionality through HipHop, the facebook version of BitTorrent system.

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http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/exclusive-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-facebook-release-engineering/

this full video (52:41) has more in-depth...
http://lesterchan.net/blog/2011/06/03/facebook-engineering-tech-talk-pushing-millions-of-lines-a-code-5-days-a-week/

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Angry Birds Theme Park

Famous mobile gaming app 'Angry Birds' created by Rovio is now a theme park in Finland.

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Ironically this temple in Chichi(集集),Taiwan still stay intact after it was hit by historical strong earthquake known as 921 earthquake which happen in 1999.