A Leslie Wong Blog

A tag cloud is a weighted list of words where the more frequently used words are in a larger font or bold type.

Xeni Jardin at Boing Boing pointed out a tag cloud that Jason Griffey made of Bush�s 2007 State of the Union Address.

I’ve seen Will It Blend? mentioned on the Internets recently and mainly read about how it was such a great viral marketing tool, etc., etc.

It’s oddly mesmerizing video.

noahw, at instructables.com, has a good soldering how-to for beginners. This article might help people who have a broken Hewlett-Packard f1703 flat panel display and are tentative about soldering. The comments following the article also contain some good soldering advice.

Instructables.com’s about page describes their site: “Instructables is a website where passionate people share what they do and how they it, and learn from and collaborate with others. Instructables was started by the partners at Squid Labs because we needed a quick and easy way to document and collaborate on our many projects.”

I was watching Bill Gates’ CES keynote today and Justin Hutchinson, group product manager of Windows Client at Microsoft, demonstrated some Vista features that I hadn’t seen before.

Hutchinson controlled a live.com Virtual Earth 3D fly-over of Las Vegas with an Xbox 360 controller (There was tepid applause). Chris just got an Xbox 360 for Christmas and we’ve been playing Gears of War and Lara Croft Tomb Raider LEGEND, so I thought at least we can get our money’s worth using the Xbox 360 controller on our PCs.

I found drivers for Vista and XP at Microsoft downloads. Microsoft has an KB article on How to connect an Xbox 360 Controller for Windows to a computer. Unfortunately, the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller must need a dongle to work with a PC

elsewhen at digg.com wrote: “some geek took a bunch of pictures of 200 calories of all kinds of different foods… its pretty surprising to see that a small spoonful of peanut butter has the same number of calories as an entire plate of broccoli.”

Looking at the pictures sort of made me hungry.

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