• http://www.sharecg.com/index.php
• http://3dcollections.net/
• http://archive3d.net/
• http://www.highend3d.com/

This site gfx-3d-model.blogspot.com/not only have some 3D models, it has great PSD brushes. Worth a check.
What is animation without any audio?

www.freesound.org/index.php

This provides a great list of short sound clips, suitable for characters that require short audio clips.

Resources for learning animation

• http://pushingposes.blogspot.com/2008/03/basic-walk-cycle-part-1.html
• http://cartoonmeltingpot.wordpress.com/

Hope I can get my animation done soon, and move on to many other important things. Although I have always been interested in animation, graphics, drawing, etc. But then again, I’m always interested in so many other things. Sigh. Jack of all trade, master of none.

I myself have been confused with what to do at this junction. I don’t see myself where i would be in 5 years time. I have no plans. I have too many things on hands that I “need” to clear, too many things that i’m interested to learn more. I always have this problem of getting interested in too many things and never master any of these things i’m interested in. I’m a jack of all trade, master of none. How many of you have these problems like i have? Too many interesting things, information overload i say. That’s why i use smplayer to play my videocast, podcast 50% faster, trying to clear these things fasters. But how many of these are useful in my future, and add value to myself? A recent check, i have 32Gb of podcast/videocast to skim through! Ouch. Why bother…. Probably i should just Select All and delete, and i won’t skip a beat.

On conversation witha old friend of mine, have made me more determined to work out what i should be doing and to plan, focus and getting things done! Many of the things we discussed strike a chord with me. We both want to do something in our lifetime.

I have many ideas and things like always. Thus I have been thinking. How can I get more focused and really concentrate on what I want in life. Somethings in my life
1. Family
2. Job related improvement, there is just so much things to learn and explore in game development, it’s scary.
3. Getting to be more financally stable and wise.
4. Technology and innovative ideas. I’m always fascinated by technology and innovative ideas.
5. Photography. I always wanted to take better photos.
6. Several business ideas and web application that i have in my mind

How often do you have a TODO list? I have a TODO list reminding me for bill payment, birthdays, clearing up of house on my WM phone. But it dawn to me, probably i should put my bigger goals under my TODO list? So basically these goals are to be put on the TODO list, to constantly remind myself what are my goals. This hopefully will get me to understand the bigger picture and making me focus on what’s important. There is only 24 hours in a single day after-all! So we need to prioritize what’s important in our life! We have to let go some things in life I suppose.
So, sit down, think about what you want to achieve in life and put it right on time of your TODO list. When thinking about what you should be doing, or should you be doing a specific thing, make sure that it’s part of your big picture TODO list. Good luck everyone, hope things pan out as what you have planned.

Everything is down and out.

US banks are low low low, Citigroup is now 3.46, lehman crashed and burn.

www.mysinchew.com/node/20681 ……. 16,000 Singaporeans Lost Jobs Last Year

www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aDUTELnSlccU&refer=asia

Quote from bloomberg: About 300,000 jobs may be lost by 2010, two-thirds of which are held by foreigners and permanent residents, economists Cem Karacadag and Kun Lung Wu wrote in a report received today. The number of people on the island nation may fall by about 3.3 percent to 4.68 million by 2010, Credit Suisse said.

So many bad news.
It’s pretty depressing to see so many bad things especially financially, it really hit hard. Hope there can be a recovery in sight, or least hopefully i know what to do to tide this over or even ride on this.

But this is tech fashion

technabob.com/blog/2009/02/03/my-document-folder-laptop-case/

Seeing this reminds me of the laptop casing for Mac Air

People making use of what Steve Jobs used in the keynote as an actual laptop holder

www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/airmail_manila_folder_notebook_sleeve_for_macbook_air/
This is what i call “The Obvious”. But it’s a nice touch.

I then tried to google uberkey, then realised that it was actually spelted as yubikey instead of uberkey.

Yubikey is a usb keyboard that generates a 12 character yubi ID, and a 44 character OTP or 44 static characters long password on pressing the button found on the token. The concept was interesting, especially we don’t need to rememeber long cryptographically strong password anymore. The price pitch was rather attractive @ 25USD for a single unit, and @ 20 USD when the MOQ is 10.The yubikey support openID login through it’s yubiID and OTP authentication. However this like any other OTP systems, it requires an internet connection to verify the authenticity of the id and OTP. There are several API and source code available for the development of the yubi key.

I was thinking of how can i use the yubikey for multiple sites w/o compromising the key, one possible solution on using this on multiple website or login, could be to prepend the password with a password that you normally use and subsequently use the static password generated by the yubikey. Some issues i normally face while doing such things is that the website only allows password of length which are like 12 characters or so. What is wrong with these sites? Coming to this point, i usually do a md5 on my password(which depends on which site i visit), for example my google account password could be googPASSSWORD and yahoo could be yahoPASSWORD. [Psss i use vimperator to do a md5 hash on my password, by pressing "o md5 googPASSWORD". ] This is then entered as the password for my login, and some of them refused it as they only allow 12 characters. Sites that only allow 12 characters worry me, i have visited site and registered with site that stores my password in plaintext! First i assumed it is in plaintext, because when i request for a forget password, they return me the same password that i have entered. What is wrong with these sites, they should have a reset password function during “Forget password”. It is also unlikely that they have encrypted the password with a public key and subsequently decrypted it with their private key, this is way too much work compared to the reset password feature! So how do you remember all your password. Another way to avoid all these problem of password for websites, is to make use of www.bugmenot.com, they have pre-registered accounts that just works. This is very useful for sites that require log in before downloading, searching in forum, etc.

SSL certificates as talked about in Security Now 177, has been kinda of compromised. Only for md5 signed certs though. It seems that a group of researchers made use of 200 PS3[Yeah powerful PS3 SPU at it's best?]  to brute force a fake root CA certificate that is valid. This would then allow them subsequently create SSL certificates for any site! The podcast talks about how to fix this locally on your PC, by removing all the CA certs that are md5 signed. Do check the podcast out for more details on how to drop these certs from your OS.

Been busy these days, going to post more later on.

But i did managed to sift out tantan-flickr, it was one of the better plugins with quite a large number of user base as well.
tantannoodles.com/toolkit/photo-album/

I managed to do some modification to it to allow non-hardcoded shortcode flickr images templates for albums.
Here are the changes, yymv, basically it resolve issue 96 found here code.google.com/p/photo-album/issues/detail?id=96

pastebin.com/m637c0d27

Quite a bit of changes i wanna make to tantan-flickr, it’s a great plugin and a great place to start typing away at.

Lots of cleaning up and clearing of stuff on my harddrive, since it’s new year right?

Some interesting things i came across over the cleaning up of my harddrive.

From watching Hak5 ep 416, clearing up my 40 gig of podcast!
1. Ping.fm, allows blogging or “pinging” to multiple site. Seems pretty useful, especially you will have a simplified entry page.
2. SSH tunnelling, finally a video with instructions on doing ssh tunneling.

Some fun commands I used in cleaning up my dns323, and portable hdd
1. Sorting directories based on directory size
du -d 1 -s * | sort -n
Or you can check out this site.
www.ducea.com/2006/05/14/tip-how-to-sort-folders-by-size-with-one-command-line-in-linux/

2.  Freeware directory size
- treesize
- windirstat

3. Exiftool
Command line exif tool

Some wishes of the coming year.
Good health to all, from family to friends to the financial system