This is just to inform the TOS community that now I am using TOS as an educational tool at Rogers
State University, a small undergraduate school in Claremore, Oklahoma.

I have used TOS as a learning object in my Distributed Systems Development course offered in the Fall
2006 semester, and now, in Fall 2007, I teach a project based course Multi-Agent Systems Simulation.
The latter is using TOS in a five-week project. Then we will switch to the full-blow RoboCup simulated soccer.

I went to Mackfest today to celebrate Alan Mackworth's contributions to AI. It was a lot of fun. I was happy to meet Alan and my sister again. It's been three years since we met last time! AKM is a great professor. I've learned a great deal from him. I also enjoyed the AI text book “Computational Intelligence” he co-authored with David Poole and Randy Goebel. I've read it at least twice.

Without his encouragement, TOS is almost impossible considering it's an after work project for me. With the birth of TOS, came the realization of my true potential. TOS is just the beginning, I know what I'm capable of:-)

I was also impressed by my sister's talk on her PARC robotic research projects. Obviously she's having great fun developing those robotic snakes:-)

What a beautiful Saturday afternoon! Sitting in bed, with a book in my left hand and a high lighter in my right hand, I looked out of the window. Blue sky, no cloud. Looked like it's Spring time for Vancouver!

OK, I hope this will be it. No more coding on this for the rest of the year. Consider this as my holiday gift for ... fellow thinkers. I've just tweaked the program to make it much faster at start up. Enjoy.

http://www.e-graviton.com/galaxy/

I've just released YZGalaxy 1.10. In this new version, you can enjoy the feeling of sailing through the vast space with the stars passing by and the galaxies tumbling around. Welcome to the deep space, the final frontier...

Just watched the PBS show “Monster of the Milky Way”. It is fascinating. It showed the theory and the evidence of a monster black hole in the center of our galaxy. Well, I've long suspected so even when there's not much scientific evidence around. To me, it's common sense. Just by looking at the shape of these galaxies, these spiral shapes. Don't they resemble the whirling water draining down into a sink? There must be a sucker in the center of any galaxy, black hole or not.

I was walking towards a pet food store in the shopping mall. A usual Sunday morning up to that moment, and I was feeling almost completely recharged due to the extra hour I had last night. The shopping mall was quiet and empty. A woman was on the public phone discussing something about “mental illness”. Two little girls were playing on the wooden horses while their mother was supervising them nearby.

A man in his sixties approached me from a corner and asked, “Sir, Can you help me?”
“Yes?” I stopped, expecting a normal question about time or directions.

A Nice day today, but it's getting cold and windy. The bike's kickstand got stuck with the pedals. I managed to solve the problem in a quick way, by breaking the spring of the kickstand. This unnecessary overuse of force has cost me 22 dollars. Well, the bright side is, I will install the new kickstand far away from the pedals, so it won't get stuck again.