Welcome!

This is my little corner in cyber space. I took up this web space with a friend to try out my ideas.

General Paper Corner

• English as a Second Language by Li Rong-Chang.
• Cambridge ESOL On-line is the website of the University of Cambridge English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
• Cambridge International Examinations (CIE)
• OWL - Online Writing Lab.
• Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students.
• WannaLearn.com. Education beyond schooling...
• Grammar and Punctuation Glossary. [thanks Kristi]

My Personal Interests

• Tom's Hardware Guide. A place where the IT hardware are discussed and appraised. One of my frequent sites.
• HardwareZone. Great place to find out what out are the latest prices for hardware.
• Email clients. I like to try all sorts of free email clients. I look for simplicity (and perhaps elegance). It does not have to be "bloated" to do a good job.

  Eudora and Microsoft Outlook. When I was using a Mac, I used Eudora. It was my favorite then. But my corporate Email system is Microsoft Exchange. So I am using Microsoft Outlook now. I use both Office 2007 and 2003. Got to unlearn quite a bit to pick up what I'm doing all along. I don't know if you call that progress, but it's definitely learning.

  For people who are used to Outlook, Eudora takes a little getting used to it. Eudora is going "open-source", so wait for the release in 2008. The beta is out but it is still rough on the edges. (update) I'm kind of cool towards Eudora now.

  Popcorn. [8Jul05] I tried a small and simpler program, popcorn. Unfortunately, popcorn is no longer supported.

  npop. [16Nov06] I was using npop as my alternative email client.

  Opera. [02May07] But nowadays, I'm using more and more of Opera. It does not have the traditional folder concept but once I got the idea, I kind of like it. It's powerful and flexible at the same time. [08Mar08] My C drive is getting full and I don't know how to relocate my mail folder for Opera so I stop using Opera.
  [11Mar10] Manage to find a way to point to another location but I've lost interest and move to ThunderBird.

  Sylpheed. I went back to Outlook,and pick up Sylpheed.
  [20Apr08] Sylpheed has become the email client for my personal accounts. Getting better at every iteration.
  [11Mar10] I no longer use Sylpheed although I still like it. The downside is that it uses the MH format to store emails and there are few support for this. I now switch to ThunderBird.

• Karen's PowerTools. Good utilities for doing little stuff.
• RegSupreme. [11Mar10] No longer using this, and now uses "CCleaner". RegSupreme was formerly known as Regcleaner. I like this little utility. It is easy to use and does its job. I have not tried out RegSupreme yet.
• I also like to try alternative Office suite. Or maybe more accurately it should be programs that create files that are compatible with the Microsoft Office Suite.
  Open Office 3.2 is good, or at least good enough for me. You should give it a spin. But my workplace uses MS Office so I find it difficult to switch. I call it inertia.
• I also use a bit of Jarte. It is WordPad with enhancements. My main gripe is that the ruler is not in the default settings. Have to pull it out. But it is fast and has a spell-check module missing in WordPad.

Opinions

• 2 Timothy 2:2 (Entrusting the Word to faithful men). This is an interesting web with many good materials for students of the Bible.
• All the 66 books of the King James Bible