Frank Zamboni's 112th Birthday

Today, Google celebrates the 112th birthday of Frank Zamboni (inventor of the modern ice resurfacer) with a simple interactive game that puts you in the seat of an ice resurfacer and tasked with the job of cleaning and smoothing the surface of ice rinks.

End of 2012...

On the brink of crossing over from 2012 towards 2013...
We look back upon the past in an attempt to gaze into the future...
What has been done and what is to come...

- BuLaDiFu -

Happy Holidays 2012

Gradually...without me knowing, I have already passed through yet another cycle. Its been almost one and a half years since I've started on this bold project of mine and one year since I've gained approval from Google's Adsense.

However, up until this point, there's still nothing much to show and assure myself that I'm trodding down a right path. From the past year's records, it does appear that I'm slowly gaining traffic from a couple hundreds per month till now maybe 5k a month. Earnings-wise, it has increased from 0 cents a day till something like a couple of cents a day.

But day after day, time after time, these nagging questions kept surfacing in my mind...
- Should I persevere? Am I doing the right thing? Should I take it up a notch or just give it up? What will I see at the end of this tunnel? Will it be good or will it be bad?

Hehehe....funny huh? How these sort of things just creeps up to you (everytime) during the end of the year. But oh well...no point in that I guess...I'm already in way too deep. Anyway, I've already given myself a deadline of 3 to 4 years to see how deep this rabbit hole is. And if things doesn't work out by then, I guess I'll have to start looking for another way out. Well, enough of these mood-dampening stuff...there's a whole new year ahead of us all so...

Here's Google's 2012 doodle for the X'mas season

And here's me (shamelessly using their doodle) wishing you

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas

200th Anniversary of Grimm's Fairy Tales

Today's Google doodle features a set of pictures strung together like a picture book depicting the famous tale of "Little Red Riding Hood". This together with other well-known tales like "Cinderella", "The Frog Prince", "Hansel and Gretel", "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin" and "Snow White" were all written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in their first collection of folk tales named Children's and Household Tales (published in 1812).

120th Anniversary of the Nutcracker Ballet

The Nutcracker, is a two-act ballet that was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was first premiered one hundred and twenty years ago on the 18th of December at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.

Ada Lovelace's 197th Birthday

Today's Google doodle features an English mathematician and writer called Ada Lovelace. She is primarily recognized for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine as well as a set of her own notes which she added in (as a supplement) during her translation of an article by Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea (which is also on the said analytical engine).

The reason behind this recognition of the notes is because it contains what can be considered as the first computer program (an algorithm encoded for processing by a machine). Additionally, she and her notes played an important part in the early history of computers as she foresaw the capability of computers going beyond merely performing calculations.