January 16, 2010

Martial art + Kids' birthday party

... was in fact quite fun. :)

January 13, 2010

Global Change in NPP (1981-2003)

Useful resource to see the spatial pattern of land degradation over time, estimated from remote sensing (NDVI) data. It's for NPP, not necessarily crops, but still...

January 13, 2010

HWSD and WISE and DSSAT

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Some slides I made in 2008, to compare soil properties included in the Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD) and the WISE Global Soil Profile Database and their potential use for the DSSAT soil data requirement. We (HarvestChoice) wished to create a smart/magic wand to come up with a soil profile at every grid-cell (10 km) in SSA, combining HWSD and WISE. Many things happened since, but we’re not quite there yet (or, knowing about the dataset/problems better, we may not need to be there any more…).

January 13, 2010

The Future of Farming

via popsci.com

Popular Science article mentioning HarvestChoice's effort.

January 13, 2010

Blip at CSI:Nairobi 2009

via ilri.blip.tv

Starring Stan, Todd, Andy..

January 7, 2010

Heavy Snow in Korea

via earthobservatory.nasa.gov

Record snowfall in Seoul too!

January 7, 2010

What happened to the text highlight option? - PowerPoint

The ability to highlight text in your presentation with color is not available in Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Earlier versions of PowerPoint featured an on-screen highlight marker, but never featured a text highlight option similar to the one available in Microsoft Word.

Instead, you can add a text box with color to surround text that you want to call out.

via office.microsoft.com

Oh, come on - PowerPoint...