This page contains links and documents that I have written, or rare, interesting documents that are hard to find. It's an electronic library.

Personal

• My Resume (.PDF) or My Resume (Plain Text)
• Frog's Old Rants..you never knew I had so many things to complain about!
• Picture Stories: The words behind those interesting pictures

Technical

Here are some that are more relevant to Engineering. There are other documents over on my Physics Library.

• How Computer Chips are Made
• What is Rexx?
• Simple Introduction to Laser Diodes
• Simple Introduction to Organic LED's
• "Image Processing for weather satellite cloud segmentation" Abstract and PDF Full Text. Well, looking back, it's not something I'm super proud of, because the quality of the work just isn't there. But at the time, I was fresh out of undergraduate school, I was let loose to do this all on my own, and I got to present it at the big conference, so yeah. One thing down in my biography! (These are on IEEE's Web Site, so you may not have access off-campus, or if you are not subscribed).

This is a template (in Lotus Word Pro format) for UBC graduate thesis. It has all the required sections, and is set up with automatic Table of Contents, Figures and Tables. So of course, the Figures, Tables and Equations are auto-numbered too. Feel free to e-mail me if you don't know how to use it.

• UBC Graduate Thesis Template (WordPro format).

Yes, I totally do not agree with TeX/LaTeX. Also go ahead and e-mail me if you think you have a good argument for using LaTeX. Some frequently made points which I'll save you the trouble of arguing:

• Section/Chapter headings are auto-numbered and styled in LaTeX. Ditto any modern word processor.
• Automatically generate Table of Contents. Duh! Of course, same thing any modern word processor.
• Math typsetting. Do I have to say? Every modern word processor. And I can tell you, seeing it right before your eyes is far easier than typing in the codes, compiling it, and then seeing if you got it right.
• High quality typeset output. Right, who takes their printout to a typesetter nowadays for most things? And if you did, like printing to a Postscript file isn't sufficient? If not, how about simply running a conversion from Postscript to PDF?

Let me just say, most modern word processors automate just about everything, so all you have to do is worry about writing. For example, if you want a Chapter heading, just highlight and mark it as such. End of story. Sound like LaTeX/Tex? Sure, but also the same as any wordprocessor. Same thing for captions, footers, headers, you name it. The word processor keeps track of everything so you don't have to. Most of the arguments I hear for LaTeX/Tex sound like they are from people who don't know how to use a word processor properly. One argument I hear for TeX/LaTex is that it keeps you concentrated on the writing, and it takes care of everything. Sure. Let me ask, who has to compile your document? You. Who has to debug it when it doesn't compile? You. The labour has just been shifted to the compiling from...well, nothing, since word processors auto-number all your figures, chapters, everything, so you don't do it. The only good argument I hear is that...well, it means you can write in just a text editor (so any machine, anywhere almost), and it's stable for large documents. (But the stability factor just comes from poor coding, not any inherent issue with word processors).

I may have other documents too, which haven't been converted to PDF or some suitable format, so just ask.