James' Café Home Page

James' Café Home Page

This site was accidentally conceived on 18th August 1998. It was re-designed on 22nd June, 2001.

Welcome to my homepage. This site has been the #1 site at M-Web for a while now. I decided to revamp the page to guarantee the best online experience for its visitors.

On this site you can find out a little about myself and my interests. I wish you would find something interesting and useful for yourself.

What's New: Read my weblog at Xanga!!!

> Biography

I am Chinese, born in 1977 in Hong Kong. I just did a Computer Science degree at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Currently I am working as a web designer in a software company. more...

I did the site design by myself. All the graphics you see are original. I hope this humble website will reflect some aspects of my personality, and that you will find this site friendly to use.

My online friends: Grannygang at Yahoo! Groups

> Music

Piano Concert For an evening of romantic, contemporary piano music - I will be giving a piano solo concert at Lucit Candles, Pretoria, South Africa, on the 6th April 2002, at 7:30pm.

I will be playing piano works by two Japanese composers, Yukie Nishimura and Joe Hisaishi. more...

If you are interested, please make a booking with the organisers, Lucit Candles.

> Magic

The Internet has revolutionised the way magicians learn and communicate. A great deal of helpful information is available to get any keen magician started. Since I have been a beginner myself, I would like to help others to get started.

For beginners, you can find some easy-to-do, and yet amazing and very effective magic tricks at the ellusionist web site. Check out a great resource on self levitations at Levitation.org.

> Mathematics

MO and ACM Programming When I was in high school I participated in the Old Mutual Mathematics Olympiad. And when I was in university I took part in the ACM programming competition.

I encourage students who are interested in mathematics and algorithms to find out what these events are, and get involved. It's better to equip yourselves as early as you can.

> Web Design - Bananaseed

Bananaseed If you are a student at the University of Pretoria you know what Bananaseed.com is and what it means for its students. I am one of the major members of Bananaseed doing its web design.

Though we cannot reproduce the excitement of having Bananaseed.com on campus for you at this humble website, here is the radio interview we did with TuksFM if you are interested. Rename the .avi file to .mp3

> Design - Spellbound and Others

Spellbound A company which offers educational services. Every student should visit this site, not just because I did its web design, but the site has many revolutionary ideas on education and you may want to apply for some of the courses it offers. Spellbound.co.za

Others Other design work I did (which I got paid for) include advertisement design and 3D product packaging design.

> 3D Game Project - Reverie

Reverie is a full-scale 3D computer game, probably one of the first 3D games developed in South Africa. It was done by a group of 5 students at the University of Pretoria in 1999, as a Computer Science degree requirement. It won the software engineering prize of that year.

Reverie was a project we were all proud of. And there was overwhelming demand for more related information. However maintaining information for a project of this size is no easy task. more...

> 3D Graphics Research - Ndebele

Any topic on computer graphics will interest me. Feel free to mail me for discussions.

Ndebele It was a research project of doing traditional Ndebele painting in a virtual reality environment. My great friend and fellow student Andries Malan works with me on this project. Professor Lalioti was our supervisor. For more information, here is the Ndebele paper which appeared in the Mar/Apr 2001 issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.

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Email me at respho@mweb.co.za