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A moment of silence for Andrew Frow, Mechanical Engineering student from the University of Toronto who died in a solar car accident on his way to Waterloo during a solar car tour across Ontario and Quebec to promote alternative energy technologies.

Some time in 2002, I entered an online drawing contest hosted by Oekaki BBS, a Japanese web site. I never expected to win, so I didn't check to see what became of it. I noticed a bit of traffic coming from oekakibbs.com in today's access log, so I checked what the referring link was all about. It turned out that my entry placed 49th (out of hundreds of submissions.) Nothing spectacular, but not terribly shabby either, I guess. I'm surprised people voted for my drawing at all! The Japanese comments were an especially fun read.

Midterms start on Tuesday. 3 more assignments have been added to my plate for this week. I have two more interviews lined up (Tuesday and Wednesday.)

At this point, it doesn't seem like I'm going to be working out-of-province in September, but that's okay. This means I'll have a bit saved up for a graduation trip to Europe next spring. It also means that a trip to California is in the works. I'll figure out when that is going to happen after June 18th. Hopefully, I'll get to visit more of my friends in the Bay Area this time around. I only saw a couple of them when I visited in February.

On a somewhat more interesting note, it appears that Nokia is interested in sponsoring Robotic High Five. How exciting!

I owe an apology to all Opera users. This web site does not render as expected when using Opera. Opera's browser agent cloaking feature further complicates matters. But fear not, for I am on the case.

Please leave a comment below if this page looks ugly in your browser.

Hi, my name is Winona and welcome to my web site, winnietong.com. This is the 11th version of my personal web site since 1996.

Prior to version 11, I used to hand-code all of my personal web pages and scripts from scratch using a text editor. I was really proud of that. In an ideal world, I would have programmed my very own content management system too, and this web site would be running on it. Fortunately, others have already done a great job of it, so there's no need for me to reinvent the proverbial wheel.

I have installed Movable Type and Gallery to make my life easier. Theoretically, this means that I will be able to spend more time churning out interesting layouts and quality content for your enjoyment.

This web site will be in a constant state of flux over the next couple of days.