• Holding Up the Sky My Singaporean Roots Crisis

    By Maisarah Miskoon                  An esteemed musical composer by the name of Zubir Said once cited the Malay proverb “Di mana bumi dipijak, di situ langit dijunjung” (“You should hold up the sky of the land where you live”) as inspiration when composing the significant piece of music,… Read more

  • My Euro-trip (Spain)

    By Erik Squire  Yes, it’s everything they say it is. Europe is incredibly beautiful with all of its historical architecture, superior coffee, and colorful people. I had the good fortune of spending three weeks there this summer and visited four countries in that time. Due to it being an impossibility to write about all my… Read more

  • Maine Seaweed Festival

    By Jennifer Lague On Saturday, August 30th there was an all day event on the SMCC waterfront called Maine Seaweed Festival. The Festival consisted of many tents with vendors who sell seaweed-based products: a tent for lectures about the uses of seaweed, children’s activities, yoga and live music. The festival was by Hillary Krapf and… Read more

  • Tech Talk: TeamViewer

    By Shunming Liu  I was using WebEx for network meetings for many years, but mostly for a business. That needs a lot of money to get the related service. Is there an alternative solution for having a virtual meeting on line for free? The answer is yes. I think that Team Viewer will be a… Read more

  • Tech Talk: Cisco Packet Tracer

    By Shunming Liu This summer I joined the CCNA boot camp. There is a network simulation tool named Cisco Packet Tracer, which I think can be handy. Just like saying the name, it can simulate the packet transfer process between routers and switches across the enterprise network infrastructure. It is also a very useful tool… Read more

  • And The Beacon Locomotive Engages Again…

    Garrick Hoffman The doors have opened, the engines are fired up, and we’re officially in motion again, folks. The Beacon of 2014 has returned for round two. We’re wildly excited, and you should be, as well. In the 5+ years of The Beacon’s tenure, this is the earliest an issue has been published. Cheers to… Read more