February 2012
2 posts
My new blog post
Google
I think this site is amazing.
The irony of hard decision making
This topic came up the other day when I was talking to a friend. I used to be known in my family as the worst at decision making. They always joked around about my equivocal responses to even trivial matters. At some point, I grew out of that. What makes a decision difficult? A decision is difficult when there are compelling reasons to go for each side. The harder the decision is, the less you...
September 2010
1 post
Fixing Textmate's font appearance on an external...
A problem that had been plaguing me for a while was my main programming text editor’s font appearance was dimmed whenever I launch it up on my Dell 3008WFP. To make things tricky, the problem only showed up intermittently. Sometimes it would look perfectly fine. See the pictures below for a comparison. See and download the full gallery on posterous It took me a while to figure out what...
July 2010
2 posts
Facebook fail
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Hello. This is my title.
Sometimes I just don’t wanna post by email. I want to post using the web interface but it’s incredibly hard to find. I can’t shift tab here unfortunately to get to the title. Posted via email from Ebook Secrets | Comment »
June 2010
1 post
iPhone 4 ad in Tokyo subway
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November 2009
0 posts
Taylor Swift reminds me of a fox..
So I started searching for foxes and to my surprise I found the Swift fox! How cute.
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October 2009
4 posts
USC vs CAL
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I was watching the USC/CAL game with a couple of my friends at Manny’s (formerly Raleigh’s) when my friend got into this heated argument with these two girls from USC. They were being obnoxious and bitchy, and if they were dudes, they would’ve got their ass kicked.
I missed the first half of the conversation, but from what my friend had told me, they kept bashing Cal, saying USC is better...
Instant Messaging Asthma
guy: why is continually earning less
guy: than ur peers
guy: some horrible injustice that needs to be righted?
guy: see thats the thing
guy: i love that our generation, for lack of a better description
guy: is idealistic
guy: and wants to do bold things
girl: yea
guy: but
guy: we also have this very
guy: disturbing
girl: ego?
guy: sense of entitlement
girl: yea
guy: yeah
guy: you and i
guy: are not entitled to anything
August 2009
1 post
May 2009
1 post
“We’re just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own...”
April 2009
3 posts
7 meanings
I didn’t say she stole my money - someone else said it
I didn’t say she stole my money - I didn’t say it
I didn’t say she stole my money - I only implied it
I didn’t say she stole my money - I said someone did, not necessarily her
I didn’t say she stole my money - I considered it borrowed, even though she didn’t ask
I didn’t say she stole my...
My friends say I should Tumblr more
And I will, armed with the iPhone Tumblr app.
February 2009
1 post
January 2009
1 post
The Social Swiss Army Knife for Websites
I’ve just installed a new widget on my blog, as you may be able to tell on the bottom right of the screen. This widget will provide my blog with social features (interacting more with my visitors), aggregating my identities (identities are other areas of the web that I “own” such as my Flickr account), and finally, a way for me to easily exchange traffic with websites that have...
November 2008
1 post
Compensation
I just watched an TV show yesterday called High End Prostitution. It was a show detailing the practices of an exclusive call girl business where its clients include top professionals such as lawyers, doctors, and businessmen.
I’d imagine that how these very successful men were raised had a lot to do with their seeking out of women at this stage of their lives. In the show, it mentioned...
October 2008
1 post
Brainstorming
This is adapted from an article that I’ve read, “The Perfect Brainstorm.”
Sharpen the focus. Start with a clear problem statement at is at the right level of specificity. Take extra care to not already do part of the brainstorming by creating a solution in the problem statement. An example would be to have an open ended topic such as “ways to help drinks cold in the...
July 2008
1 post
Svalbard Global Seed Vault - Wikipedia, the free... →
June 2008
1 post
On negotiation
Negotiation is a widely used skill. I’ve encountered various articles on negotiation and they might be useful to know and to practice. These are notes that I’ve summarized from various articles.
6 Habits of Merely Effective Negotiators Mistakes: 1) Neglecting the other side’s problems 2) Letting price bulldoze other interests There are potential joint gains to be realized, most...
March 2008
1 post
“A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head”