Technology
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Happy 10th Anniversary
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. -Cyril Connolly It’s already November. What year is it, 2011? Holy cow, I’ve been blogging for 10 years. Not that I write much (see my pathetic first post). After 10 years, I still hate writing (most…
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How Back to the Future Should Have Ended
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1 min read
Best alternate ending EVER!
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Simple Desktops: Steve
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I’m no Apple fanatic like many of my friends, but I was saddened to hear that Steve Jobs died yesterday and I do appreciate good simple design. Check out this simple desktop wallpaper called Steve. Credit. News here and here. Download.
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BSOD Screensaver
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Since it was my friend (and former cubicle-mate) Kurt’s birthday this weekend, I was reminded of the prank I pulled on him early in our working years. It’s great to be the IT person in the office because you get to play around with everyone’s computer and make it seem “legit.” So one time, I…
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Spotify Invites
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So I’ve been playing with Spotify, the new music service that will let you stream all you want from a library of 15 million songs for free (for the next six months, after which it will be capped at a limited number of hours TBD). But to add features, like listening to music on the…
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Google+
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I haven’t been online very much recently, but I’ve been playing around with Google+. I’m sure everyone’s on by now (if you are, add me, google plus me, + me, whatever). But if you’re still looking for an invite, leave a comment. Update (July 10): Check out this Google+ cheat sheet: Image courtesy of Simon…
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Turntable.fm
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1 min read
Anyone try turntable.fm yet? You can chat and DJ for each other in a room. I’ve been on and it seems pretty interesting. I believe it’s still in beta right now and open only to those who have Facebook friends who are already on. So all my facebook friends can log on now. Let me…
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Gaopeng: The Chinese Groupon
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China’s version of Groupon called Gaopeng.com went live today. Looks like they only offer deals in Shanghai and Beijing for now. It’s partially funded by Tencent Holdings, China’s largest internet company–the one that runs QQ.
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How Watson Could Have Been Beaten on Jeopardy
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I couldn’t help it. Jeopardy’s my favorite show. via Borepatch.
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Obama meets with tech business leaders
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President Obama was here in the Bay Area having dinner last night with some important people. It must be pretty awesome to be there taking these pictures. Check out a Q&A session with Pete Souza, official White House photographer. Anyone recognize the people at dinner with the President?
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IBM computer on Jeopardy
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Don’t forget the IBM computer is on Jeopardy tonight, tomorrow, and the 16th!
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Testing Google’s Chrome OS Laptop
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Update (Dec 21 evening, heh): The screen has auto-adjusting brightness. Which means it automatically turns brighter in a bright environment and auto-dims in darker environments. A couple weeks ago, Google announced that they were giving away some laptops for people to test out their Chrome OS. This weekend, I received an unmarked package (suspicious, right?)…
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Move Window Buttons Back to the Right: Ubuntu 10.04
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1 min read
This is mainly for my own documentation. I’ve already had to do this twice when I was playing around with different themes. Standard Ubuntu 10.04 has the window buttons on the left (like on a MAC), but I think I still prefer to have them on the right. Open a terminal (Applications > Accessories >…
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Google Voice for Students
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Google just announced they’re giving away Google Voice invites to students. If you’re a student, visit google.com/voice/students and enter an email address that ends in .edu. Your Google Voice invite will arrive in your inbox within 24 hours. Keep in mind that only one invite will be be sent per email address and Google Voice…
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Quick, Grab Your Arabic Domain Name
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Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses that contain no Latin characters. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to have so-called “country codes” written in Arabic scripts. The move is the first step to allow web addresses in many scripts including Chinese, Thai and Tamil.
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Sweet Escapes
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This is the time of the year when I track airfare prices to Asia. For flights within Asia, Ctrip.com usually has pretty good prices. I got this email from them today. I archived it so I can come back to it later, but something about the email seemed odd to me, but I couldn’t tell…
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Calculate your Shanghai taxi fare online
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1 min read
Don’t get ripped off again. Calculate your Shanghai taxi fare online.
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Google’s New Approach to China
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1 min read
Google has announced that they’ve stopped censoring their search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, that allows uncensored search in simplified Chinese. They’ve also created this new web page, which will be updated regularly each day, so that everyone can see which Google services…
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The Next Generation of Social Media Users
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Published in The New Yorker 03/15/2010 by Mick Stevens.
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Google Reader Play
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1 min read
I love using Google Reader. It helps me keep up with topics I’m interested in or stay up to date with my friends blogs without actually visiting every single one. I’ve tried to tell all my friends about it, but a lot of them still don’t know what it is or are too lazy to…