I opened the car door and saw this banana peel placed perfectly for my left foot.
Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
30 Oct
Silver LX3 has landed
When I first read about Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 camera, it was priced at around $400. I was interested but balked at such a high price for a compact camera, only to see the price rise to $500 even at decent outfits such as Amazon and B&H Photo Video. In fact, the LX3 sold so well that [...]
22 Oct
Mediacenter now running Windows 7
Windows 7 is released publicly today. I grabbed a copy of Windows 7 Home Premium intending to install it on my mediacenter this weekend, but since there was no good show to record tonight, I went ahead and installed it right away. Windows 7 x64 installation was pretty sweet and smooth, but once again the [...]
8 Oct
Futile attempts to set up a dev environment
I needed to set up a dev environment to run a new software.
Attempt 1 failed on laptop because software requires Windows Server 2003. My laptop runs Windows Server 2008.
Attempt 2 failed on desktop because software requires Windows Server 2003 x64. My desktop runs Windows Server 2003 x86. Desktop CPU is not x64 capable.
Attempt 3 was [...]
30 Sep
Conspiracy theory on cellphone carriers’ customer support
So AT&T wanted to bill me for 3 roaming calls in UK which I never made, received, missed, nor had voice mails for. In UK I had just turned on my cellphone briefly to verify that I could make emergency calls if I needed. I called AT&T last night and the guy agreed to waive [...]
25 Sep
London Paris 2009
[Update @ 2009-11-18T00:27-8:00] The entire photo collection is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/gadgetdude/sets/72157622332008897/.
We are finally back from our 10-day vacation to London and Paris. I wanted to summarize our experiences quickly before memory starts to fade, so photos will have to wait are still being uploaded.
London (September 7 to September 11)
Day 0 (September 8 )
We flew via KLM [...]
1 Sep
Geography, gender, and sample size
I have reached a conclusion in the past few days regarding geography and infant gender. Based on the people I know, it seemed that those living in the East Bay will have a daughter as first born while the opposite is true across the bay.
Then this evening my theory was proven wrong by a [...]
12 Jul
iPhone push notifications for Gmail
Google Mail (Gmail) is my primary email, but emails in my Gmail account are not pushed to my iPhone. Since I can’t (or don’t want to) switch to Palm Pre and Android, I will have to make do with some workarounds.
Requirements
An always on PC (or Mac if you are an Apple fan)
Growl for Windows (or [...]
3 Jul
Transformers 2: Trying Too Hard
I loved the first Transformers movie, so we went to watch the sequel in theater today. I wasn’t expecting much going in as I had read tons of negative reviews, but I was still hoping for a pleasant surprise. Unfortunately the critics were correct, Transformers 2 was just a summer action movie and [...]
