Info Tech
Jesusphone
I don’t have an iPhone and won’t have one for at least a year or more because I live in Taiwan and iPhones are currently restricted to the worst US cell phone network: AT&T. I also need a phone which will run my Pleco Chinese Dictionary, and the iPhone doesn’t yet support third party applications […]
GDP vs. US States
Via Strange Maps, a chart/map showing US States renamed with the names of countries where the GDP is similar to that of those states.
{maps, GDP}
Web Forms
So you want me to give you all my personal data? Don’t make it any more difficult than it has to be.
Don’t make me fill it out more than once. Something is incorrect or missing? Let me come back and fix it later.
Make it very, very, clear why your system isn’t accepting my data.
Don’t use […]
Burrito Tunnel
Who knew that New York’s turn-of-the-century pneumatic tube system could be used to deliver burritos all the way to from San Francisco? The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel
UPDATE: Transcontinental direction reversed. Thanks TF!
{food, april fools}
Asynchronicity
I never liked team sports, I never liked playing the dozens, I never liked being put on the spot … Its not that I’m introverted - I’m not. I’m just not “quick-witted” (or at least not as quick as I’d like to be). Some people love talking on the phone, love chat rooms, love instant […]
ze
I know I’m not the only one who will miss Ze, as he ends his one year video blog which rocked the interweb.
I think the secret to Ze’s success is that he is a great teacher. He taught his audience how to participate and how to be creative. Here is an interview he did with […]
WordPress CMS
I’ve recently gotten very good at using WordPress to power static websites. The reason being that recent changes to WordPress have made it really easy to do so. Most people think of WorPress as a blogging platform, and that is what it is setup to do out of the box. However, a few minor adjustments […]
Vanity
Vanity is having a dashboard widget (Mac OS X only) for all of your own web feeds. I doubt anyone out there, except perhaps my mother, will want to install this, but I had some fun making it so I thought I’d share it anyway.
It was very simple actually. I used Dashcode to make a […]
ToDo
Why, after just a few days of use, would I switch from using a rock-solid piece of software I paid for and have used for years to a public beta which is full of bugs? My “to do” list is one of my most important lists - if it doesn’t work I don’t use it, […]
Y100
As noted here previously, Taiwan is 1911 years behind the rest of the world in counting years. 2007 is thus the year 96 in Taiwan. So I was wondering … what will happen to Taiwan’s computers in four years? Will Taiwan have its own Y2K crisis in the year 100? Now it is true that […]
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