I went to a Chinese New Year event in McCarthy Quad tonight. Something with APASS, the Asian Pacific American Student Services, and/or the Chinese American Student Association. I got a free t-shirt, free food, and fun solving those little metal shapes that connect and disconnect. It was a cool event. I liked the fortune cookies dipped in chocolate, as well as the almond jello. I also did some of the first Chinese calligraphy I can remember. I just copied from their example. Jon Lo said the first character might not be right, but I still think it’s pretty cool. Its translation is roughtly: “The studies continues,” some kind of encouragement for doing good work and studying.
Archive for January, 2006
Here’s something I came up with last Friday. Perhaps it’s an original idea that I should pursue in the future. For lack of a better name, I call it the automated depersonlization of writing. It was inspired by a neat Ajax app called Writely, a web word processor. Now, a lot of what you’ll publish with a service like that is likely to be private, and for a small intended audience. But there’s sure to be a lot of information in there that would also be helpful for others. So, what my system would do is scan your text for proper nouns, specifics, and personal details, and automatically change them to predefined anonymous descriptors. For example, I’d write a story about someone. Their name could be changed by the computer system to Bob. This means that life lessons can still teach others, while not revealing anything personal about the actual people. That’s the rough idea: it could be later refined.
I still have people asking me for Gmail and orkut invites to this day. It really takes a lot of time to keep sending them out. Still, there are rewards: I’ve met a good number of people this way, and it has increased membership at the Google Forum. If you’re looking for an invite, there are many sources. Posting a comment on my blog isn’t really a good way. Actually, I should go and delete all those requests… I’ve already deleted many of them. But it just takes too much time to sort through.
When creating your first website or starting out on the web, you’ll probably at some point make a website that’s of interest to a wider and, perhaps, even international audience. Once you’ve written lots of content and uploaded lots of original photos, though, you’re left with the problem of showing people your work, and helping people who are looking for your sort of thing to find you. This is a list of ways to build traffic to your site. Remember, this comes only after you’ve already established a site that may be of value to others. And after promoting, you’ll probably want to work on buliding community and/or discussion on your site, if your topic relates to that sort of activity. These strategies can apply to many different sites, including blogs, journals, and fan sites. Continue reading ‘26 Ways to Promote Your Site’
I joined Newsvine several weeks ago, and I had thought to myself, “What is this?” It just looked like a news website that connected people. But it’s a bit more than it appears. Scott McDaniel puts it this way: Continue reading ‘What’s Newsvine?’
Second time this has happened. “An unknown error has occurred. Unplug your printer and contact your dealer or authorized service center.” Info found here. Continue reading ‘Epson Stylus Color 480SXU Error’
from Influence: Social Proof
He said he know understood the cause of a type of traffic accident that had always puzzled him before. The accident typically occurred on the city freeway during rush hour, when cars in all lanes were moving steadily but slowly. Events leading to the accident would start when a pair of cars, one behind the other, would simultaneously begin signaling an intention to get out of the lane they were in and into the next. Within seconds, a long line of drivers to the rear of the first two would follow suit, thinking that something — a stalled car or a construction barrier — was blocking the lane ahead. It would be in this crush to cram into the available spaces of the next lane that a collision frequently happened.
Do people want to read about my life? or would you rather read about Google, computer problems, or even - how to make money online? These are popular and interesting topics. Certainly some of my posts cater to these interests better than others. so what can I do to improve my writing style? Hmm.. I’ll ask less questions, to start.
Continue reading ‘TCF, Tennis, Econ Minor, Annenberg Center, Mork, and Mark’
I forgot the name of a song that we sang in HEAT (TCF) tonight, so I typed all that I could remember of the lyrics into Google (using “quotes” where I could). First hit is the PowerPoint presentation at my home church, the Evangelical Free Church of Walnut. We don’t have a very elaborate website, but it’s pretty well-indexed anyway. Amazing.
and a lot has happened in just the past 10 years or so. It has now been about 10 years since I first got started in web development. Why the sudden focus on time? I logged into my Amazon.com account and looked at my wishlist. This was listed in my profile: “Suzanne Middle School.” I’m in college now. And I’ve been using Amazon.com since before high school. Think about that.
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