Google recently held the Google Gadget Awards as a way to stimulate developer interest in creating new and innovative gadgets. Although the gadget I personally submitted didn’t win an award, two USC students did win. Furthermore, USC was awarded “Top university for gadget submission,” which is really awesome.
Archive for January, 2007
Wikipedia has a good article on Internet forums. I might find it handy for my presentation Thursday. Perhaps I’ll even join in and improve the article a bit. =]
The U.S. Congress passed the Energy Policy Act in 2005, which takes effect in 2007. DST will start three weeks earlier and end one week later than what had traditionally occurred. This is really interesting to me. Not only is time itself interesting, but we have issues of policy changes, time changes, politics, software, people, perceptions, weather, and so on. Who knows what effects this will have in the future?
I often like to entertain the idea of creating a startup. After all, the fun appeals to me, I have tons of ideas, I like to work hard (if it’s on something I’m interested in), and the potential to quickly have an effect on people’s lives is great too. Plus, you cn get rich, right? Here’s a striking quote from an article called How to Start a Startup on the topic of how to decide who to hire. Continue reading ‘Hiring for a Startup’
It’s amazing how things seem to fit together so well. I wonder how this can all happen without some God making things work. Then again, there are many things that don’t work out. Y2K is one of computing’s successes, it seems. The paranoia caused by media publicity of the problem appears to have really helped the world, even though the fears were unfounded. It’s kind of like the world’s first worm which was released inadvertently in 1988, and unintentionally brought down thousands of UNIX servers. It brought security to the attention of the public, as well as programmers, which almost surely helped to avert later disaster. Supposedly, UNIX before that date focused primarily on ease-of-use, with little attention paid to security.
More commentary on the article mentioned previously. Continue reading ‘Companies of the future may be small’
My comments on an article from a few years back called What the Bubble Got Right. Continue reading ‘Nerds accepted because they’re rich’
In the semon Sunday morning, Brian Chan used the example of Earl Boykins to illustrate differences in perceptions. Interestingly, he’s the shortest player in the NBA and has been “on fire” recently (meaning he has been doing well). I hadn’t heard of him, but my roommate, of course, knew right away.
Compare and contrast Sam, the miserable millionaire and sex-addicted atheist who treats women as commodities for fleeting satisfaction, with Chet the Nigerian taxi driver who is contented, optimistic, sexually faithful and religious. Yahoo News [via Sam]
Did you know there are 27 million slaves in the world?
This week, InterVarsity Bruin Christian Fellowship (IVBCF) had an event called “No Ordinary People.” It was about human trafficking, and today I went to the last session. Yes, I actually went out to UCLA on the other side of town. My friend Jacky gave me a ride out, and I got a ride back with Rachel and Eric.
Continue reading ‘International Justice Mission - No Ordinary People’
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