Monday, October 31, 2011

Meet 蓝博文（Bowen Na)

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From Bay Area As of last night at 10:27pm, I am a father. XiaoQin and I picked the name because it works both in Mandarin and English (us...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Long Term Review: Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid SSD Drive

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In an attempt to reduce my power footprint, I've recently switched to using my Thinkpad X201 as my primary workstation. This let me ful...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Macbook Rescue Attempt Fail

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Someone gave me a broken Macbook in the hopes of my being able to salvage it. It was a Core 2 Duo Macbook from years ago with 2GB of RAM. Th...
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Friday, October 21, 2011

Review: Presimetrics

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I try very hard not to buy paperbooks. They take up a lot of room, aren't as portable, and are difficult to read compared to books on th...
Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Review: Batman Arkham Asylum (PS3)

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Well, I bought my PS3 + accessories almost two years ago, and still haven't gotten around to finishing even one game. A recent bout of ...

Review: The Last Dancer

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After The Long Run , I had to go back and read The Last Dancer as well. Note that the paper copy of the book is long out of print, and fetc...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Review: Google's Two Factor Authentication

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Earlier this year, Google launched Two Factor Authentication , and some of my security conscious friends switched to it. After some persuasi...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

First Impressions Review: Acer Aspire Easystore AH340

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My 4 year old Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ only had a couple of hundred gigabytes of storage left on it, so I now had to make a decision: do I upgr...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Review: Philips Sonicare Healthy White Toothbrush

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I had one of the old Essence Sonicare toothbrushes , but the battery was getting old, so when my brother gave me one of the new Healthy Whit...
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Sunday, October 09, 2011

Review: Playstation Move Bundle

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Slickdeals found me a Playstation Move Bundle for $50, so I jumped on it and bought one just to see if it was any different from the Wii. I...
Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Review: The September Issue

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The September Issue is a documentary about Anna Wintour, and the process of publishing Vogue's September issue, which is apparently a b...

Review: The Long Run

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After reading The AI War , I felt compelled to go back and read The Long Run , which I last read probably 15 years ago or so. Daniel Keys...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Political Considerations

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Startup Engineering Management deliberately excluded politics from its discussion of management. Since I'm a lousy politician by nature...
Monday, October 03, 2011

Scalability

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I've been helping various startups, and one of the things that's impressing me is how frequently these startups are launched on new ...
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Friday, September 30, 2011

Review: Blood of Elves

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If you wanted to prove that dead-tree publishers are brain dead and will not be missed during the e-book revolution, exhibit #1 would be the...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

REI Series of Talks is Over!

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From BayArea At a WorldCon seminar, Sandra Tayler told me that people get hung up on the bookstore signings, and that's why they try t...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Review: The AI War

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Daniel Keys Moran's Continuing Time series has been one of my favorites. He's a good writer with compelling characters that keep yo...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

Execution Strategy and Business Strategy

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Rebecca Frankel shared on her Google Reader Feed this image: I think it's a great example of execution strategy. A frequently used ex...
Saturday, September 24, 2011

Review: The Dragon Never Sleeps

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The Dragon Never Sleeps ( DRM-free kindle-compatible edition ) was a difficult book for me to read. The first time I tried to read it, I co...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Location Still Matters

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This year's been interesting as I got invited to several startups either to talk or to give advice. Usually, I try to mix it with anothe...
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