Monday, November 07, 2011

Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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I'm of two minds about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks . The book has two themes. One is the triumph of science in being able to re...

Product Endorsement: Wealthfront

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Andy Rachleff gave XiaoQin and I a presentation four weeks ago on their latest wealth management product, and just lifted the embargo on me ...
Sunday, November 06, 2011

Independent Cycle Touring featured in the Mercury News/Oakland Tribue

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Several weeks ago, I was interviewed for a cycling article that appeared last Sunday in the Mercury News/Oakland Tribune. I had other thing...

Piaw's Feed Survey Results

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I want to thank everyone who took the time to fill out my Social Network News Survey . I was very curious to see how many people care enough...
Saturday, November 05, 2011

Hoisted from one of the Buzz comments

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 I have the suspicion Job's deathbed advice to Larry Page was actually his revenge on Google for "stealing" Android. It was te...
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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...