Wednesday, November 30, 2011

2012 Book Reviews

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Fiction The Magician King The Broken Kingdoms The Alchemist Children of the Sky The Kingdom of Gods Lady Lady I Did It Reamde The ...

Review: The Good School

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I came to The Good School as a foreigner who's never been through the american K-12 system. I read an excerpt about how class sizes did...
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Monday, November 28, 2011

2011 Books of the Year

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This year, I read 53 books , of which 4 were Hugo nominees that weren't really novels but novellas. Unlike previous years, however, the ...
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Sunday, November 27, 2011

Review: I'm Feeling Lucky

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I never encountered Doug Edwards in person at Google, so when I'm Feeling Lucky hit the shelves, I took my time getting to it, since I ...
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Review: Facebook Groups

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Some companies just never get good press, no matter what they do right. For instance, in 2006, I switched from Mac OS X (Tiger) back to Wind...
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Monday, November 21, 2011

Review: The Cold Commands

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After reading The Steel Remains , I read that author Richard Morgan intended the story and the universe he created to show how you wouldn...
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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Review: Motorola Baby Monitor 3.5

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For my birthday this year, my brothers gave me a Baby Monitor . I was real skeptical when this showed up on my door step. $240 and it doesn...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Tips for Surviving Childbirth

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These are a few notes that I hope are helpful for those dads-to-be who plan to be involved with the childbirth process. There are plenty of ...

Review: Steve Jobs

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When I read that Walter Issacson was asked by Steve Jobs to write an authorized biography of his life, I assumed that it was to be a sycoph...
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...