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November 2009

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“Salty coffee also makes sense in a place where shaved-ice desserts are topped with corn kernels and breads get slathered with sugary frosting and bits of pork.” —Some Salt with Your Coffee? Taiwan’s Hot Drink - TIME
Nov 30, 2009
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Nov 29, 2009
“I was waiting for a friend near Yurakucho station today. Near the station there is a fruit stand selling all kinds of fruit. As I waited, I made a little observation that got me thinking.
The fruit stand was packed to the gills with fruit, all meticulously stacked and ordered into piles, rows and boxes. One would think that a shop like this does brisk trade given all the human traffic from the station - thousands of people must pass this shop every day. However, in the 10 mins I was standing there, nobody bought any of the neatly ordered and boxed fruit.”
— Business Lessons Learned from the Fruit Stand - Yongfook’s posterous
Nov 29, 2009
Nov 27, 20091 note
“Let’s apply some logic: the seed can not be very random, otherwise one could just use the seed generator instead of the random generator.” —Tichy on Hacker News | A common bug in published code
Nov 26, 2009
Nov 26, 2009
Linux Compose Key | Derek Sivers → sivers.org

That’s so bloody clever I never knew it existed.

Nov 26, 2009
SENG: Gifted kids at risk: Who's listening? → sengifted.org

“A Synthesis of Research on Psychological Types of Gifted Adolescents”

Most common personality types are NP on MBTI.

Nov 25, 2009
“How late can I get you the revisions and still have it ASAP?” —How about 2001? (via clientsfromhell)
Nov 24, 200930 notes
Lost in translation

clientsfromhell:

I once had a client call me in a panic from their annual holiday in France:

CLIENT: I have an urgent problem…

ME: Ok, what’s up and I’ll see if I can try and fix it

CLIENT: Well there’s something up with my site and I need you to fix it immediately. I’ve just gone onto my website from the villa and the whole site is coming up in English not French.

ME: That’s correct, it’s an English website.

CLIENT (at this point very irate) : I know, but I’m in France!!! Shouldn’t it be in French when I log on from France so that French people can read what I do?

Nov 24, 200942 notes
Spellbound by Janet Minor

simko:

I have a spelling checker;
It came with my PC.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I’ve run this poem threw it;
I’m sure your pleased too no.
It’s letter-perfect in it’s weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.

Nov 24, 200920 notes
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Nov 24, 2009128 notes
“16. Don’t Steal Music. Music and other content purchased from the iTunes Store is for personal lawful use only.” —iTUNES STORE - TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Nov 24, 2009
“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.” —Pete Seeger (via simtan) (via quote-book)
Nov 24, 2009238 notes
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” —A.A. Milne (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
Nov 24, 2009385 notes
“But in the last year or so, the attitude has shifted dramatically from “no one is using mobile data” to “oh my God, there’s so much demand for mobile data that it’ll destroy the network.” —Mobile Opportunity: The mobile data apocalypse, and what it means to you
Nov 24, 2009
Words Only Clock Widget for Mac OS X Dashboard → experimentgarden.blogspot.com

The Qlocktwo, adapted to JavaScript, and now finally packaged as a widget, a better solution than the Web Clip I was using, which broke with captive hotspot auth..

Nov 19, 2009

I’ll try and spend more time with my piano this holidays. Been feeling so deprived of it recently.

Nov 19, 20091 note
“It is very easy to get ridiculously confused about the tenses of time travel, but most things can be resolved by a sufficiently large ego.” —Terry Pratchett’s The Last Continent
Nov 18, 2009
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