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Thoughts and Rants

Random thoughts about nothing in particular

Virgin America: How a Bad Website Can Kill Good Will

In I've Journal, Thoughts and Rants on 17 May 2009 with 11 comments

Please make sure you read updates below on how Virgin America resolved our issues with the help of Twitter. Great customer service there but the same couldn’t be said for their phone support at the time. Ever since Virgin America launched, I’ve been eagerly waiting for the opportunity to fly with them. I’m a frequent [...]

Getting the Most Out of SxSW Interactive

In Thoughts and Rants on 13 March 2009 tagged austin, sxsw, sxswi, texas with 2 comments

I lived in Austin, Texas from 1999-2003 and have attended SxSW Interactive every year since 2004. Each year, I attended SxSW each year with a different role: 2004: Tom Chi and I were nominated for the Web Awards for our design webcomic, OK/Cancel (we won but that was just gravy) 2005: Also on behalf of [...]

Kamekame-huh?

In Thoughts and Rants on 26 January 2009 tagged asian with 5 comments

I grew up on anime. In particular, like every teenager in Asia, I grew up watching, reading and in my case, drawing Dragonball Z. It was easily the most popular series in its time (the equivalent title nowadays would be Naruto). So when I found out there was going to be a live action movie, [...]

Facebook Has License to Sell Your Photos

In Thoughts and Rants on 4 August 2008 with 10 comments

I’m seeing two trends lately. The first is that more people are posting with to Facebook exclusively or both to Facebook and Flickr. The second is an increasing number of my photographer friends using Facebook to promote their photography by posting their photos there. I can understand both of these trends, of course. Facebook is [...]

This Week

In I've Journal, Thoughts and Rants on 29 August 2007 with 1 comment

This week My brother’s getting married Our apartment got a notice to vacate One of my best friends got engaged Phew.

Flickr Old Skoolers Having a Fit: A Response From a Yahoo

In Thoughts and Rants on 1 February 2007 tagged flickr, yahoo! with 9 comments

Disclaimer: I work at Yahoo!, but not on Flickr. These are simply opinions of mine. Three things happened in quick succession this past week: – Flickr limited number of tags to 75 and number of contacts to 3,000 – They also announced a date when the users who aren’t using Yahoo! accounts would have to [...]

Why I’m Not Getting an iPhone nor ModBook

In Geeky, Thoughts and Rants on 17 January 2007 tagged apple, axiotron, iphone, macworld, macworld2007, modbook with 3 comments

The iPhone was announced amidst much hoo-hah last week at MacWorld. Those who know me know that I’m a gadget person but have been surprised to find I’m still using a Nokia 6100 phone – the same phone I’ve had for three years. Make no mistake, I’ve been shopping for a good integrated phone for [...]

Texts That Would Have Sucked

In Thoughts and Rants on 13 December 2006 with 5 comments

My friend Daniel was running late for the bus and I sent him an SMS saying, “bus is here”. He replied, after barely getting on the bus, “txts would have suxd”. Which got me thinking, what text messages would you really rather not receive or are rather useless as text messages becasue of their asynchronous [...]

Life Goals

In Thoughts and Rants on 11 October 2006 with 3 comments

I’m totally procrastinating on stuff I need to get done. In the meantime, I might as well write something, right? A long time ago, I set out with some life goals. These are different from the goals that everyone talks about (3 or 5 year ones) in that they’re more singular things you wish to [...]

Self Pontificates and Subsequently Self is of the Existence

In Game On, Thoughts and Rants on 20 July 2006 tagged eets, games, grrlgamer, instant messaging, jamie, penny arcade with Comments Off

KC: y’know KC: i hate the tycho writing style sometimes KC: the whole “i shall use long words or confuse an otherwise simple sentence to make it look like i’m a better writer than i am” KC: “mallows of the marsh” JC: where’s he say “mallows of the marsh”?? KC: he doesn’t JC: but yeah [...]