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Thoughts and Rants

Random thoughts about nothing in particular

Facebook Has License to Sell Your Photos

In Thoughts and Rants on 4 August 2008 with 3 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 merge their accounts with a [...]

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 2 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 no comments

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 i [...]

Knowing What You Want

In Thoughts and Rants on 4 July 2006 tagged personal with 10 comments

For the most part, my blogging since moving to San Francisco has either been professionally related (the business, the comics and the conferences), my short movie reviews to remind myself what I thought of a movie, and small random and somewhat humorous anecdotes. It’s not exactly your LiveJournal kind of navel gazing content and I [...]

Wrong Window Redux

In Thoughts and Rants on 19 May 2006 tagged humour, instant messaging with 4 comments

Whilst procrastinating and chatting with Elea, she said “whoops” and that triggered a really old exercise we conducted here wherein we came up with really bad things to send to the wrong IM window.

I figure it’s time to try that again and see what people come up with. Only this time, try to stay away [...]

Pet Peeves, New and Old.

In Road Warrior, Thoughts and Rants on 18 May 2006 with no comments

New - people who stuff their massive carry-on, slightly less massive carry-on that’s supposed to be their “personal item”, their massive jacket and their duty free bag all into the upper compartment, thus occupying the entire compartment, thus causing others to have to check their bags from the plane, thus delaying the flight. There’s room [...]