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Thoughts and Rants

Random thoughts about nothing in particular

Just Keep Telling Me Facts and Keep Making Me Smile

In Thoughts and Rants on 27 April 2006 tagged lyrics with 2 comments

What are you holding out for? What’s always in the way? Why so damn absent-minded? Why so scared of romance?

For the Chinese in You

In Thoughts and Rants on 18 April 2006 tagged littleyellowdifferent, yahoo! with no comments

Late last year, Yahoo! gave out jackets for their annual gift. Even though the jackets weren’t exactly stylin’, everyone still lines up for it because - it’s free. Ernie pointed out that it’s especially bad if you’re Chinese. It’s genetically implanted in us to go for the free stuff, even if we really don’t give [...]

Conference Virgins and Conference Friends

In Thoughts and Rants on 6 March 2006 tagged conference, okcancel, sxsw, sxsw2006, sxswi, ted, ted2006 with 5 comments

At TED, they had a term called “TED virgin”. I can understand why they say that - it really is one of those experiences where you have to have been there to understand what it’s about. Some aspects are not unique to TED, however and the concept of a conference virgin is one of them.

Over [...]

At TED

In Design Discourse, Geeky, Thoughts and Rants on 23 February 2006 tagged alpc, conference, connexions, gapminder, hans rosling, infoviz, nicholas negroponte, ted, ted2006 with no comments

Day two of TED conference (where I’m uploading pictures as soon and often as I can). This conference was meant to be the change of pace from the many design conferences I tend to go to. TED stands for Technology Entertainmend Design and has just an incredible speaker lineup (which I really can’t do justice). [...]

Anniversaries and Valentine’s Days

In Thoughts and Rants on 9 February 2006 tagged anniversary, love, valentine's with 1 comment

We all know V-day is an over commercialized “holiday”. The chocolate, flowers, presents, all the pink and red everywhere … even if it is a sweet day to remind ourselves to show our affections, it’s a little much to take from the stores all saying “buy our stuff!”.

Today a friend mentioned that her and her [...]

Ending Conversations

In Thoughts and Rants on 25 March 2005 tagged instant messaging with 4 comments

Ever do that thing where you say a joke and everyone laughs nervously but either don’t really get the joke or think it’s not funny? The nervous laughter is inevitably followed by awkward silence.

In the land of instant messaging, laughing seems to be a convenient conversation stopper. Check your history or log files and you [...]

Girl Power

In Thoughts and Rants on 19 August 2002 tagged love with no comments

I watched the director’s commentary on Starship Troopers last night. Mostly, it was for humour value because my friend Fahad had heard the director Paul Verhoeven gets really excited during the commentary like an old lady at a bingo game.

Anyhow, there were a few repeated themes. One of which had me thinking more than I [...]