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Archive for August, 2009

found many "Allen Hsieh's" on Facebook after a quick search… #
as hard as it is to believe… my life is back to normal… thank God… #

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20-11!!! that's some spanking! and i didn't get up early enough to watch the game? man… #
watched the G.I. Joe movie today. Not impressed. The plot doesn't make sense and is too simple… though it's got great CG graphics! #
haven't follow others' tweets for a couple of weeks now… feels isolated [...]

The Internet has changed the way we communicate with people. There’s no question about that. And that communication evolution is still going on… I remember when I was still in college more than 10 years ago I’d get a lot of e-mails from friends on all kinds of topics. Some [...]

(Here’s another Apple related post…)
I haven’t been a fan of mobile computing and I’ve been saying that for a long time to anyone who’d listen. Even now with my Nokia E71, I don’t really do much other than checking e-mails and browsing the web. (I’d also use it to update Facebook and Twitter [...]

This is not to be arrogant. Apple is a very successful company. But still there are some things I’d do differently if I were running the show there… I thought it’d be fun to share my ideas.
1. Roll out a variety of iPhones
iPhones have been a hit for Apple. Apple went [...]

看台灣的新聞讓我心情很沉重。居然有朋友跟我說,沒有四川地震死傷慘重,所以算還好。怒!災害是這樣讓人去比較的嗎? #
reading "why apple is more valuable than google" http://tinyurl.com/pydpys but actually, neither has a product that i use regularly… #
Celebrating my 300th tweet… i signed up for twitter long ago but never got into it untel recently… who would've thought… #
RT @arrington (just kidding, the G2 is so awesome) // oops… #
RT [...]

Bless Taiwan

In: Current Affairs

13 Aug 2009

Taiwan has been hit really hard by Typhoon Morakot. Watching the news on TV is heart breaking for me. Below are some images of the devestation. And making things even harder to swallow is to know that the government has shown a total inability to deal with this disaster!

You can go to [...]

Not much has been said, since the news first came out at the end of July that a 25 year-old staff at Foxconn, Applie’s iPhone manufacturer in China (though Foxconn is a Taiwan based company), committed suicide after losing a prototype of the next generation iPhone. We still don’t have a lot of details [...]

i'm actually looking forward to the beginning of a new week (aka Monday)! #

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It seems like Yahoo just can’t catch a break. Last week, as everyone had anticipated, Yahoo and Microsoft finally signed a agreement that would let Microsoft take over search and search advertising for all Yahoo sites. And still Yahoo’s stock got punished after the news came out. (see coverage on Techcrunch)
Sure, Yahoo [...]


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