Articles in the Life and Personal Category
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Normally, I don’t post entries like this, but I just had to this time. I am starting to believe that I really do have a nice personality. I have been getting this a lot lately, and so many people can’t go wrong.
This weekend, I hung out with members of a social networking group I had never met with before, and a couple of the people called me a “go-getter” with a very nice personality. Needless to say, I was flattered!
Then, last month, I got an email from a …
Life and Personal, Tech and Culture, Travel »
Background: Google runs a mapping service that’s available for mobile devices, as well as in the form of an application for the iPhone. Microsoft’s subsidiary TELLME Networks runs a similar service, only with more features available on their free 411 service.
So, last week, I was in downtown Washington DC for business, and decided to get a hotel room for the night. Someone suggested the ‘Renaissance’. I quickly keyed in the hotel name and location on my iPhone and Google presented me with the address and the phone number. Only problem …
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“You have a lot of support behind you, and a lot of people want to see you succeed”
After the last couple weeks, I don’t doubt that at all!
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So, I upgraded the Wordpress software to version 2.3.1 last night, and due to some changes in my database tables, couple of functions in my PHP code got broken. It would probably take me more time to fix these than to implement a new theme, besides, it was time to change it anyway.
Hence, be on the lookout for a new blog layout soon! I plan to redesign my site, too.
Economy, Life and Personal, Tech and Culture »
I have come to believe that you’re a smart shopper if the stock price of the company whose products you consistently buy keeps on going up.
Since my move to Apple products, and since the time I bought AAPL stock, it has gone up roughly about 10%. I own a Mac, an iPhone, Airport Extreme and Express, couple iPods, and some Apple software. It is the best operating system I have ever used, and I find Objective C so much better than anything else I have seen, it is amazing. Java …
