Some interesting facts in life.

A nice sad song

盧冠庭

從前.現在.過去了再不回
紅紅落葉長埋塵土內
開始終結總是沒變改
天邊的你飄蕩白雲內

苦海,泛起愛恨
在世間,難逃避命運
相親,竟不可接近
或我應該相信是緣分 <我這輩子都不會走,我愛你>

情人別後永遠再不回 <幹什麼?><那個人的樣子很怪哦><我也看到了>
無言落寞放眼塵世岸(願來日再聚) <....好像條狗耶>
鮮花雖會凋謝,但會再開(為你)
一生所愛忍讓(守候)白雲外

苦海,泛起愛恨
在世間,難逃避命運
相親,竟不可接近
或我應該相信是緣分

Personality Test

My friend sent me a personality test.  Below is the result:

这种人的个性是既老实又朴素，刚开始可能会被应为是个很无趣的人，但只要和你交往久了，就会发现你也拥有意外的特质，也是个很有想法的人。虽然在团体中不是很出风头，但仍能过著幸福的生活，而且，如果可以待在充份发挥自我专长的领域下，就会有渐渐崭露头角的机会。这种人的个性是既老实又朴素，刚开始可能会被应为是个很无趣的人，但只要和你交往久了，就会发现你也拥有意外的特质，也是个很有想法的人。虽然在团体中不是很出风头，但仍能过著幸福的生活，而且，如果可以待在充份发挥自我专长的领域下，就会有渐渐崭露头角的机会。

I think it's quite accurate.  What do you think?

Post MBA Life

I have been really busy for the past few months finishing my MBA.  It was such a relief to complete the program.  To be honest, I never thought I would enjoy the program so much.  The MBA is definitely a valuable experience especially for someone with a technical background before.  It really balances the precise quantitative mind with the big picture perspective.  So what will I do after become an MBA?  Well, the next thing I want to do is to find a good piano teacher and learn some piano.  I played electone (japnese electric piano) before so I do know how to read music notes but now I prefer to play some classics on a piano.  Maybe it's because I am getting older? :P

Blogging For Business

Just finished my Business Blogging class today.  It was a great class and I learned a lot from it.  It's nice to see technologies from a business perspective.  As a software developer, it's so easy to delve into the technical details and forget about the big picture.

First time for the past 2 months, I can sit in front of my computer browsing the internet without worry about courseworks.  Feel so relaxed.  I wander at Amazon and it recommends the book on the left to me.  Sometimes I am really impressed with Amazon's artificial intelligence.  I may check out the book tomorrow in Borders.

Interview with Mena Trott

Today, Businessweek has an interview with Mena Trott, founder of Sixpart (mother company of Typepad).  In the interview, Mena touches upon different challenges her company is facing and the future direction of blog.  She commented:

"I think personal blogs are really the future, and with that comes a challenge for blogs to be more friendly and welcoming"

I agree this is going to be the main usage of blog in the future too but I am surprised she doesn't mention anything about corporate blogging.  In fact, a reader of Businessweek immediately brought up the use of blog in small business / startups to market their products.

Can We Live Without WiFi?

Read an article about Lakehead University's banning on Wifi.  I have mixed feeling about this.  On one hand I praise the university president's concern about student well-being but on the other hand, I doubt whether he understands the technical details enough to make such decision.  But one thing I am sure, there is a huge impact in their admission in the future.  As people are more and more relying on the internet these days, access to it from anywhere in a state-of-the-art campus is almost a requirement.  It is out-of-date to see all the ethernet cables floating around in classrooms and libraries.  Also, It can be a major inconvenience to students and faculties as this may limit their activities only in an ethernet enabled classroom/lab.  I think banning wifi is just a means to an end and doesn't cure the root of the problem.  What we need is better study of the effect of EM wave to our bodies and safer technology.

Pocky - Black Seasame Favor

Tried this new favor of Pocky tonight.  It has a very strong seasame favor but that's not the only ingredient.  It actually has 4 more: black rice, black soybean, black pine and black quince.  I am always impressed with the creativity of the Japanese.  You can buy this in Tsai Grocery next to the Godaiko Japanese restaurant.

Blogging To The Government

I was searching for more interesting stories about different people using blog and landed on this blog.  Our Speaker of the House Denny Hastert is also trying out blog to communicate with people in the country!  It's even more encouraging when he said:

"This is Denny Hastert and welcome to my blog. This is new to me. I can’t say I’m much of a techie. I guess you could say my office is teaching the old guy new tricks. But I’m excited. This is the future. And it is a new way for us to get our message out."

The sentence "This is the future" gives blog a promising future to become a communication channel in coroporation and government.

Vlog = Vodcast = Videoblogging

Came across the term vlog in digg.com and looked it up in wikipedia.  It turns out all three words are synonyms.  I believe this is the same as Prof. Gibson's idea of adding videos in a blog.  I think this will be a great idea to include in the future.

New Blog Analytics Tool For Nicetaste.com In the Future

AdaptivePath has recently announced to sell Measure Map - a blog analytics tool - to Google.  Jeffrey Veen, now employee of Google, said in his Google blog first day in Google, "our mission remains the same: to build the best possible user experience so people can understand and appreciate the effect their blogs - their words and ideas - can have."  It seems like Google is getting serious in improving its analytics capabilities.  I have signed up to Measure Map's account waitlist so that I can use it in www.nicetaste.com later.  I bet Sitemeter will be in serious competition with Google soon.