Silence is better than ten thousand right words
Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
This is an old Chinese idiom. I really need to think about it.
Archive for January, 2005
Trapped in LA
Monday, January 17th, 2005
Last Saturday I went to LA with my wife to do shopping in 99 Ranch. When we were done at 4:30 PM and tried to start the engine of my old 89′ Nissan Maxima, it refused to start. I just got a new battery in Sears last Wednesday, so that made me scratching my head [...]
Switch to my own site
Thursday, January 13th, 2005
I’ve ordered the home package from 1and1.com recently, and I decided to move my blogs over there so that I can get rid of the annoying blogger.com toolbar on top of my blog (why don’t they put it below??). It seems that things run smoothly and I’m quite happy about the results.
An analogy of approaching your customer
Tuesday, January 11th, 2005
Recently I got bugged by our biz people. They got very excited because there are “big fishes” in front of them as they always do. Well, I’m the bad guy who tells people to calm down. Here’s my analogy.
Approaching your customer is like approaching a girl in a dancing party. The first meeting with your [...]
An analogy of software project
Wednesday, January 5th, 2005
I tried to explain to my good neighbors, who are pharmacists, why creating large software is very difficult. Here’s my analogy.
Creating a large-scale software is some task like drawing a picture on a canvas in the size of Dodger’s stadium, and you need to finish it in three months with five artists while detailed planning [...]
Fragile Partition Table
Saturday, January 1st, 2005
During recent vacation time, I tried to resurrect my dead Maxtor HD. I can see it from the BIOS POST screen but I can’t see it in Windows. That makes me pondering. So, I use the TestDrive program inside UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) and found that the partition table is damaged. After recovering it, my [...]