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I just started gardening two years ago and it’s been so much fun. I’m trying to grow more food that my family eat, which are Vietnamese dishes. Being in California makes it a bit easier, although it could be cold for some of these tender plants. These are some vegetable plants eaten in popular Vietnamese…

WolframAlpha is launching right now. I just tried a few and see the cheat sheet. The interface is nice and the results were presented beautifully and logically. I’ll definitely use it for its designed purposes and Yahoo for the rest of search queries. If this type of computational search engine were widely available like it…

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What if there exists a system that goes out to all blogs, reads the comments, aggregates them into individual profiles. Each comment often has the name and website. A person shares her opinion at this blog, another one at another blog. Soon enough, you will be able to understand her thoughts. It’s a behavioral data…

The server can set Cache-Control as far as it wants but if the client browser (Firefox, IE, etc.) says something else, the client rules. For example: an image with proper server’s Cache-control and Expires headers. If the client says “Cache-control: max-age=0” in its request, a conditional GET request will send and HTTP 304 code would…

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:76:E1:A2:F8 inet addr:xx.xx.xx.51 Bcast:xx.xx.xx.63 Mask:255.255.255.192 inet6 addr: fe80::216:76ff:fee1:a2f8/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:11098 errors:2178 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1098 TX packets:1493 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:751041 (733.4 KiB) TX bytes:171501 (167.4 KiB) Base address:0x2020 Memory:e0200000-e0220000 If you have packet loss and see RX errors/frame, there could be…

A ship drops an anchor and boom, Internet down! Everything is in chaos and the trend is only get worse as we depend more on the Internet for our every day activities. The following diagram shows just how connected and yet vulnerable the whole system is. Optical Cable Undersea

Just playing with different social network (Facebook, LinkedIn) even I signed up for them a long time to see what I’ve been missing. And I see a reason for using them. Keeping connected with friends is definitely not new, by email, phone, meeting, etc. But it’s time consuming, especially with your larger network. This is…

Managing human resource is difficult, very difficult. I believe anyone runs a business would look at job hunting, resumes, cover letter, and everything about working for someone differently. For starter, determine which channels would be the best to announce your job posting, some costs nothing yet very effective, some are expensive yet yield little. Then,…

YouTube with that many videos uploaded and yet they have a pretty bad interface for upload (comparing to flickr). The newer Multi-Uploader needs to install into your computer and yet still provide a broken web interface (TRANSIENT_ERROR) and would not upload but keep trying (keep cycling through the process), I tried it in different browsers…