Silicon Valley Musings

This weekend one of the parents standing along the sidelines mentioned it would be great to have club t-shirts for next week’s tournament.
When I got home, I whipped up a logo using Photoshop and uploaded it to Zazzle. I emailed the link to the team roster and order my family some shirts. It took less […]

Robert compared Microsoft and Google’s automated switchboards.
Several people commented that talking with a person is much preferred. I agree. In this day in age, a company should have all of the information that can be retrieved from an automated switchboard system easily accessible on a company’s Website. All the easily automated transactions (e.g. monthly […]

Ze Frank wrote about this new phenomenon called Lip Dubs going on over at Vimeo.
Here is his favorite.

Here is mine.

The weather has been so great the last couple of days I was just about to head down to Yamagami’s Nursery in Cupertino and buy some heirloom tomatoes to plant in the back yard.
But this great Blog, Growing Gourmet Tomatoes in the Bay Area, suggested I resist my urge for now and plant them in […]

Today was Ze Frank’s last episode of The Show.
I’m just going to start from the beginning and watch them in order, just like early summer reruns. No, can’t do it. It seems counter to what Ze was trying to do.
The last episode makes think of…
- It’s back to Jon and Stephen for a daily dose […]

Great advice.
It is from this very interesting NY Times story by Professor Michael Pollan, UC Berkeley.

I had a chance to visit Macworld today. It was packed. All the public parking garages around the Moscone Center were still full at two in the afternoon. The woman handing out badges said they had over thirty five thousand people attend today, some arriving as early as four this morning to get in line […]

I saw this ad in eWeek and couldn’t resist the verbal and visual pun.

We recently spent our spring break on holiday on Maui.
We joined Seafire Charters to visit Molokini on a snorkeling tour. The Seafire departs from the Kihei boat ramp. This is quite convenient if you are staying in Kihei or Wailea.
They have two different tours; we took the three-hour tour, which started at 7:30am.
The Seafire […]

During a presentation on suicide prevention that I attended a part of my teaching credential program, some Santa Clara County suicide statistics were presented. Here are my comments on the statistics.
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In the suicide statistics presented, suicide rates are calculated using the formula:
Number of Suicides / Size of Population * 100,000
This formula and its use of […]