Archive for September, 2007
Big signatures in emails and forums are stupid and annoying
September 28th, 2007Below is the signature added to outgoing mail I assume to every message sent out of (and probably within) JP Morgan. It is huge. Often, this message is longer than the message itself.
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Scientists
September 28th, 2007It’s tragic that scientists exist.
People often think that science is about chemicals in test tubes and electricity flowing through big coils and massive explosions. This is not science. Science is grounded solely in the Scientific Method.
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Capturing frames from a webcam on Linux
September 26th, 2007Not many people are trying to capture images from their webcam using Python under Linux and blogging about it. In fact, I could find nobody who did that. I found people capturing images using Python under Windows, and people capturing images using C under Linux, and finally some people capturing images with Python [...]
Investment Banks Fake Sincerity
September 24th, 2007I think Investment Banks do some good things for the world. I disagree with how they sometimes view the world and interact with people. They can become dishonest and empty.
I received the e-mail below from JP Morgan today. It’s a standard invitation to apply to one of their leadership programs. I’m [...]
Amazon EC2
September 24th, 2007Amazon provides a great resource to anyone with its Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). Right now, the service is in limited Beta, but it should grow and become more open soon.
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If You Approach Your Startup Like Building a Ferrari You Will FAIL
September 19th, 2007I disagree that if you try to perfect your product, you will necessarily succeed. In fact, I contend that you will necessarily fail.
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White headphones
September 19th, 2007When Apple started to sell the iPod a few years ago, they faced a large uphill battle. Apple’s device held less music than other mp3 players, had fewer features, was large and bulky (cf. current iPods), priced itself too high, and came late to the game. Other companies had already established themselves in [...]
Flights around the world
September 2nd, 2007Google added a feature to Google Earth which lets you explore the sky as easily as you can cities on Google Earth.
Also, someone created a cool Google Earth plugin that lets you visualize the paths of international flights on Google’s virtual 3D Earth. The video gives me a feeling of connectedness [...]
Word Frequency
September 1st, 2007Tim Ferriss recommends efficiency in learning a new language. He suggests that you be skeptical in the traditional language education plan. One of his methods for learning a new language is to focus on the most common words which you will encounter.
I started to search for lists of the most common words in [...]