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Continue reading →: Six Days of War: Review
Amazon.com: Books: Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Wow, it is amazing how things don’t change. If you replaced 1967 with 2002, you’d almost have the same story. There are many views on the Six Day War (a.k.a. The June War). This…
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Continue reading →: User Experience on Wireless
Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog: User Interface is an Art: Who controls the user experience?. Another great analysis by Satoshi about user experience. Essentially, when carriers control it well like DoCoMo, Vodafone and Verizon, it seems to work well. It is uniform across devices, etc. That has a big impact on success.
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Continue reading →: Tong Family Visiter Changes
It’s interesting to see how site statistics have been changing. Initially most of the hits on this home page were from the default home pages for my many machines, so the referrers were often tongfamily.com or none. I now get about 20,000 hits per month, so not that many, but…
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Continue reading →: The Matrix and the Matrix Reloaded
I really wanted to just love the Matrix Reloaded. It was a good movie, but not a great one IMHO. I just rewatched the original Matrix and I can see why. The original was filled with mystery. First versions can be. It wasn’t clear what was real and what was…
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Continue reading →: Buying a Touring/Commuting/Crosscycle Bike
I’ve been looking for my second bike. I love my Trek 5900, but it isn’t that practical for all the other things. Fortunately, Steve Hooper told me about Adventure Cycling Association. Here is what I found out: “Buying a Touring Bike”:http://www.adv-cycling.org/features/buyabike2003.cfm. A great comprehensive piece. There is not much on…
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Continue reading →: Won the War, Losing the Peace
Passion for PeaceA great piece by Friedman as usual. The Rumsfeld doctrine of small-force, high-tech armies may be great for winning wars, but you need the Powell doctrine for winning the peace: a massive, overwhelming investment of soldiers, police and aid. We should be flooding Iraq with people and money…
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Continue reading →: Depressed: DVD Coasters Galore
ULead MovieFactory. I’m depressed. I used this thing to create a DVD movie. Now as I’m trying to duplicate 7 copies, I have 1 coaster (e.g., destroyed DVD+R) for everyone that is good. An obvious driver problem where in the middle of a copy, it gives up the ghost and…
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Continue reading →: DDR400 is Here!
Well the next generation of hardware performance is here. There is the new lineup of Pentiums with hyperthreading and also a new set of motherboards based on the i875P and the i865P. Tom’s Hardware recommends getting an 865P motherboard and the 2.8 GHz Pentium IV. I’m on the way: *…
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Continue reading →: dvd to divx backup
Well it’s been six months since I figured out the best way to backup DVDs. Here’s an update on what’s on the web now: * “Doom9.net Guide”:http://www.doom9.org/. This was the source I used before and learned about Gordian Knot. The site has only gotten better. It actually explains what you…
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Continue reading →: Ode to Peta Jane
Alex is learning poetry. Here are some of his latest. First is a kind of neat form: Peta-Jane Awesome fun Busy helping caring Makes me very challenged Peta-Jane I had not heard of this form before, but it has the first and last line are the name of the person.…
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