Inspired startup

This is a blog site by Andy, a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. I found entries by him very inspirational. I often read his posts. Here’s the link.

Need to write down more often.

I just realized that writing down knowledge or techniques that I’ve already known or practices for a long time helps me organize them in the brain well. Some people talk about a particular topic and I just hear over what they talk thinking “I know about it and have used it already” and then do not join the conversation. That’s a big mistake that I make every single day.

It’s like this: Let’s imagine for seconds. There are many post-its on a table with specific instructions on them for tasks. When there are 10 of them, you can easily find them. However, when there are over 100 or 1000 of them, finding the right post-it note is merely impossible or it will take at least several minutes to several hours. Over time, those post-its will get stacked more and more.

Organizing post-its will definitely get you to find the right one much faster. I think brain works that way. You gain so much knowledge daily basis and if you don’t organize your knowledge well it will be like you have 1000 or move post-its notes everywhere on your desk. I think writing down those things helps you organize your knowledge. Also it can be your future references when you need to recall how you did it in the past.

Samsung LN46B650 Review

I recently ordered Samsung 46 inch LCD TV, which of model number is LN46B650. Actually it has not arrived yet. So I can’t really give a review yet. However, when I receive the TV (which is supposed to be delivered this Sunday), I will definitely update this post as I play with it.

Here’s the photo of the TV set (links to amazon product page):

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pretty xml & json

I was working on a feed project at work and dealing with lots of XML and JSON data. If data were well indented and formatted, my tasks would have been a lot smooth. However, the reality was not like how I imagined as usual.

At first I googled about it. I kinda found one but the application required actual file, which could be okay. However, I could see myself copying and pasting xml into a file and upload, which is not quite ideal.

So I decided to make one for myself and my tasks. Let me know if it works well for you or you find a bug.

Here they are:
http://www.shinstudio.com/tools/pretty-xml
http://www.shinstudio.com/tools/pretty-json

haven’t written anything for more than 1 month!

Honestly I’ve been too bush with my full time work. You know when you have a full time job, you become really busy for anything else unless you slack. 😛

At work, I’m doing some platform migration work for the news section of Yahoo TV these days. That’s all I can say. This work does not enhance the page features at all. It’s “migration” work. That’s all. It gives me some challenges though, which keeps me interested at least.

I’m finally back to where I am.

I read most of emails that were piled up during my vacation and made myself familiarized with all the same protocols and procedures again in the office.

As I just finished my vacation, it’s time to do things that I wanted to do before vacation.

Here’s some photos that I took during my trip to South Korea and Japan:

Japan Trip

South Korea Trip

I’ll be traveling to Japan for vacation.

I’m going to take vacation for 3 weeks and planning to visit Japan and South Korea. It’s going to be a good time off since I started working for Yahoo back in 2006.

So in the next couple weeks, I’ll do some photo blogging at flickr.com.

Cleaned Apple Mighty Mouse

Apple Mighty Mouse is a really great product in my opinion. Especially the ability to scroll 360 with the small ball on the mouse has been the best feature for me. However after several months, the mouse started acting up so when I scrolled down, it would not do the job.

After couple search keywords, I found some useful sites about cleaning up the mouse and I decided to clean it up. However, there was price I had to pay. The thing was that the oval shaped object was glued to the mouse body. And I took it off from the body although it was glued. When I was reassembling it, I had two choices for the oval thing. First option was that I would have to attach it back to the mouse body using super glue or something like that. And then second option was not to bother to put it back again. I went with 2nd option. 😛

Anyways, since cleaning the ball, the scroll works like the way it did when I got it for the first time.