18, Jul 2006 | Commentary, Social
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign respect for technical incompetence. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. Oh, and we just set fire to your desktop. BYTE editors are people who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then carefully print the chaff. To err is human, but...
10, Jul 2006 | Social, Web
You may remember back in April, I posted [an article about a guy wanting to trade a red paperclip for a house](https://verbum.one/?p=79). His name is Kyle MacDonald. Well, looks like he’s done it! On [his blog](http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/) he says: >...
9, Jul 2006 | Events, Social
About 10 minutes drive from our place, is the Gibraltar Creek, the water catchment area of Canberra city. The creek winds through the mountains to become Gibraltar Falls. We drove out there today. Here are some highlight shots: Worn rock from the creek: Winding...
8, Jul 2006 | Movies, Social, Tech, Web
I recently saw [Primer](http://imdb.com/title/tt0390384/), a movie where two inventors accidentally make a time machine. Great movie, I’d recommend it. It’s available for rent on DVD. Which brings me to this post 🙂 > Time travel goes awry. Doesn’t it...
3, Jul 2006 | Music, Social, Tech
I was reading [this article](http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71248-0.html) on Wired and it reminded me of the [Massive Attack](http://www.massiveattack.co.uk/) concert I saw. At the concert, behind the mixing desk, were two guys with laptops writing code. When...
30, Jun 2006 | Commentary, Social, Tech
I was doing a google on my name to see what my ranking was for this blog. One of the search results listed this site: [http://www.ntonline.cn/temp/changpai06/](http://www.ntonline.cn/temp/changpai06/) Which listed my old credit card number!!!!! Here’s the...
