little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

Political Posts + A Japanese Translation Webpage = More Hilarity

Quite possibly, the best weblog ever. Also check out the nude and shameless A-List page.

Disco Will Never Die! (snicker)

On the TiVo last night: ABC’s The Disco Ball! Laugh, laugh away to your hearts content. Don’t you feel better now? Good.

(The scene… Paris, Big Mike and I are watching Cheryl Lynn singing “Got To Be Real.”)
Big Mike: You’ve heard my theory about what this song is about, right?
Ernie: [...]

Co-workers + Giant SUVs = Hilarity

So, I have this co-worker, Sanjay. He’s an engineer who arrived to the United States from India around a year or so ago, and this Christmas, his wife and baby arrived as well. He’s really smart and a little on the introverted side, but for only being here for such a short amount [...]

RSS Feeds

In the “things that will not interest 90% of the people reading this” category: I have a RSS feed.
RSS, for those of you that don’t know, is a way to syndicate website content to other places, such as another website or a news aggregator. If you know of a lot of websites that [...]

Who Needs Blog Fodder When I Can Just Visit My Family (Part 1)

Chinese, like always, is in Italics.

Mom: Ernie! I bought something for you from QVC. Look, it’s a Hangaway! It opens like an umbrella and you can hang all your clothes from it!
Ernie: Mom, it’s enormous. Where am I going to put this?
Mom: Silly boy, in your room, [...]

Office Space

The Dot-com days are over and done with. I know that, everyone else knows that. Sometimes, web development in the corporate life still needs some getting used to. Let’s flashback to four months ago, for example:

Project Manager: Hey Ernie, we need a splash screen done.
Ernie: You know, I do other [...]

California and a Shiny New Quarter

Vote for the State Quarter of California. If I didn’t know anything better about the state that I have lived in my entire life, I would assume that California is nothing but the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Golden Gate Bridge is nice, mind you, but it’s known in my inner circles as “that damn bridge,” [...]

Yet Another Shameless J-Pop MP3 Download

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted any J-Pop MP3’s for mass consumption. Now is a better time than any, right?
But instead of the sugary sweet Japanese or Korean MP3’s I’ve uploaded in the past, this time I’m uploading Chihiro Onitsuka’s “Shine.” If you’ve seen the Applied Materials Commercials on CNN, [...]

“W3C’s Redesign,” or “John 3:16 (Thunderpuss Remix)”

A lot going on in my personal life, but I have surprisingly little to say in front of so many people. So I won’t go there, for now.
It’s slow goings-on at work, however, so I’m keeping myself busy by thinking up redesigns for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) webpage, using valid tableless XHTML [...]