little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

Posts from June 2004

vent, part 2

Dear lady who had a 20 minute conversation on the phone in my cubicle,
Look, I know that my cubicle faces one of the largest conference rooms in the building. And I know you’re probably from some other country over the ocean, so you probably don’t have your precious cellphone so you can’t talk directly [...]


i want my [UNICODE]TV

After two years of living with regular antenna television, I’ve decided to indulge a little bit by shelling out a couple of extra dollars per month to watch channels I wouldn’t be interested in otherwise: Animal Planet. The Discovery Channel. Home and Garden Television.
But the best part of all of this is [...]


Yahoo! Calendar, the serious post

So, if you have a Yahoo! Mail account, you’ve noticed that the Yahoo! Mail site looks a little… different. You would have noticed that if you paid for a Yahoo! Plus account, you now have 2 gigs of space, while your free Yahoo! Mail has 100 megs now. And if you didn’t notice [...]


the songs that make me want to kill myself

From Lia: Her three stick-your-head-in-an-oven bad songs. Hmmm… sounds like an internet meme to me!
(I’ve try to stay away from the obvious, cliched songs: Therefore I will not be writing about the songs that immediately came to mind: “Tubthumping” by Chumbawumba and ANYTHING by the Quad City DJs.)
I NEED LOVE - [...]


G4TechTV r00lz!~

Since I’ve decided to splurge, I now have cable television for the first time in two years. One of the stations on said cable channel is G4TV, the video game channel. G4TV has since merged with the financial troubled TechTV to become the oh-so-clevel name of G4TechTV, which not only offers MiXeD CapPZ goodness, [...]


just another day at the Y!

The scene: One of the visual designers (he’s French) and I are smoking a cigarette outside. David Filo, one of the founders of Yahoo!, walks past us non-chalantly.
Ernie: You know, whenever I see him, I just think to myself, “1.4 billion. He’s worth more money than I’ll ever be able to [...]