little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

omgworkcamlol

Since I’m fairly new to the world of Mac, I got to participate in my first video iChat ever this week. This ruled, because while I can officially say it was done to facilitate the need for face-to-face communication while working remotely, it was really just an excuse to play to my inner camgirl.
One [...]

links for 2007-02-27

YouTube - The Internet
I recognize the lower right logo from the CBC. The Internets could be big in Canada.
(tags: internet video youtube news history)

Rosie O’Donnell apologizes for “ching chong” comments from YouTube video
Poet Beau Sia delivers an open letter video to Rosie, she responds on her own blog, e.e. cummings style
(tags: asian youtube 8asians [...]

Post-Mortem

And, I am back from Vancouver, living the life as a consultant here in California. Being a consultant and working from home means many things to many people; as of this very moment, it means that I’m here in a wireless cafe splitting time between doing engineering work, being an editor/blogger for the start-up, [...]

links for 2007-02-14

American and British senses of humour have more in common than we think
An essay by Simon Pegg (”that guy” from Spaced and Shaun of the Dead)
(tags: humor shaunofthedead spaced culture hotfuzz)

links for 2007-02-13

ASCII by Jason Scott: You’ve Ruined Everything
Stereotyped roles in an online community; directed towards BBSes but works for web communities as well.
(tags: community web internet)

Creating Passionate Users: How to Build a User Community, Part 1
Mostly focused on community rankings in a Q&A format and a user reputation system.
(tags: community howto collaboration)

BarackObama, the social networking site
Obama, [...]

links for 2007-02-08

6 Startup Lessons For The Year 2007
Seems like pretty solid advice to me.
(tags: web2.0 lessons startup)

Running With The Bears

My not-so-secret secret is the following: I’ve always felt a little out of place with the gay community. My close friends in college were all straight, and when I had come out of the closet my last year of college I guess I expected this gay welcoming committee where I would instantly have [...]

links for 2007-02-07

Bear411 Sucks
Bear411 is a popular personals site for gay bears: they’ve also denied my membership 3 times for “not fitting in”
(tags: gay bear ohnoyoudidn’t)

My Bear411 Discrimination Story
An Asian man has problems getting onto Bear411; I’m beginning to realize my case isn’t isolated
(tags: gay bear discrimination)

Rouxbe’s Community Blog
I’m not only a developer, I’m also a blogger.
(tags: [...]

links for 2007-02-05

Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Mac OS X
Not only VERY useful for me at the moment, but Dan is a nice guy to have dinner with
(tags: firefox:toolbar rails ruby osx howto mysql)

Integrating Twitter and MySpace
Mashing up something totally geek and something totally, uhm not; requires a hosted PHP page
(tags: myspace twitter)

Netflix’s cover [...]

Why yes, this IS a perfect time to stop smoking

It’s 4:43am. I am in Vancouver. I am wide awake at the moment.
I’m not 100% sure as to why I’m totally awake: it’s not depression and I don’t think it’s anxiety and I haven’t had any heavy caffeine tonight. But if I were to venture a guess, I’m probably awake because [...]