little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

Time Suckage

My old-school blogger friend Ariel is writing a book pitch around her 52 Nights Unplugged project, and recently sent out an e-mail:
The sample chapter I’m writing this week is I sat down to check my email, and woke up watching kitten videos: Internet addiction time warps.
I’d love to hear your stories of your worst web […]

Hello Kitty gets an MMORPG

Like the other ten million people out there, I play World of Warcraft. It’s a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG for short; I go online and I can fight monsters or other players from around the world. But today, a new MMORPG has entered a private invitation-only phase that could possibly […]

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 […]

iBlogPost

Tomorrow, I leave for my first two-week trip to Vancouver to work for the new company.
On Monday, my new MacBook came. It’s funny - I’ve had a computer in one form or another for over the past twenty years, and this is the first Mac I’ve ever owned. Not that I’m an anti-Mac […]

Someone at CBS is jumping on the Web 2.0 bandwagon

Whoa, the web page to the new season of The Amazing Race now has buttons to StumbleUpon, Digg, BlueDot and del.icio.us.
I’m not sure how I feel about this; I see Middle America being all “WTF” and clicking on the link out of curiosity, and then surprise! They just gamed the system. And people […]

coding / codeine

True story - A couple months ago, after another long night at work, I got pulled over by the CHP doing 75 on the freeway. “You’re up pretty late,” he said. “What were you doing tonight?”
“Coding,” I replied, as I handed him my license and registration.
He looked startled for a second. “Coding?”
“Yeah, […]

Proof that the dot-com era is over. No, seriously.

I just got this e-mail from Patrick:

just popped over to your portfolio site (since i’d never looked at it). the link for deluxetrader[.com, a former client site I had done work with at marchFIRST] now redirects to… well… masterbates.com.
it’s funny if you’re familiar with web culture (two clicks away from porn!!!!), probably fairly upsetting […]

Steve Jobs

A recent dinner conversation with my friend (and fellow ex-coworker) Shannon:

S: So how’s the job hunt going?
E: It’s not. I mean, I’m looking, but there’s not a lot of demand right now. How bout you?
S: Eh. It’s been better. I have some interviews for some HR and Office […]