little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

Leaving Yahoo! (Again.)

I haven’t been to the office in the past two weeks.
Two weeks ago it can be easily explained; I was at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. And while that in itself could be a separate post, last Friday was also my last day at Yahoo!. Yes, again.
Which is why I’ve been […]

The BravoNation Book

So like any good web application, BravoNation, the site I’ve been working on at Yahoo!, also offers a badge. This is ours, developed by Jeffrey Bennett.

Kinda cool, huh? Kind of like that scene from Jurassic Park where that eight year old girl says she knows Unix. (And if anyone wants an invitation, […]

BravoNation

(I’ll make this post short and sweet, as I accidentally lost my previous blog entry. And honestly, I’m getting tired of seeing embedded videos of myself.)
But yes, I can now officially talk about BravoNation - the project a group of us been working on in the past couple of months and one of the […]

Two Things I’ve Learned From Eating Alone in Vancouver

This is the first time I’ve eaten out alone. Well, okay, the first time I’ve eaten alone that isn’t a fast food restaurant or a burrito truck or coffeehouse, but an actual restaurant where the point of the institution is to sit there with someone else, eating food together. Eating out has always […]

Heroin-In-A-Tube

My mother is in my condo right now while I’m working from the living room. She is cleaning my bathroom, with the pretense of cleaning my bathroom, but I’m fairly certain she’s really looking for something incriminating that she can lecture me on later - maybe she’s expecting to open up my medicine cabinet, […]

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 […]

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, […]

Introducing Rouxbe… now with embarassing alcohol story

Now that I’ve made the announcement that I’m leaving Yahoo!, I think it’s about time to talk about where I’ll be working, complete with embarrassing interview-related story.
I’m going to be working at a food based website named Rouxbe, pronounced “Ruby.” (Get it? Roux, like the sauce? It’s a pun. Yeah.) […]

Leaving Yahoo!

So, this is one of the most difficult decisions I’ve had to do in my life so far, but yesterday afternoon, I submitted my two-week resignation notice at Yahoo!. My last day will be Friday, January 26th. I’m going to be working as a full-time consultant for a start-up Internet company based out […]

An open letter to someone here at work who used the bathroom too loud

Dear anonymous co-worker sitting in the stall in the men’s bathroom:
You know, having a badge is a way of life in corporate America. Like you, I also have to prominently wear a badge that has my name and photo somewhere on my person. And wearing your badge on your belt often makes for […]