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 […]

Aaah, the corporate gay e-mail list

From: [Name edited] [xxx@yahoo-inc.com]
To: Yahoo! LGBT Stakeholders Group [xxx@yahoo-inc.com]
Time: 12:33pm
[Giant e-mail forward regarding Hilary Clinton’s campaign edited out for brevity.]
From: Rufus, Yahoo! LGBT Moderator [xxx@yahoo-inc.com]
To: Yahoo! LGBT Stakeholders Group [xxx@yahoo-inc.com]
Time: 1:00pm
In the interests of keeping this Group as friendly and non-combative as possible, I would like to discourage the discussion of the political campaign and […]

A completely fictional phone conversation with my mother…

…after the events of today. (Mandarin, like always, is in italics.)

(The cellphone rings.)
Ernie: Hello?
Ernie’s Mom: SEE!? I TOLD YOU YOU SHOULD HAVE STICKED TO THE BUTTERFLIES!
(Cut to Mom high-fiving Steve Ballmer, turning to the camera and both giving the thumbs-up sign. Cue laugh track, fade to black.)

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 […]

Returning to Yahoo!

A couple of months ago, I had written a blog post where I had announced I was leaving Yahoo! to pursue an opportunity in Vancouver. Maybe if this website wasn’t so public I would go into some of the details; instead, I’ll simply say that lessons were learned, photos of myself sitting alone in […]

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 […]