My /feed/* links used to redirect to Feedburner when you’re not coming from Feedburner, I did that with .htaccess rewrites. But at some point I screwed up my .htaccess file and the feeds were not being redirected properly. I noticed a significant drop in subscriber count at Feedburner but I thought maybe people just unsubscribed. I fixed the redirect yesterday and the subscriber count went back to normal. Thanks for subscribing! If you’re reading the feed you will notice a bunch of new items from del.cio.us and Flickr, this is because I burn those at Feedburner so they will show up as unread or new posts. I don’t point my feeds directly to my Feedburner URL because I want to keep the option open if I switch to a different service in the future.

btw, I also turned off Facebook notes auto-import from Feedburner a while back and disabled the notes application.

When I first setup this blog 2 years ago, I went with the default permalink structure in WordPress. All the new blogs I helped configure I went with a more readable and SEO-friendly permalink setup. I didn’t change mine because of existing incoming links and also if 2 URLs go to the same content Google ranking will drop significantly. I looked into an easy way to do a 301 redirect and found a permalink migration plugin, it’s pretty awesome and does exactly what I wanted (301-redirect old permalink to the new structure). Now the URLs look a lot better, instead of the post ID I have the date and the post title in the URLs. 🙂

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It is hard to believe that half of 2007 has passed already. It seems like yesterday that I was smoking hookah and taking pictures at Tayson’s nye party… Suffice to say that lots have happened in my life in this period of time, but I look forward to the new half and the future with hopes and excitements. To those who have been there for me and reached out to me in the most difficult times, thank you so much!

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This morning I gave my resignation at work, I’ve been doing semiconductor stuff for quite a number of years and I want to do something different. I am going to join a stealth-mode Web 2.0 startup as first full-time employee and VP of Technology. It is a social/community site (surprise!). I really love the idea of the site and I’m VERY excited about it. I can’t say more until we do a small “friends and family” beta, which will be in the very near future. I will probably start a company blog and maybe a site development blog on tech stuff such as Ruby on Rails, DHTML, CSS, AJAX, JavaScript. (or a single blog with both news and development/tech articles.)

We don’t have an office now, I will be working from home or wherever with WiFi/EVDO for a while. But when we get an office it will be in San Francisco (and it will be dog-friendly!), I’m looking forward to finally moving to the city for real. For those who don’t know me personally, I live in the south bay Mon through Thu and in SF on weekends. I have my lease until late October though, so I might stay here til then. (my condo in Santa Clara is real nice, I’ve looked at a lot of places and this IMO is one of the best, if you’re interested in taking over the lease, let me know and we can probably work something out! 🙂 )

If you know me from the past and wanna keep in touch, or if you’ve been reading this blog and want to connect with me professionally, feel free to add me at LinkedIn (or Facebook). I’d also encourage you to subscribe to the feed in your favorite RSS reader/aggregator.

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So my dad recently started blogging, pretty damn cool… He even got himself a pro Flickr subscription and has been uploading all the pics from like the past decade onto it, kickass!

His blog is in Chinese, so if you can read Chinese, you can check it out at here, or subscribe to his feed here (powered by Feedburner!).

Looks like I just passed post id 1000 with my Sugarcane Okinawa post (http://blog.andrewng.com/archives/1000)!! I don’t think that actually means I’ve written a thousand entries here, like if I delete an entry it takes up a post id, but I guess I am very close to it. 🙂