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Technorati got some serious latency problems right now

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I used to have a “view blog reactions” widget from Technorati in the single.php and index.php of my template, today I just noticed my blog is loading REALLY slowly, after 5 minutes of investigation I narrowed it down to this Technorati script:

<script src="http://embed.technorati.com/linkcount" type="text/javascript"></script>
<a href="http://technorati.com/search/<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="linkcount">
  View blog reactions
</a>

I commented that out for now, their site is loading ridiculously slowly over here with my EVDO connection as well…

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hella busy

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life has been good but busy as shit, sorry for not blogging enough… what I’ve been up to:

  • Ruby on Rails stuff, a ton of it… more on this at OnMyList blog, site is kindda in private Beta right now, first day has been good, test users love it so far, a ton of stuff to work on, obviously
  • looking for a place to live in San Francisco, almost found one last Sunday but the landlord wouldn’t allow Fee-Fee, sucks big time coz I loved that place… Looking more this week, hopefully will get lucky… I got everything like credit reports, pay stubs, offer letter, etc etc, ready on my SD card in my phone now, all I need is a nice place and the right timeframe
  • finally got a residential parking permit for North Beach (Area A), also picked up a $20 parking card so I won’t need quarters
  • working from wherever, coffee shops, at Sherry’s place via EVDO… She really needs to get Comcast and Airport Extreme…

Haven’t been on Superfuture much lately, might post a fit later this week… I’ve been rocking the 45rpm Jomons 90% of the time, there is not much noticeable fade, I guess it’s true that natural indigo jeans that were hand dipped >20 times don’t fade fast…

Bottega Veneta sale @ SF store starts Monday + other sales

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We were in the area yesterday and decided to pop into the Bottega store to visit Megan and check our the store post-remodeling (we actually hadn’t been in there since they closed for remodeling). Everything looked great, they have RTW stuff and shoes now… They got a light pink color for S/S, pretty easy to get dirty though IMO… We found out that a lot of the stuff would be marked down by 30% on Monday, actually if you go in there today they should be able to put it aside for you. Sherry is gonna pick up a braided bracelet. Happy shopping…

Archive also has a 30% sale right now, I’m sure a lot of other stores got sales going on as well… I might go check out the Nice Collective sample sale today…

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Moving on…

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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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Yup, get one of the Fuji’s

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I’ve said this many times, when asked what digicams I would recommend, I always say Fuji’s. There is really not much point to have a camera that looks sexy but it turns shitty pics. Of course if you’re not ever gonna shoot indoor or at places with very limited available light (like bars/clubs/lounges), then yeah, pretty much any modern digicams would work.

Now, Amazon is not gonna be happy that they’re kindda recommending something like the inexpensive F20 over $500 models from Canon or Sony or Nikon with some fancy image stabilization technologies… 🙂

Compact Camera High ISO Modes

Many decent compacts can produce almost SLR-like quality at their lowest ISO, but whatever the marketing departments of the camera manufacturers may like you to think, there is no way you can get acceptable results from a small sensor compact at high ISO settings – some struggle even at ISO 400. The only exceptions are the Fujifilm FinePix F30 and F31fd, which use a combination of large pixels (lower megapixel count), clever sensor design and clever noise reduction to produce decent results at ISO 800 and usable results at ISO 1600 (the ISO 3200 mode is, however, a step too far).

For ‘serious’ photographic purposes your options for high ISO photography with a compact camera are very limited. You’ll get perfectly acceptable results using the lowest ISO and a tripod, but if you want to produce decent enlargements (in some cases anything from 6×4 inches up) you’ll find the high ISO modes are of very limited use.

Of course the manufacturers would argue that compact cameras are not ‘serious’ photographic tools, and for the ‘average’ consumer – the typical ‘point and shoot’ user – the loss of resolution and detail is not as important as getting the shot, recording the moment. This is true, but as our studio tests show in some cases the output isn’t even as good as a decent camera phone, and would, we suspect, be disappointing to even the least discerning snap shooter.

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Free Plaxo Premium upgrade for Comcast HSI customers

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Nice, if you use Comcast for broadband now you can get a free upgrade to Plaxo Premium by clicking here. I just upgraded my account, good shit.

plaxoed! » Quick Plaxo update [Mark Jen?s life @ Plaxo]

Our Comcast partnership was announced! Yes, that?s right, we are going to be powering the address book for Comcast. (btw, if you?re a Comcast High Speed Internet subscriber, you can get Plaxo Premium for free by going here)

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Thinking about redoing my photography website

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Since about a year ago I migrated my snapshots gallery from Gallery to Flickr. Since then I’ve used Flickr for pretty much all my image sharing/hosting needs, including both my snapshots and my photography works. I kept my photography gallery coz it is relatively small, so it hasn’t hit the Gallery scalability bottleneck, and by hosting it myself I get web statistics like who link to my images or where my visitors come from.

I am considering doing more photography professionally, the first steps will be to overhaul my photography website. Instead of just having a gallery/portfolio, the new site is going to have a more “professional” look with portfolio, client list, contact info, an “about” page, and possibly my rates. I’m not sure if I should make up a business name or just continue to use Andrew Ng Images or AYN Images. For the portfolio, I am thinking about using my images off Flickr. I can come up with custom tags for each categories, this way I only have to upload to Flickr with the specific tag(s) and my photography website will show the new images automatically. I can already embed slideshows into webpage, but I will see what other tools are out there. I searched briefly and found a couple tools to generate Flash sites with Flickr images. There is also an API to Flickr, and I’ve coded with PHPFlickr a little bit when I had to migrate all 4000+ images from Gallery to Flickr, so I could do something custom with their API as well.

Anyway, I need to get this site up and running asap, and I’m gonna try some new ways to get some new clients, yes, this includes possibly posting on Craigslist. (or is that not a good idea?)

Feel free to chime in if you have any cool ideas on what I should include or how I should do the new site.

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dior homme 19cm first wash

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I decided the diors needed a wash after almost 7 months of wear, went with the hand wash cycle of my washer, cold, Woolite dark. After wash I used the spin cycle to get most of the water out, and line dried in my patio… Didn’t lose much indigo, they shrink a bit at the waist and crotch, turned out well, I think… Some pics:

drying the diors (by AndrewNg.com)

19cm post-wash (by AndrewNg.com)

19cm post-wash (by AndrewNg.com)
I will continue to rock these probably like half of the times, I’ve rotated in the Jomons since the 6-month mark, I think those will be my next “project”.

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