pictures
ever since i discovered pixoh, i find myself using it regularly to enhance my images. this is a cool tool from an innovative company.
lockedown, blast door
* Aegrescit medendo – The disease worsens with the treatment. The remedy is worse than the disease
* Sursum corda – Lift up your hearts (to God)
* Credo nos in fluctu eodem esse – I think we’re on the same wavelength
* Malum consilium quod mutari non potest – It’s a bad plan that can’t be changed.
* Cogito ergo doleo – I think therefore I am depressed
* Ut sit magna, tamen certe lenta ira deorum est – The wrath of the gods may be great, but it certainly is slow
* Hic sunt dracones – Here be dragons
my interview & job offer from google
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12/20/2006 Update: You might be interested in this ajaxy, draggable timeline of acquisitions completed by Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Enjoy!
wall street journal & disambiguation
i am a regular reader of The Wall Street Journal. the online version is cool and it’s much easier to read and search than the print version. but, i think the The Wall Street Journal
can add more value to the reader if it hooked-up with findory to personalize the layout and content. findory is very cool.automated personalization used to be the holy grail of search. personalization is an automated way for a system to serve-up or render relevant data or information based on historical, implicit, previous decisions or gestures made by the user. it’s based on a neural-net approach; more specifically, it’s based on unsupervised learning methods.
new house
after several months of living in corporate housing, we finally moved into our new house. we all love it and we feel very blessed. the home-buying process for this one was not pain-free: this is a great, brand new home, that is seriously undervalued –
canker sores
i had issues with this for a few weeks. in fact, it got so bad that i couldn’t eat and, as a consequence, i lost some weight. i used to think that acidic foods were the sole cause of these irritating and painful epidermal terrorist but, according to webmd, it’s not the only cause. perhaps someone, someday, will find a cure and help me out.
around the block
while dry and probably uninteresting to most, i’m interested in the life of business, operations, lost the tv show, entrepreneurship, family, mixed martial arts, the wall street journal, technology, and the dirt and sweat of life. i’ll chronicle bits of pretty much everything here — from my viewpoint.
