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January 26, 2012 0

What are some great ways to promote a new free SDK or API?

By in Thoughts

What are some great ways to promote a new free SDK or API? Write an answer on Quora What are some great ways to promote a new free SDK or API?

January 23, 2012 0

Sharing internet and wifi with Windows 7 (Problems and fixes for Connectify and other methods)

By in Technology, Thoughts, Tips

(this entry was done haphazardly with no screenshots because I don’t have my own Windows 7 machine to double check.  i wanted to at least post something now so i didn’t forget the steps.  I’ll clean up and add screenshots later.  1/22/12) While on a trip to India in January where only one person had [...]

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January 22, 2012 0

Epic Taj Photo

By in Thoughts

Just got back from a trip to India. Taj Mahal is a must see and incredible impressive in person. Check this photo my buddy and I took in front. This was a first take photo courtesy of our friend Rika with an Instagram filter. Epic!

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December 15, 2011 0

HOW TO make the Best, Most Convenient, Poached Egg evarrr!: method, explanation

By in Food, Tips

Every time I learn something new about egg preparation, I write a post on it thinking I have finally found the most convenient and tastiest way to prepare an egg with a runny yolk.  My goals are quickness of preparation, ease of cleanup (minimizing dish/apparatus washing), and quality/consistency of egg (runny yolk, not over cooked). [...]

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December 15, 2011 0

How To Make Page Numbers in Powerpoint permanent, inaccessible, uneditable, background etc.!

By in Technology, Tips

I recently spent a lot of time trying to create a template in Powerpoint where a few elements were in the background of the slide master and thus uneditable (untouchable, permanent).  Inserting an omnipresent logo and positioning a new text box was easy – dropping them in the master slide made them appear on every [...]

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November 23, 2011 2

Japanese Onsen Tamago (Japanese Softboiled Eggs!!!)

By in Food, Tips

After having an egg brunch with a friend where we tested out a less than stellar egg poaching device, I remembered I should post my youtube video about Japanese softboiled eggs.  Back in 2007 while living in Tokyo I came across a crazy Japanese softboiled egg that cracked open like a raw egg but slid [...]

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November 10, 2011 1

Problem Fix: iPhoto still shows already imported photos from iPhone: Explantation & Solution!

By in iPhone, Technology, Tips

One of the many joys of having an iPhone is always having a pretty decent digital camera on me at all times (aside from low light situations…i can’t wait for the iphone that has good night time photo taking abilities!).  Since I got my first iPhone in 2008, I have been snapping away and documenting [...]

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November 9, 2011 3

A php script to reformat email addresses to remove quotes and carrots

By in Coding, Technology, Tips

“Your Name” <yourname@domain.com>         I am in the middle of writing a script that takes in emails and saves its content to a database.  The location in the database depends on who the sender is which I determine from their email address.  The problem is sometimes the email address in a header more often than [...]

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October 21, 2011 1

The Fall of Facebook (and other giants): Disruption in Digital Media

By in Business School, Discourse, Technology, Thoughts

(also featured at the Online Economy Class Blog here)   Clayton Christensen, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, describes in his oft discussed theory on disruptive innovation a cycle within businesses that causes incumbents within an industry to continually pursue the creation of higher performance products.  The idea [...]

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October 12, 2011 0

Blueprint CSS and Dreamweaver Problem (AND FIX!)

By in Technology, Tips, UX

              I know that hardcore programmers find it embarrassing to use a WYSIWYG web editor when coding sites but seeing as I am not a hardcore programmer, I don’t mind.  It’s nice to be messing around with HTML and CSS and see the results of your work immediately. I recently [...]

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