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Archive for November, 2005

bento anniversary show

over the weekend i went to check out bento’s anniversary show at the dna lounge.
they asked me to take some pictures. hope they like ‘em!

depeche mode concert

the depeche mode concert is tonight. i don’t know what the plan is exactly in terms of where we are going to go eat, but i have to arrive early to pick up will call tickets at the san jose arena. i REALLY hope that the tickets are decent. i really, really [...]

netflix queue manager

the netflix queue manager is the best modification i’ve ever seen to the netflix site. this is the way that the queue should have been implemented. drag and drop functionality to your netflix queue all in your browser.
i use the greasemonkey firefox extension version of this, but the bookmarklet version works just as [...]

company halloween party

i know it’s a little late, but the company had a halloween party. costumes were encouraged. people were also encouraged to bring in their carved pumpkins. only one person did and he won a $25 gift certificate, be default. dammit, i’m going to carve a pumpkin next year!
there was way too [...]

test phones

i don’t usually talk too much about work, but the other day i had to carry around the test bed of mobile devices that we have. i do development for a mobile device service company and so we have to have a lot of mobile devices… let me tell ya, this test bag [...]

how to not impress me

i am probably one of the biggest hypocrites when it comes to job interviews. when i interviewed for this position, i came in a short sleeve button down shirt and i *think* i wore slacks. but if i see someone else come in similarly attired, they better be damn good. i know, [...]

putty, pageant, puttygen

( techie )

i’ve only sort of casually wondered what pageant was, but never really did much investigation to find out what it was good for until last night. last night was the first time that i ever wanted to set up some kind of public key authentication and it was the first time that i have [...]

brief meet

the weekend seems to have flown by. i met up with cindy and some other friends on friday in the city. we were supposed to meet in the city at the house in north beach at 6:30 and i had even planned for us to get there a little early. instead, it [...]

fantasy NBA

i’m a little addicted right now. this is the first year that i’ve decided to participate in a fantasy league. fantasy basketball is rather addicting, but i think that i’m also not doing a very good job at managing this team. oh well, i guess we’ll see how it all works out, [...]

cubicle reconfiguration, part 2

so the dreaded cubicle reconfiguration has taken place and where once there was just my beautifully large, spacious cube, there is now two tiny, cramped cubes in its place. how sad is it to see that i can barely fit through the opening that they call a doorway? my mood has been down [...]