30May Cultural Intelligence
I read Cultural Intelligence by Thomas and Inkson over the weekend. It’s a great book which discusses misconceptions people can have while dealing with individuals from other cultural backgrounds.
22May Blackberry users
Got a blackberry addiction? This might be the product you’ve been waiting for:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2la_aGzpw8
21May Linux Trademark
There’s an interesting post over at Slashdot about the many different trademarks of “linux,” from the OS to laundry detergent.
21May Advocate of cellphone ban in Cali causes accident
The senator that is pushing for a ban on cellphone use while driving ironically rear-ended a lady while driving and talking on her cell phone. So much for practice what you preach, eh…
20May CPK
Not sure if you know of CPK, but what’s up with their pricing? They don’t list it on their menu and when you call in to make an order and ask how much it’d be (to bring the right amount of $) they say “Sorry I can’t tell you that, you will find out [...]
20May StarCraft 2
So they’ve finally announced it…
20May Road Trip
I drove up to Berkeley Saturday morning..left at 7am arrived at 2pm, picked up my brother and some of his stuff and left at 5pm got back to Irvine at 11:45pm…what a day!
17May Hoax E-mail Causes Drop in Apple Stock
Engadget reported a story based on an internal Apple e-mail that was forwarded to them. The e-mail stated the iPhone would be pushed back to October and Leopard would be pushed back to January. Within a matter of 6 minutes, Apple stock dropped from $107.89 to $103.42 wiping out over $4B of Apple’s [...]
15May Windows Mobile 6 on the T-Mobile Dash
Two weeks ago T-Mobile officially released a ROM update to upgrade their smartphones from WM5 to WM6. They had the exclusive and got it first from Microsoft.
I installed WM6 and started to configure it to my use. The new features and applications (such as Voice Command) are very cool. I had to [...]
06May TSA Employee Data Goes Missing
According to Threat Level, a Wired blog, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is missing a hard drive containing the social security numbers, birth dates, bank accounts, and payroll info of about 100,000 employees. A TSA press release states “It is unclear at this stage whether the device is still within headquarters or was stolen.”
Looks [...]