Archive for the ‘Life in General’ Category

An Unofficial Look into Steve Jobs’ Life and Career

The All About Steve Jobs website is an unofficial yet comprehensive source of information about Steve’s lifestyle, career, key people in his life, genius on stage, and genius at work. The neatly-curated and well-presented information on this website includes interviews with colleagues, family, employees, and the man himself. Here you can have a glimpse at [...]

Steve Jobs Has Passed Away

A visionary, as many say. May sound clichè, but he (and the team he led) have truly revolutionized the world of technology. Under Steve’s command Apple brought UNIX-based laptop and desktop machines to a wider audience with the Mac with a longer life cycle than any more popular Windows-based systems then. Steve made  listening to [...]

Museum of Me – a Visualization of Your (online) Social Life

Intel’s Museum of Me is a must-see exhibition of a famous online personality: you. It pull videos, photos, “likes”, friends, and other information about you on Facebook (with tour permission) and organizes a (fake, you didn’t think they’d really open a museum with photos of you, right?) exhibit featuring your data. Pretty interesting visualization… Will [...]

Sharing a Goal

My wife is approaching 30 (tomorrow). I’m almost there too. I wonder about accomplishments. Things a 30-year-old should achieve, should have achieved by this age. I can think of many examples of famous “accomplishers” who did great things by this age. Einstein, anyone? I feel the quarter-life (well, a bit over 1/4) crisis hitting me. [...]

The Web as a Channel for Bad Attitude

Bad attitude is an euphemism compared to the hatred we’ve seen trending on the Web. Has anyone conducted a comprehensive study on this yet? To mention a couple of examples below, I’ll use news/comments from two tech blogs I follow on Facebook. Mashable posted this article calling people to help the victims of the recent [...]

Funny Amazon Product Reviews – Learn From Them

It is true, with the World Wide Web invading everyone’s homes and pockets with handheld devices everyone has a chance to be a comedian these days. Posts like this listing funny Amazon product reviews are popular these days. This post from Geekosystem collects even more creative reviews; 50 of them, to be more exact! There’s [...]