[youtube &hl=en_US&fs=1&] Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: Inside a school for suicide bombers http://www.ted.com/talks/sharmeen_obaid_chinoy_inside_a_school_for_suicide_bombers.html Wonder why anyone would choose to become a suicide bomber? Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy will tell you step by step how that works.

I have been reading some articles on UML and how nice it is to draw the initial picture of the whole system design. There are claims that say there are some tools out there that automate code generation to create empty classes and methods based on the UML diagram. What a novel idea! So I went and hurt for “those tools”. To my disappointment, I found many “old websites” and dead links… a domain was on sale as well… This doesn’t look exciting… ...

These guys are inspiring! “If you don’t believe you can actually walk on water, it’s not gonna happen for you.” [youtube &hl=en_US&fs=1&] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ry2aG9QES0

Just watched a very interesting PBS video called College Inc. Basically many colleges are struggling financially and investors are coming in to help make them profitable. However, being a for-profit college somewhat turns you into a commercial institution that has the obligations to make profits. Imagine if you were the financially struggling school official making a choice between raising school fund somehow or turning to investors (quick cash but with strings attached), how would you make that decision? Was it a simple financial decision? Or was it a little more than that? ...

Winner: “Best Animated Short - 2009 Animarte Film Festival” [youtube &hl=en_US&fs=1&] Official Site : http://www.getout-lefilm.com/ Youtube link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYJnQPoL2iw

I live near the Caltrain station in Mountain View, and will have an international flight to catch on a Friday at 1:30pm. Being a bit adventurous, I started looking into ways to get to SFO without driving. Um… why not start with Caltrain? Here is the Caltrain schedule… get yourself comfortable with the huge table. A ruler might help. http://www.caltrain.com/timetable.html Apparently Caltrain won’t take me to SFO, but it could take me to Millbrae or San Bruno. Close enough. Notice that San Bruno is in one zone further, it will cost $6 instead of $4.25 ( Fares and Zones as of May 6, 2010). But that’s not the main concern for now. ...

This happened to me while debugging an iphone app with CoreLocation. I got crashes consistently. Then I started paying more attention to the console output, here is the error message: ERROR,Time,290362745.002,Function,“void CLClientHandleDaemonDataRegistration(__CLClient*, const CLDaemonCommToClientRegistration*, const __CFDictionary*)",server did not accept client registration 1 WARNING,Time,290362745.005,Function,“void CLClientHandleDaemonInvalidation(__CFMessagePort*, void*)",client 1035.0 has been disconnected from daemon That doesn’t make much sense… ^^; Then I realized I kept saying no to the pop up question “Would Like to Use Your Current Location”. I tried saying “OK”, then everything worked. No more errors. ...

[youtube &hl=en_US&fs=1&] Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4 Quite amazing… if you are interested in business or leadership, this video is a must-see! The book he mentioned is called The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (ISBN 0-316-31696-2) by Malcolm Gladwell. That’s also a must-read book. ...

以下是朋友轉寄的信件 // ———————————————– “一個女人有一晚沒回家，隔天她跟老公說她睡在一個女性朋友那邊。 她老公打電話給她最好的十個朋友，沒有一個知道這件事！” “一個男人有一晚沒回家睡，隔天他跟老婆說他睡在一個兄弟那邊， 她老婆打電話給他最好的十個朋友，有八個好兄弟確定她老公睡在他們家…… 還有兩個說她老公還在他那兒！” 某網友的回帖：昨晚把此帖給我老婆看，沒想到她興致大發， 立刻打電話給我朋友問我是否在他們那裏。結果可想而知，再次論證了上述觀點！ 更離譜的是有一兄弟竟然說我在他家喝醉了，正睡著呢，還問我老婆要不要喊我起來接電話？ 在挂了電話後，那兄弟的電話馬上打到我手機上，一接通沒等我說話就大喊： “在哪呢，快回家吧，你老婆找你呢，我說你在我家喝醉了……回去前別忘了先喝酒……” 通完話，我看著老婆默默無語……

You know what this phrase means? I was confused for a little while until I realized 反托拉斯法 means antitrust laws. hahahah… Here is the wikipedia definition.