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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.

如果馬利奧救著個港女公主 [youtube &hl=en_US&fs=1&]

Just saw some videos and read some articles about this cool app called Knocking. Basically, it’s a video live sharing app, somewhat like a webcam but on your iphone or android. Awesome, right? It’s a free app, so check it out! Let me know if you get this app as well so we can try it out together. I have a feeling this kind of live video sharing apps will become mainstream soon. ...

I wasn’t really expecting much at the beginning of this movie. After all, I am more used to the japanese animes kind of drawing. Ten minutes into the movie, I almost wanted to turn it off, but was too lazy to do so in my chair. After a while I found myself fascinated by the artistic drawing of it. Lucky me this movie turned out to be quite good. Kinda reminds me of Caroline. Ooops… I meant, Coraline. ;) ...

I have seen this word a lot here and there, never really had the time to look into what it really meant. Today I found its definition at wikipedia and iciba. 潛規則是指沒有正式規定，而在某些人群中被行為各方普遍遵守的規則。但在中國歷史上，往往是潛規則而非種種明文規定，在支配着現實生活的運行。 潛規則在不同時間、不同領域往往有不同稱呼，如在明清官場被稱為「官場陋規」，在現在一些行業被稱為「行規」、「規矩」，在某些場合又被稱為「不成文規定」。 潛規則通常有不法、不道德、或者其他不能明說的內容，但也有一些規則是因為沒有道理而且瑣碎而成為潛規則。前一種情況比如給官員送紅包，或者在一些國家少數民族、女性職員不容易被提升到重要崗位；後一種情況比如在歐美不要穿着一個演唱團體的T恤衫去看該團體的演出。但通常前一種情況的用法更多。 1. implicit rule, unwritten rule , unpublished rules 2. casting couch, hidden rules Basically, it means unwritten rules. Rules that facilitate the operations of the underlying system, yet unwritten due to the high possibility of being questioned and low chance of justifying it. ...

From http://www.ted.com/talks/james_randi.html: Legendary skeptic James Randi takes a fatal dose of homeopathic sleeping pills onstage, kicking off a searing 18-minute indictment of irrational beliefs. He throws out a challenge to the world’s psychics: Prove what you do is real, and I’ll give you a million dollars. (No takers yet.) Here is a man who is passionate about finding out what is real and what is not. http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf