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Tainted Chinese Dairy Products

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:46:00 -0700

The tainted chinese dairy products scandal is getting serious. Two of my favorite snacks contain unacceptable levels of the chemical melamine: White Rabbit Creamy Candies and Koala's March from Lotte. In China, melamine-tainted milk has killed four babies and sickened nearly 53,000 (source: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/09/25/white-rock-candy.html).

Man.. I grew up with these snacks... maybe I should have a body checkup too.

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Macbook Pro Sweetness

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:18:29 -0700

Having fun installing Adobe CS3, TextMate, CSSEdit, RoR, MySQL, gems and other goodies now.

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Apartment rental ads are stupid

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:46:16 -0700

Why must people keep insisting to post rental ads without any pictures? It's like posting a personal ad like "I have 1 face, 2 eyes, 1 nose, and 1 mouth, marry me plz k thx"....

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Purolator is great

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:43:16 -0700

Just called Purolator to track my Macbook Pro. The operator picked up the phone in just 1 ring! But he sounded like he was working in a basement or something. I could hear echo and some fizzling sound from his microphone lol. Oh and my MBP will arrive tomorrow morning :P

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Finally, I have a blog...

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:51:00 -0700

DessertMonster finally have a blog! Nowadays almost everyone has a blog. It is hard to imagine that as a web designer with almost 8 years of experience, I have not started my own blog until today.

I think part of the reasons for not having a blog for so long is my fear. I fear that I will have nothing to write about. I fear that no one will visit my blog. I fear that I will fail. Then I was introduced to Twitter and Posterous after I joined the family of Spheric Technologies. I started to post little bits and pieces of my life - interesting web design tools or sites that I found, what I am doing, reading, or learning, or just how I feel at this very moment. Then I realized that it is not that difficult. After all, social media is all about sharing - our thoughts, experience, feeling, and ideas. If I have something to share, then what's the fear?

As Chris Brogan said in his post "Conquering Fear of Blogging", with millions and millions of blogs out there competing for eyeballs, it is a lot less climactic than you think.

There is still a lot of work to be done like creating theme and new categories. But I think this is really a good start. And I hope I can blog my way to a better designer and a better person in general.

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Google Rankings of my site

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:35:32 -0700

csslayout.com

"CSS Layout" - 16th
"Mephisto Integration" - 9th
"Mephisto Blog" - 7th and 8th
"Mephisto Blog Integration" - 1st and 2nd
"Vancouver CSS Layout" - 1st and 2nd
"Edmonton CSS Layout" - 1st and 2nd

Not too shabby eh?

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Synergy - share mouse & keyboard between multiple computers

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:13:25 -0700

I use Synergy between my PC and Powerbook. There's no lag at all - beats shelling out $50 or so for a switch that adds clutter to my already cluttered desk.

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

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