Thursday, 17 August 2006

Steve Job's speech at Stanford

I happened to receive this e-mail from a friend I made here in the US. He's a Stanford graduate student and he sent me this speech. I'm not allowed to forward this to anyone, though, so I'll take a few quotes out of it.

'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

"If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. "

"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much."



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Tuesday, 15 August 2006

Loose Change

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7218920724339766288&q=Loose+Change

It's a video introducing a conspiracy theory that I have long thought of.

Tahoe

This is the tundra patches on the ski slopes. (left-up)
This are my cousins and relatives (right-up)
More tundra patches.




Thursday, 10 August 2006

Camp Photos
















This is Eugene at camp. On the right is me trying to tackle a bulging piece of the wall.

Wednesday, 9 August 2006

surprise!

Does anyone here know why the IT company Adobe (the one that made Acrobat Reader for pdf documents) is called Adobe???

It's because one of the founders live by a creek called Adobe Creek in Los Altos!
And by the way, he lives right across the street from where I am.

Maybe I should say hello to him next time he drives to work...

Saturday, 22 July 2006

I'm in the US!

Mission accomplished!!

commputer built! I just built a PC with my uncle. It uses AMD K8 processor 3500+. It's just so fast. We bought a Seagate 300GB hard drive for it. I'm going to get a hard drive home to upgrade my Compaq computer.

On Sunday, (Monday in HK) I'm going to camp. Might call you soon.