Author: LloydLeung

I’ve used Firefox for a long time… since version 0.6 if I remember right. The main feature of firefox is it’s flexibility and expandability of extensions. I’ve now realized, that the majority of the applications I used, are web based. Google Calendar and Gmail has replaced MS Outlook. Google Docs has eliminated my need to…

NOTE: I’m not claiming this is true for all career fields. These are only my thoughts on that matter… I am not an expert nor do I claim to be one in the matters of this post. At work, I’ve been scanning through resumes that come across my desk to help fill positions. There are…

find . -name “.svn” -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1024 -r rm -rf -n prevents rm too many arguments error -r prevents execution if none found (and prevents error!) originally from: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/902/delete-all-.svn-directories-from-current-path-recursive

I’m playing with chromium… not chrome, but chromium! http://code.google.com/chromium/ Chroimium 2.0.163.0 build 9836 Is it fast, hell yeah!

I’ve had these two 23″ widescreen dells (sku 320-7339) now for a little while now. I’ve noticed that I used to read sites in full mode.  Now I’m reading sites with half the width.  My eyes get tired from reading such a long line. I remember learning that newspapers, magazines, and such, realize that there…

I find myself in a midst of buying for the sake of buying. Do you remember buying something because you needed it? What ever happened to make due with what you have? There’s a fine line, of being a consumer hound, being consumer savvy or even frugal. I found myself in a local computer store,…

Adrian made a comment about public speaking… i’m not sure how i would react if i was speaking in front of people I’ve never met, as opposed to the telephone conference call I had with these same people I’ve never met. When I was up in montreal, I think I had a good meeting with…

Work has given us some what 10% days… like Google’s 20% days, but more work focused endeavours. So, today, I spent most of my time, trying to show off the virtues of Symfony Framework for certain parts of a work product, over using Zend. My analogy is this, you have to paint a big wall,…