Archive for February, 2002


The American Minute

A bilingual German co-worker said American have a funny way to measure time. “One second” according to an American would be about 2 minutes. “A minute” would be half an hour. “As soon as possible” probably means “sometimes this year”.

Gerhard Richter

I always liked Richter after seeing Lesende several years ago. Just read an article on him on the NYTimes magazine, probably because MoMA is having a show on
him right now. Only now I realized that Andreas Gursky and Richter like each other’s work. Which explain why I like Gursky as well. Many of his photographs […]

Last item I looked at — EBay user interface

This is nice. After signing into ebay, one of the option is to go to the last item I looked it. More and more sites are very smart about not loosing your sessions after you have been browsing as a guest and then switch into logged in mode.

Euro Smart Car

Euro Smart Car

Adding to my Smart Car collection — a Euro (the currency) smart car —

Joining the evil empire

Joining the evil empire
Yup. I bought an XBox. After visiting Chris in NY and playing Halo, I just have to get one.
Full review will follows…

Date/Time Palindrome

right now it is, give or take a few minutes:
02/02/02 20:02