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Visit to Wilson Daily Prep

July 15, 2010

Last week Renee, and I took a short day trip to Chappaqua, New York to visit Laura at her new (to me anyways) office of Wilson Daily Prep). I visited her first office when we first started working on WilsonDailyPrep a few years back. How quickly time passes.
Chappaqua is about thirty minutes from NYC and [...]

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Amazon Kindle is still King

June 21, 2010

I am as much of an Apple Fan as the next person. I stood inline for six hours for my last iphone. But I don’t have an iPad. And I have the original Amazon Kindle.
Every time I pick up my Kindle and start reading, all doubts fade away. The device is easy to hold. The [...]

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My Accidental Connection with Senator Ted Kennedy

August 28, 2009

Being Chinese in Boston, I always hear positive stories about the late Senator Ted Kennedy helping immigrants. In addition, I agree with most of his political views, he seemed like a good Senator. After learning of his death, I felt we had lost a great man. I added one of his biographies to my Amazon [...]

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Can We Separate our Online Personal and Professional Lives?

August 12, 2009

Went to PodCampBoston4 this weekend. Everyone is working on the “next big thing” -what is “social media”? What does it mean? How is it affecting all of us? How far should it go? This weekend helped me answer a question – when social media enters the arena, should we keep our personal and professional lives [...]

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An iPhone duh moment

June 10, 2009

I was getting a bit bored with my almost one year old iPhone wallpaper photo that I took. So I went to Aperture, found another good picture, crop it portrait sized, since the iPhone screen is normally used in portrait mode, and synced it to the phone. This morning I look down on the locked [...]

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SpyMaster as a time management tool?

June 3, 2009

After playing SpyMaster for a day, it clicked — Since the game cycle is in multiple of 5 minutes, it can be integrated into a time boxing ‘(10+2)*5′ procrastination hack. The best explanation for this procrastination hack is at 43 Folders. Basically focus on one single task for 10 minutes, then allow yourself to be [...]

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business from PlaySpyMaster #1

June 3, 2009

Encourage user to put spymaster messages into their tweeter stream in exchange for more game points — More PR for spymaster.

Technorati Tags: business, social media

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Scanning Circa Notebooks

May 30, 2009

I have been keeping a paper based work journal all my professional life. I have a bookshelf of them. While I live pretty much on the web, I find there is nothing (yet) that can replace jotting down notes, pen on paper.
I switched systems many times. Most recently, I had an inspiration — Combine Levenger [...]

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The ugly side of Web Site Building

April 17, 2009

Our process for developing a website is to help the client express their brand and customer base, to help our designers come up with a consistent and effective design. Often, as a project picks up attention, the client committee size grows, or new people take charge, and they started “contributing” to the visual design over [...]

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My New Bicycle

April 14, 2009

I did it. I bought a rebuilt single speed bike from Bikes Not Bombs last week, and I am on my third day of commuting by bicycle. Yes, my new office is only 0.6 mile away from home. But I actually use the bike to head to meetings in other parts of town, to the [...]

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