Blog from the Loft

So the web is buzzing with the “product transition” comments during the financial result calls. Cheaper iPod? Cheaper MacBook? What if it is nothing to do with hardware, but their new unlimited subscription based iTune music, or better still, video service?

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After many years, I have decided to start doing DIY electronics again. Things have changed a great deal. Let me share my research here to save you some time if you are thinking about starting electronics DIY. What tools do you need, and what are some of the fun things you can do. But first, [...]

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I started using Leopard, and I swore my keyboard froze once in a while. I thought it was iTerm or something. Until this morning Apple software upgrade told me that there is an upgrade, and it solves the problem. So I was not seeing things. It was a bug! Read and download the update here [...]

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Part of the reason I was waiting to switch from using Windows XP (gasp) as my Django development platform to OS X is that it is actually easier to install the platform on XP. Windows does not come with any of the tools, so it was a matter of installing the version that I need. [...]

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I recently signed up for a health club membership at one of my alumni university. The club and facilities? Seems first rate for the money. Their online registration service? Great example of bad web application design. Really bad:
It offers online membership signup, and class registration. Sounds great. But look at this common usage scenario:
Registration [...]

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If you good for “django” and “ajax”, you will quickly come across the “Django adopts Dojo as Ajax framework” article at Ajaxian. The important thing to note is that is it not (yet) true. Django 0.96, the current release, does not contain dojo. The dojo toolkit if definitely one of the better ones out [...]

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According to an article in the German newpaper Spiegel, a business weekly magazine Dagens Industri pool says 80 percent of Swedes said they had “much or very much trust” in the world’s largest furniture store IKEA than the church.

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Ok. May not be the “best” pasta, but this “fancy shape” pasta is great for eating with sauces because of its shape. It picks up the sauce easily and plentifully. What is it? From Colavita, it’s called “Radiators 69″. These are so special that I can only find them in certain stores, and not even [...]

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In Genuine Curiosity’s Incompetence is wonderful post, he discuss the four stages of learning model. A person goes from unconsciously incompetent to consciously incompetent to consciously competent and finally to unconsciously competent. This mirrors one of my analysis on hiring people. I learn this from somewhere but I forgot where:
You can draw up a [...]

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