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Another Personal Update

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on April 29, 2007
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Yes, I realize there’s been a lack of actual content with the blog.

I apologize.

Instead, you keep getting my personal ramblings. Yikes.

I’m currently working on an entry on Facebook and how it’s changing social networking in the real world, as well as a post on why I started buying books again, especially technical books.

Yahoo! Homework is going swimmingly. I’m almost set, except for a little JavaScript magic which should take about an hour, as well as going for a couple more bonus points for compatibility with multiple browsers. That’ll be most of tomorrow spent at Grainger.

Which brings me to a few things I have to finish up as I leave Grainger. Subversion demo/presentation is tomorrow at 10, and so I am completing some documentation for that.

Need coffee. Not an all-nighter, but I just need a boost.

By the way, Dave Brubeck is amazing. Someone please point me to some other good Jazz musicians… this is a new genre of music I need to continue exploring.

Oh, and beer tasting. Something tells me I’ll be… slightly inebriated tomorrow.

Let’s see… more randomness…

Grainger’s full today. All the nerds are studying for their finals. Why wasn’t I like this back in the day…

Oh one last thing I’ve realized… I cannot get work done at my apartment here on campus. One thing, my apartment is not very inviting for work, because of the horrible desk height/chair combo (as well as the lighting). I’m going to have to revisit some ergonomic issues later, but… looks like it doesn’t really matter much anymore. I’m really amazed that I got any work done in the past 4 months there… wow.

A larger issue is that… I have a feeling I really do have to get out from where I sleep to get work done. Be it the kitchen table… or even a separate office room. This is all, of course, planning for the days of the start-up.

Look at the time, back to work!

The To-Do List

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Josh Kim
on April 24, 2007
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Either things are actually due on Monday, or I’m making them so.

  • Design “Homework” for Y!: I got started today… only a couple of hours here and there. Looks like there’s quite a bit to be done.
    • Note to self: Don’t get bogged down in the details. Optimize later…
    • Goal tonight: Finish the markup, at least.
  • CVS/SVN presentation: Both from the admin and the client point of view (including Mac and PC svn clients). I’ve implemented the server before, but I’m still not 100% satisfied as to what I can actually do.
    • Note to self: Don’t get bogged down in the details. Once again… stop being so darn detail-oriented
  • Slowdown bug for Moodle upgrades: Using Xdebug to profile Moodle, and to see where the bottleneck is…
    • Possible Solution: Cache the DB if the problem is indeed MySQL.
    • Goal tonight: Continue figuring out where the bottleneck is… debugging isn’t as nearly as fun as design…
  • Attend the Webmaster Forum on Thursday: Means… I have to go back to Urbana by Wednesday night.
  • Decide who to tell about my dreams and hopes…
    • Indeed… tricky situation…

Tired…

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Josh Kim
on April 21, 2007
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I feel like it’s all been a dream in the past three days. Visiting the Yahoo! campus… Just driving past Apple campus… Having a trip to San Jose completely paid for…

I’ve been told I look a little tanned. I’m uncertain how this could be, since I spent most of the day… in the tiniest room on the 2nd floor of building G, “.eu”. For some reason, all the conference rooms on that floor is named after TLDs (1st floor rooms looked like they were named after “I Love Lucy” characters).

Between you and me, dear reader, I don’t think most people who know me personally read this blog. My my, what a world they’re missing…

I hope to post the “post-interview with Yahoo!” tonight… but it might be tomorrow. Hence, this little stub of an entry will have to do for tonight.

Yahoo? Yahoo!

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on April 20, 2007
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Yes. I am indeed… excited, to say the least. The irony is that the name of the company I will be interviewing tomorrow for about… oh… five hours is what I feel like shouting at the top of my lungs, as I’m driving down 101 in my rental PT Cruiser.

And with that… and without reading my feeds… time to sleep.

Google v. Yahoo

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Josh Kim
on April 19, 2007
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Question of the Week: Buy Google or Yahoo?

I haven’t really thought about Yahoo as much as I’ve had in the past couple of days.

Google and Yahoo… to normal people, they might just seem like #1 and #2 in the world of online search (there’s a #3? who’s that? ahem). But really, I see that comparing the two companies as a whole is almost like comparing apples to oranges. The commonality that people misunderstand is “search”. But man, there’s so much more!

Both companies are trying to grow. Aggressively. Mind you, Google will be going after Microsoft Office’s market (PowerPoint, anyone?), no matter what Mr. Schmidt is saying at the Web 2.0 Expo (seriously, I only typed “2.0″ cuz it’s name of the conference).

“I don’t think we compete with them. We’re not as fully functional as MS Office — we’re more in line with how people use the web than how they use the desktop.”

I’m not sure how I’ll be using this presentation feature, seeing how I don’t normally create PowerPoints on a day to day basis… but I use Google all the time. The default search engine I use in Firefox is still Google (see how I didn’t say “I google all the time”? Dodged a bullet on that one). I use Gmail for all my email needs. I use Google Reader for my feeds. I also use Google docs, for budgeting and reporting hours for work. I even use Google chat from time to time.

But really, this is only because I haven’t had a reason to try something new. The funny thing is… Yahoo has already been a part of my world… for quite a while, now. While I haven’t really ever used Yahoo search (except to settle a little spat between two friends, Alex and Raj… pertaining to who is really “L Dopa Da Dopsta”..), Yahoo has Del.icio.us and Flickr… two companies very dear to my entrepreneurial heart.

Sadly… Yahoo took a beating on the markets today. Thank goodness I haven’t bought any of their stock. Yet…

What was the point of that? I don’t know. I just needed to relieve some Google/Yahoo steam.

I think this post borders on brain dump… Meh.