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February 17, 2010

On The Value of Personal Information

Also worth considering: We charge $99 per year for a MobileMe subscription. Google gives you the same stuff and all they ask for is, um, permission to totally invade your privacy and to “monetize” (God I hate that word) your personal information. You think your personal information is worth less than $99 a year? Then you’re getting a hell of a deal with Google. The rest of us would rather spent $99 and keep the contents of our email to ourselves.
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All my credit card statements, software licenses information, electronic receipt, password reminder, everything, goes into Gmail.

Maybe it's a good idea to ditch gmail altogether, for a system with better privacy. But not MobileMe, I've read some bad experiences with that. And of course not the rumored facebook mail. Maybe I could roll my own email server somewhere?

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February 2, 2010

Internet Restriction in Singapore

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August 26, 2009

Reading Trends

What I've read according to Google Reader trends. Yes, I still read RSS feeds. Sometimes I find statistic like this amusing.

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August 18, 2009

The Time Machine

Browser has become one of the most important piece of software in human life. Take one example, me. I use web based application to track a project. One day, I can't access the website. I was literally pulling my hair trying to figure out what's wrong. The ISP? The web? The whole internet broken?

After a dozen of refreshes and restarts, I am somehow able to access the site now. After I log in, I see something wrong. The CSS and JavaScript files were not loaded. The site is a AJAX-heavy site (which is cool), but has no alternative when the browser can't load JavaScript. See, the J in AJAX is JavaScript, and it's not AJAX if you can't do the J. In conclusion, I can't see or update my task list, I can't do anything for two days.

I tried re-installing Safari, tried with Firefox (two different versions of it), nothing worked. 3 am in the morning, in desperation I pull one last trick. Time machine. I restore Safari and some of its configuration files from a few days back (before the latest update), and shutdown the computer (without trying opening that damn site again, too tired). Later that day I tried again, and to my surprise it worked. Life is good again. Now I can continue my life.

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