I just created a code sharing and exchange web site. Currently, it just has some articles about Ruby performance tuning. I will put more articles there for different languages and system issues in the future.
http://hack.emilykwan.com/
According to “The Paradigm Shift” a lot of people will mine this data.
Here is the link to get the AOL search data.
http://www.gregsadetsky.com/aol-data/
and this is the Bit Torrent link:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/388815
Here is the searchable database for the data.
We are taking the kids to skating. We found 2 places near our home. Both of them have Saturday morning kids session.
The first one is San Jose Skate. http://www.sanjoseskate.com/
397 Blossom Hill Rd., San Jose, CA 95123. 7$ per skater and 1$ for parent to get in. Last time only had about 10 people in the Saturday morning session.
We also went to Cal Skate in Milpitas. 5.75$ per kid and parent is free to get in. Have about 50 kids there every Saturday. Cal Skate Of Milpitas, 980 Los Coches St, Milpitas, CA 95035
Without a doubt, Cal Skate of Milpitas is more fun than San Jose Skate. At least it is cheaper.
From http://blog.labnotes.org/2006/08/04/seven-things-you-need-to-know-about-your-next-big-startup-idea/
VC funding is not a liquidation event. When you’re playing in an emerging market, the most you can do is speculate. VC rounds are hard numbers, but they’re not market intelligence, unless you’re price shopping for interest rate. Borrowing money is not the definition of success, it’s a sign that you’re not making a profit.
Search is not broken. Search works great for most people most of the time. There’s a few places where search can improve, and you can round up the corners. But if you understand that it’s not broken, just has some untapped niche markets, you’ll be able to cost it better.
There’s no bottomless pit of attention. We have not found a cure for sleep, and people still don’t have more spare time to divert more attention to more services. Attention is hard to find. And what TechCrunch gives this week, TechCrunch takes away next week when someone outdoes you with better gradients.
All problems are interesting to solve. Some problems are also profitable to solve. It depends on how cheaply you can do it in the face of mounting competition. Yes, you can make a boatload of money dominating in the software industry, but even Microsoft’s ticket for success was bought for cheap. The Web is not different.
Objects in the mirror look closer than they are. Craigslist, Evite and Yahoo Groups didn’t just happen, they took years to build up the audience. And it will take you years to build up your audience, and a smaller one if you’re trying to win users away.
People are intelligently lazy. In VC pitches people have a tagging problem they can intelligently solve by being lazy and using your service. In real life, people have real problems and they’re intelligently lazy enough to ignore your service.
All the good ideas are taken. Launching on TechCrunch a week ahead of your competitors is not being first to market. It’s being late to market by five years.
And what about the fallacy of ads? I don’t believe in that. Ads are a source of revenue and you can make profit. Provided that limited attention spread over years is enough to make your non-interesting solution profitable after you pay back the debt. It’s the other variables of the equation you need to pay attention to.
And last but not least, if you’re doing anything in the architecture of participation economy by leveraging user generated content to maximize the wisdom of crowd, maybe you should listen to the wisdom of crowd first. Read some blogs even if you don’t like what people have to say.
We are thinking of buying a Plasma TV to replace the old TV. Our living room is small. So, we will probably buy a 42″ TV instead of 50″. Another decision to make is whether we want to buy it now or wait until later.
After we read all the review, I think the Panasonic TH-42PX60U 42″ is the one we are going to buy. Reviews after reviews, everybody say that it is the best.
Circuit city had a good deal before for ~2000$. But Amazon is free ship and no tax for California. Hence it ends up cheaper. I think we should buy it now….
I have a very high utility bill and I believe the problem is in my washer and dryer. Since we need to use the washer/dryer everyday and our dryer is running an hour per day. It will be good if we can cut it down and save some money.
After some searches, here is what I find — “Amazing Dryer Balls”
Then I wonder whether it will work. More searching… Here is the reviewer (http://www.komotv.com/does_it_work/story.asp?ID=39937) says:
Tish’s verdict in the simplest terms? “Thumbs up”, she said. “Thumbs up.”
Another review (http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4406388&nav=menu117_3_5 ) and they say:
“Does It Work?” We give the Dryer Balls a “yes.”
As for the energy savings, let’s take an average family. If you dry six, 30 minute loads of laundry a week, that costs you about 100 dollars a year, just for the dryer. Cut that drying time by 10 percent, or down to 27 minutes, and you’re saving 10 dollars a year, plus about 25 dollars a year in dryer sheets. For the year, that totals a 35 dollar savings per year. The balls last two years, so the highest value we can put on them is about 70 dollars over two years for an average family.
Another review (http://cbs13.com/buyandtry/local_story_202233307.html):
“You’d probably save in the long run, it works about the same.”
So our testers give the dryer ball a green light. Only problem now, keeping the kids from playing with.
So I rushed out and brought this from Walgreen yesterday for 9.99$. In fact, you can get it a lot cheaper from Amazon.com.
I think you will like it too.
Good kids’ story.
One day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found there an egg all yellow and glittering. When he took it up it was
as heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away, because he thought a trick had been played upon him. But he took it home on second thoughts, and soon found to his delight that it was an egg of pure gold. Every morning the same thing occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his eggs. As he grew rich he grew greedy; and thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing.
Greed oft o’er reaches itself.
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