Category: General
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Taking Opportunities
I touched on this before, but Marc Andreesen’s essay about careers and creating and accepting opportunities rather than having a definite plan really resonated in me. I believe a huge part of what people would like to refer to as “career planning” is being continuously alert to opportunities that present themselves to you spontaneously, when…
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Facebook Auto-Tagging Photos
This popped up on a picture I posted… Completely unrelated, but I wonder how they are doing it. I doubt it’s any kind of recognition. My bet is it saw that I was attending these two events (or supposed to) at around the same time, and thought I might have taken it there. May be…
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Tilt Shifted Photography Experiment
I was reading the latest issue of Wired the other day in the gym, and flipped to an article about tilt-shift photography. Tilt-shift photography is a technique of taking a picture so that it looks as if the shot is of a scale model. This used to be done with expensive camera equipment, but recently…
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Metro Times – Check DC Station Times via TXT Message
I first wrote about this here and here. But now, it’s done.Metro Times – Get DC Metro Train Times on Any Cell Phone – FREE Fellow residents of the DC area! No more rushing to the nearest metro station, only to find the next train is 15 minutes away! Now, all you have to do…
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New Personal Goal
I only show up on page 3 when you do a Google search for Zvi. Be on page 1 (possibly in top 5) by the end of the year. Hrmm…. how does SEO work again? 🙂
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One Step Close to Holograms
I act like a giddy third-grader whenever I see something that people deem “futuristic” and “impossible”. When I saw this video, my jaw dropped. Unfortunately, they start out the video by showing you how it works, rather than showing the dazzling results first. [via Engadget]
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Why am I drinking TAB?
Why, of all the energy drinks (aside from the usual green tea that I drink), did I pick up TAB? Why am I downing them? Who knows..