Samurai Coder

• How to improve your email etiquette
• Geek to Live: Train others how to use email

I’m developing an idea of “A Good Company”. The draft is gisted. I know this is not realistic, but it’s worth thinking about. Please send me your comments.

How to Type Faster on Your iPhone from Howcast.com.

I’m considering moving from this Drupal installation to something else. Maintaining a website is quite a pain in the neck. My email addresses are hosted with the same company (i.e., I’m not using Google apps.) There are many tasks for maintenance.

• Keep Drupal core up-to-date.
• Keep Drupal modules up-to-date.
• Keep PHP and MySQL versions up-to-date.

To be precise, I don’t have to install a newest version. But some security updates need to be done as soon as possible. I started a website a while ago when I didn’t have knowledge of PHP.

I don’t do anything fancy here. I simply write posts. Some of which have images and an embedded video. That’s it.

I need a simple hosted blog software, where I can write in Markdown. I also need a MarsEdit support. In addition, a good exporting is a must.

I haven’t dropped the idea of hosting my blog on samuraicoder.net completely. I’m trying to figure out what works best for me to keep writing.

A girl on 2channel. She explains what happend to her after one of her vidoes attracted 2channel users. She speaks Engilsh starting around 6 minutes from the beginning.

ITmedia News covered the story.

This is what happens in Japan. A scary country, eh?

The interview at CBC with John Cusack. AP has a short interview with Hilary Duff.

Pogue's Battery Rant. He didn’t talk about the OS. Power consumption of Windows and Ubuntu should be different.

Hilary Duff is not too skinny now.

I quit Twitter yesterday. So far I haven’t had a problem. Rather I recognize that I have had many problems with Twitter. I don’t compare and contrast Twitter with 2channel, but it’s really a mixture or chaos.

I was bad. I didn’t know why I spent so much time on joking. Some jokes might very well have been taken as offensive or hurt. Different people take the tweets differently. Hurtful messages targeting at celebrities are one example. As my tweets are now gone, I don’t have a log of what I exactly tweeted. But today we see a lot of people tweeting like me. What happened Today? Michael Jackson passed away. I have been reading tweets with hashtag #michaeljackson. I found “myself” there. People are just like myself. Joking about his surger and his children and whatnot. I would have been one of them if I tweeted today. (I saw countless positive comments about Michael Jackson as well, though.)

Clearly I was walking in the wrong direction. That’s not because of Twitter, but because of myself. My usage of Twitter was wrongful. Looking back, I was trying to extremely funny, where my funniness was indeed more than sarcastic. Deep in my mind, I might be just trying to draw attention so that my followers could retweet my tweet. I’m fine with myself who is making bad jokes occasionaly, but I went to extreme.

There has been no side effect of quitting Twitter so far. Learning to know passing of Michael Jackson on nyt.com, following Iran news on BBC, who is following Twitter. Twitter isn’t just for me right now, but I met cool people on Twitter. I also learned many positive and negative things around Twitter, those who use it as a mean of business, marketers who try to look bigger than they having thousands of followers, self-professed technology experts who don’t have any expert knowledge of technology, people trying to include me in “their” network, those trying to “change the world” and protester in Iraq. The best part is meeting other people offline. They knew those bad things and people, and told me that they are “just being nice for a while”.

I don’t have to be one of the first people to know the latest news. I will come to know after all the news are tweeted. That’s fine. I will try to be true self.

Last but not least, rest in peace, Michael Jackson. Just like any who passed away, including Neda, I mourn the loss of the lives of them.