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Via Hacker News, Chad Austin: 10 Pitfalls of Dirty Code. Dirty code does not scale to larger teams. Dirty code reduces team morale. Dirty code makes programmers slower. Dirty code inhibits the formation of an ownership culture. If product concepts are not reflected in the code, programmers might implement features in ways that don’t make [...]

2 days after the election and we still cannot sure who will be Australia’s next Prime Minister. Most exciting election in Australia over the last 50 years? More like most disastrous to me. Although I did vote for that Mid-Night Oil guy (who else is worthy in Kingsford-Smith?) I gotta say that I am really [...]

From Leo Laport: Buzz Kill. It makes me feel like everything I’ve posted over the past four years on Twitter, Jaiku, Friendfeed, Plurk, Pownce, and, yes, Google Buzz, has been an immense waste of time. I was shouting into a vast echo chamber where no one could hear me because they were too busy shouting [...]

We have recently got a new car and are trying to offload my other cars — the white Pulsar is too small now for the family of 4, and Voyoge is too big to drive around the town. I have just put our 11 year old Nissan Pulsar N15 hatchback on Drive.com.au 2 nights ago… [...]

Took an 2.5 hours trip on CityCat on Brisbane River yesterday. So many bridges…

Last night Vivian and I managed to dine at Cha Cha Japanese Restaurant near Oasis on the Gold Coast high way. Food: Teppanyaki chicken + rice ($12.80), Tempura udon ($11.80), fried tofu ($6.80), Japanese green tea ($2.70). We actually meant to go to Cha Cha last time when we were on the Gold Coast (late [...]

Over the last week I have moved FOCUSER.net (yes the good ol site that does not seem to be used by anyone any more) and all my personal sites from VPSLink to Jumba‘s Virtuozzo VPS. Because It is Australian (servers in Sydney in my case), whereas VPSLink is in US Believe it or not, Jumba [...]

Via Hacker News. Fred Wilson talked about Being Present, because “you have about ten to twelve years to connect with your kids and then they turn into teenagers…” That’s a message to the hard working entrepreneur-parents out there. In fact working 9-5 can feel missing out, let along getting back home at almost 8pm each [...]

SMH/Drive: East beats West when it comes to road manners and safety. Looks like Asians are more likely to be safe drivers than caucasians. Again, that’s generally speaking base on statistics, and our unbelieves usually come from some special cases :)

The year so far has been hectic, and this blog has so far been neglected since mid last year. Indeed there has been quite a lot of things happening in life over the last 12 months. Moved back to Kennedy Street due to house renovation. Married for 10 years on 8 April 2010. Visited Google [...]

Saw this on Sydney Morning Herald yesterday — Google named Australia’s best place to work: After its outstandingly successful parent company topped a 100 Best Places To Work survey conducted by the US magazine Fortune, Google Australia has claimed the No.1 spot in a similar Australian poll. BRW, which conducted the study, said Google had [...]

What happened yesterday morning at 5:30am Anna called from her room that she wanted to go to the bathroom Got out of bed, went to her room, and then carried her all the way to bathroom for wee. Carried her all the way back to her room and put her to sleep. Back to my [...]

Via Simon. Here is my super-hero, created with The Hero Factory. No mention of what the knight is gifted at…

Just to preempt you that in case you have not seen me on MSN/Live Messenger for a while — I am still alive. Just that I decided that I would not use MSN Messenger any more. No. I’ve got lots of friends there — some I know in real life, and some are just acquaintance [...]

Here’s a picture of my Dell Latitude D630 when it boots up. The random freeze started around 2 days ago. Out of sudden the laptop will freeze, and left the screen with a blue’ish tint. A power cycle is required to get the computer back to work, and it happened a couple of times a [...]