Niniane's Blog

IM with my brother last week. (He works at Blizzard.) Tom: There's a tornado hitting Irvine right now. niniane: omg! Are you okay? To...

One day at lunch, a Googler told us that he was recently contacted by his first crush from elementary school. Apparently, what happened was ...

I just read Into Thin Air , a tale of the fatal 1996 Everest expedition. The author is a mountaineering enthusiast turned journalist. He we...

Steve Job's powers as a public speaker are well-known, but I never fully understood it until a few nights ago. I watched his Stanford c...

Last week I visited my brother Tom at his new job at Blizzard. Standing with the statue in the courtyard. Later I referred to the "ogr...

I changed my TF-IDF open-source package to use the MIT license, so that it is more freely re-usable. I also fixed a couple of issues, and u...

At a San Francisco bar over the weekend, I discovered that the Indian guy standing next to me (friend of friend) was holding a rice hat. He...

Over instant messenger with my friend Nehster. Nehster. niniane: i Nehster: but you use the library niniane: omg what if there is fire ...

I just watched this tech-talk video "BORN AND RAISED IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP" about a man who lived the first 23 years of his life...

I think there should exist games that teach computer science concepts: - regular expressions - A* search - pointers - Dijkstra's alg...

My friend Nehster is shopping for a new couch, and stumbled upon the overstock.com couch which I just purchased last month. (This is the sa...

Talking in a group of engineers: "I want a phone number that I can call and get the current time. A bunch of them went out of business...

My friend CM came over to my house over the weekend. I heard him laughing in the kitchen, while I was in another room. Me: "What's...

When I worked for Microsoft in the early 2000's, one of the main features I developed was a cloud rendering system for Flight Simulator....

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Over instant messenger. omst: i just saw avatar. visually amazing. the story was less so. sooo long. but i couldn't leave to go to the ...

***** Tiny spoiler below! ***** In the movie, there is a scene at the end where Irene Adler says to Sherlock Holmes, "Everyone has a we...

On Sunday, I cooked noodles for a few friends from college and Google. Yesterday, on the phone with my parents: Me: "I did a noodle ba...

I've been a reader of the popular Singaporean blog Xiaxue for four years, ever since I saw it on the Technorati Top 100 list. Her lates...

Eating dinner at Cafe Moma in building 45 with Dan, discussing the antics of our college friend Po. Me: "If I met Po nowadays, for exam...