Niniane's Blog

I am very impressed by the quality of the text-to-speech in this video.  It is from the group Anonymous, on behalf of Aaron Swartz. I th...

At survival school, they taught us to compare down. Let's say it's very cold and you are sleeping on the ground, on a bed of pine ...

After tea with parents, my mom shared an umbrella with me. Me: You're so great to share the umbrella with me! Mom: Of course. Mo...

I rented an apartment for my family in Puerto Vallarta.  It is near the ocean. (Mom walking onto balcony) I was worried that my br...

I am in Puerto Vallarta with my parents and brother.  Today we went to Botanical Gardens. The main attraction of the gardens was ea...

In 2006, I wrote this guide "How to Prepare for a Software Engineering Interview" . Since then, I've been frequently asked: ...

Cathy, one of the graphic designers at Minted, made this cake. It is a mocha chip and peppermint cake.  We used it to wish the inte...

Last weekend, I went to Dickens Fair, an annual occurrence in Daly City. I finally understand why some people get addicted to shopping.  ...

Today I got LASIK. I was nervous leading up to it, because it is lasers in my eye !  But contacts started causing irritation throughout t...

Guess which movie I saw yesterday?  (Note the ears.) The movie starts out slow, and plays out one of my biggest nightmares: strangers...

Sha-mayn is visiting me. It is so amazing, but then it just makes me think of how sad it will be tomorrow when she goes back to Manhattan. ...

James sent me this "Secret Diary of Aragorn" post .  It pretends to be the diary of Aragorn from Lord of the Rings. I was ve...

Michelle and I had such a lovely cooking lesson with Christine Ha, the blind chef who won the reality cooking show Master Chef. Chr...

Is this the best music video ever?

Recently, two different friends talked to me about motivating their project partners. Friend: "I want my partners to work hard.  Does...

Late at night, we needed to perform a small site maintenance.  US users are sleeping, but it's the middle of the day in Australia. X: ...

Our shelves of Minted shirts! When I worked at Microsoft, because there were so few women, the shirts came only in men's sizes. It sen...

James volunteered to moderate my blog comments for me.  This is exciting, to say the least. James: "I set up push notifications on my p...

My mom cooked a token turkey breast this year. She was all stressed over it, even though it was pre-marinated and just needed to be roaste...

At work, around 7pm when most people have gone home. Me: "Does M know that he's supposed to deploy code tonight?" D: "Yes...