Roy Tang

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user roytang on 2006-03-26 Main Page – Wikiquote — Tagged as: quotes Zen is Boring! — Tagged as: articles psychology zen FORTUNE: Secrets of greatness: How I work – Mar. 16, 2006 — Tagged as: articles lifehacks Be smarter at work, slack off – Mar. 17, 2006 — Tagged as: articles lifehacks How to make a custom TV-torrent feed · TorrentFreak, torrents and more —

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Ballmer, Bemused – Forbes.com An interview with Steve Ballmer – a lot of “Microsoft is cool” gibberish, but one nice quote stands out for me: Forbes.com: Right now, I can go out and get a free alternative to just about every product Microsoft sells. Why do people keep paying you for something they could get free? Ballmer: One, people value their time. Our stuff does more, and they like that.

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I attended Grand Prix Manila last March 17, 2006, and the event was jam-packed with people. Can you find me in the picture? Maybe it's just me, but Wizard's coverage of Grand Prix Manila last weekend seems just a tad condescending to Filipino Magic players. Not that we mind, after all, local bets actually did kick ass and shrugged off the Japanese invasion. If you are in fact a Filipino Magic player, then I hope you know what I'm talking about – last weekend at the Robinson's Galleria Trade Hall, almost four hundred local and foreign Magic: The Gathering players gathered for the third-ever Grand Prix event held in Manila.

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user roytang on 2006-03-20 Babble: The Ultimate Word Game — Tagged as: games web-based

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user roytang on 2006-03-12 WordPress – USB — Wordpress on a stickTagged as: usb wordpress

Books I've finished reading in the past few months: _ Rapid Development _ by Steve McConnell – I was browsing through my company's small library of development books and found this little gem among the usual language-specific tomes. A bit old, but I know from Code Complete that Steve McConnell really hits in the mark with regard to software best practices. This book is aimed mainly at technical leads — coincidentally, that was my role at the time.

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user roytang on 2006-03-09 Escapa! — “Click and hold the red square. Now, move it so that you neither touch the walls nor get hit by any of the blue blocks If you make it to 18 seconds, you are doing brilliantly!” Mindless! After a few tries I made it to 21 secs running on evasive instinct Tagged as: cool games javascript

I think I'm starting to get the hang of this :p This whole thing with Kubuntu, where I have to use Adept to install stuff is really weirding out my Windows-geek tendencies. For today, all I wanted was to get some mp3s playing on Kubuntu. Unfortunately, the default included players (Kaffeine and Amarok) were giving me trouble, claiming they could not play mp3s! I asked around for some help, and read some FAQs, but I kept getting errors trying to download and install gstreamer-mad 0.

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user roytang on 2006-03-08 Tour de Babel — Article from an Amazon employee comparing different programming languagesTagged as: articles programming

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user roytang on 2006-03-04 20 greatest cartoon characters — Tagged as: cartoons Transformers: Evolution — Awesome alternate-universe Transformers series set during the early industrial age. Check out the initial sketches!Tagged as: comics transformers YouTube – Real Life Simpsons Intro — Tagged as: simpsons

World Public Opinion Check out the link, apparently the Philippines is the United States’ #1 fan.