Roy Tang

I tried the new Yahoo Mail Beta for a while, but I decided to switch back just now. Short review: it's nice looking, but feels a tad sluggish. Well, sluggish compared to gmail at least. The biggest problem is that scrollbar in the message list. It's like promising that you can scroll through all your messages, but when you try to scroll to a far away part of the list, you just get a lot of “Loading… " text.

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user roytang on 2006-04-24 Escape ycc/ESC — Tagged as: flash games

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user roytang on 2006-04-23 How to destroy the Earth @ Things Of Interest — Tagged as: cool humor diesel sweeties: pixelated robot romance web comic & t-shirt party — Tagged as: webcomics

Usually, whenever a Catholic priest gives a homily during Mass, he stands behind a pulpit and generally act like they're making a speech. At the place where I go to Mass, the priests prefer to stand in front of the altar, closer to the audience, holding a microphone in their hands and pacing around a bit during the homily. I remarked to my brother during the Easter Sunday mass: “I bet priests would make great stand-up comics.

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the four agreements, don miguel ruiz book – a code for life and personal development ** agreement 1 ** Be impeccable with your word – Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. ** agreement 2

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user roytang on 2006-04-19 Floatutorial: Step by step CSS float tutorial — Tagged as: coding css design web Recording Industry vs The People — Tagged as: music politics tech JavaScript RegExp Example: Regular Expression Tester — Tagged as: coding javascript

There are a handful of issues that would influence the general direction of the human race in years to come. Terrorism, oil scarcity, trade imbalances and worldwide poverty come to mind, and these are the ones most commonly discussed in mainstream media. There is however, another important battle being waged that is far removed from the minds of the everyday person. That battle is Recording Industry vs The People. Some of the posts at the above blog are awesome reads and point to an alarming pattern of abuse of the United States’ judicial system by large corporations with armies of lawyers at their disposal waging a war against ordinary American citizens.

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user roytang on 2006-04-14 YouTube – darth vader police japan — Tagged as: funny starwars videos

I wonder if the Catholic Church considers piracy as a sin… at least one that I should be confessing to a priest during er… confession. If so, I suppose I have more than ten years’ worth of piracy-related sins to confess. Yeah, I go to confession. Once a year, around the Holy Week period usually. Once a year is the minimum frequency required by the Catholic Church, but I wonder how many observe it?

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One would think it an unfair comparision, seeing as how BG2 is at least 5 years older that Suiko5. But BG2 holds up pretty well, I end having a mental coin toss as to which game I will play at any one time. They both have their merits. Suiko5 Pros: Awesome story, lots of background and character depth. Cons: Extremely narrow gameplay, heavily scripted. Hero looks girly. Status: 12 hours in.

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I feel like I should be used to it, but summer seems a lot more intense this year.

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user roytang on 2006-04-10 GameDev.net – How To Build a Game In A Week From Scratch With No Budget — Tagged as: cool gamedev

_ (My previous practice was never to post an entry about a game until I'd finished it. This was a good idea during those days that I had a lot of free time and could finish the average RPG in a week. I haven't been in that state for four years.) _ My brother warned me that according to reviews, the first eight hours or so of Suikoden V were quite draggy.

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Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user roytang on 2006-04-06 How I won the Mid-Atlantic regionals with my Song of Blood Deck How I won the Mid-Atlantic regionals with my Song of Blood Deck — Tagged as: magicthegathering

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user roytang on 2006-04-05 How I Work: Bill Gates – Apr. 4, 2006 — Tagged as: articles lifehacks How to be Lucky: ProBlogger Blog Tips — Tagged as: lifehacks

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user roytang on 2006-04-04 Dumb: The Game — Tagged as: games puzzles

Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user roytang on 2006-04-02 Why specs matter [dive into mark] — Tagged as: articles development How to Have a 36 Hour Day — Tagged as: lifehacks Qooqle Video — Tagged as: videos Anytime is the Right Time to Start a Company – Blue Flavor — Tagged as: articles entrepreneurship Developer Testing, Discussions about Software Quality —

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Screenshot 01-Apr-2006 I'm getting a lot more comfortable with Ubuntu… I spent about half an hour today customizing the environment and setting up some stuff. I can do my downloading in Ubuntu now; I just need to set up some sort of shared FAT32 partition that both WinXP and Ubuntu can access for easy transfer between the two OS. (Currently, Ubuntu only has read-only access to the NTFS file system)

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Yesterday, the guard at my office building pissed me off quite a bit. He refused to let me in because I was wearing slippers! Since we dress casually on Saturdays, very so often I like to wear slippers to work, especially when I'm feeling too lazy to put on socks. They never gave me any trouble before, so I argued with the guard for a bit. Stubborn-headed, he still wouldn't let me in.

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I've always been suspicious of radio station top ten lists, assuming they are predetermined marketing scams and not really based on actual listener requests. When I was in high school I wanted to put this theory to the test by having a whole lot of people call one station and request a really old song – my choice at the time was “Hey Jude” by the Beatles. Unfortunately, my plan fell through because I could not gather the critical mass needed to accomplish it.

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