"Twitter Genius"

A Craiglist's job listing posting caught my eye today. The role is as an
“expert” social media marketer for some sort of e-commerce startup. “I need someone who tweets in their sleep and updates their fb status before calling their mom on Mother’s Day,” the description reads. Wait until you see what the applicant need to do to apply for this kind of job.

Gesture computing is a current hip

A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to develop a device that can understand my hand gestures to accomplish certain task like taking photo, browsing and other task that normally you need a computer, PDA or handphone to accomplish that. This idea isn't new as I recalled, Microsoft did come out with their Surface device and Nintendo with their hand-wobling Wii several years back. Then I start to see numerous of similar product (prototype mostly) start to emerge.

Safari 4 dominates browser benchmark

ZDnet has tested out 7 leading browsers using SunSpider (a suite of JavaScript test) to measure which browser is the quickest. I guess the Safari 4 took the first place beating the other 6 browsers. That is surprising as I thought Google Chrome is the quickest.

Out of curiosity, I took the benchmark test for Safari browser on Mac OS X using the same SunSpider benchmarking tool. Surprisingly, my result is much faster (576.2ms) compared to ZDNet result (967ms). Maybe the internet connection speed has affect on the final result.

Regular Joe might say that why bother taking such benchmarking test? Browser is just browser. Well, the modern web application is heavily loaded with Javascript for various purposes (AJAX, rating, behind the scene things). So using a browser with faster Javascript execution time might come handy. Of course this is not applied to me as I use 5 different browsers in daily basis. For me each browser has their own pros,  cons and some set of tools to complete my daily job. Hunters uses different bullet and weapon to hunt different kind preys don't they?

A year ends

As 2009 set sail to the end, I think this is the longest year I ever felt. So many events set place this year; witness betrayal at first hand, lost a job, get broke, found few other jobs, new baby boy, said goodbye to old friends and said hello to new ones. With so much to do to keep on living, this year is the most productive year and the most dramatic ever.

In single year I had to take up responsibility all the jobs that left to me. From sales to project manager down to delivery boy with the risk of not getting any paid at all.

How do I survived? I don't know myself. I guess the set of skill that I acquired from very long career helps a lot. And not to forget the support from my family, wife, kids, mom & dad, brothers & sis.

I don't know what is coming in 2010 but it doesn't matter. In the end, what matters the most is my family.