http://davidyang.net Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:52:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I feel so special to have been tagged by Sarah Cooper that I've come out of hibernation and have decided to make a Ali-like comeback to blog posting. From Sarah:These are the rules of this particular meme: 1. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves. ... http://davidyang.net/2008/01/23/8-random-things-about-me/ http://davidyang.net/2007/03/21/projects/ Digg entry http://davidyang.net/2006/08/25/how-to-start-a-successful-startup/ Just putting this out there in case any water pressure/buoyancy experts ever are super bored and stumble upon my corner of the Internet.  I, like many others out there I'm sure, love Oreo cookies with milk.  If you hold the cookie down in the milk (so that the cookie is vertical) ... http://davidyang.net/2006/08/24/oreo-cookies-and-milk-pressure/ Ever since I went to TopCoder's 2004 Open I've been interested in improving my programming skills (right now I would rank my skills right above "enough to pay the bills"-level but I would like to see them reach "ain't nothing but a google-thang"-level).  Besides competing in more TopCoder events and solving ... http://davidyang.net/2006/08/24/programming-contest-training/ I've always been interested in speed-reading (though I'm now afraid that training myself for speed reading has in fact lowered my reading comprehension) and saw a link to a cool utility called Spreeder on Lifehacker today.  The basic premise of this tool is that you paste in some text and ... http://davidyang.net/2006/08/24/forced-speed-reading-training-with-spreedrcom/ Sounds pretty good: http://tones.wolfram.com/generate/advanced.html http://davidyang.net/2006/08/23/wolfram-automatic-music-generator/ http://blog.scribestudio.com/articles/2006/07/09/d... Slides available here: http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000593.html http://davidyang.net/2006/08/23/david-heinemeier-hanssons-railsconf-2006-keynote-on-restful-urls-in-rails/ CNN article on how some ad supported bloggers are making as much as $60k a year in advertising revenue (techcrunch).  All I have to say is: dammnnn... http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2... Cleverly enough, CNN then links to this series of articles right below it: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/whatittake... http://davidyang.net/2006/08/23/blogging-for-dollars/ hilarious post on the social structure of nouns, verbs and adjectives in the realms of javaland et al. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html http://davidyang.net/2006/08/19/kingdom-of-javaland/