Month: May 2004

I’m a little behind on this, but last week a friend of mine across this weird Japanese drink in Chinatown. Well, I think it’s Japanese, and not because I recognize the language. Rather: the drink comes with a glass marble on the inside of the bottle. Observe: Also, it came with instructions. Originally the marble…

The secret to productivity, I suspect, is to give yourself as little free time as possible. I am achieving this through a combination of school, work, martial arts, Portuguese lessons, guitar lessons, and homework for a few of the above. When I get home I’m so used to doing this or that activity that I…

Some things just need to be drilled into your head over and over again, and cannot be said enough. This is one: news is irrelevant and boring. (The author said this as he just finished reading a brief article on the Sony Vaio 20GB MP3 player. The irony.) The above dude, by the way, is…

I recently came across a coworker with the same mobile device as me who has a surprising collection of Java apps for it. Of course I could never find any on my own – but I have now picked up the collection, which includes Tetris, XIII (mobile device version), the Q*Bert that came with the…

I came across a cool little demo of an app today while sorting all of my Sony Ericsson T616 photos through iPhoto. The shots have a bad habit of being named “Picture (#)”, which obviously causes a lot of repetition on my machine. Anyway, here’s the app. The shareware version only names up to ten…