new awesomeness has arrived in android market: Pocket Legend. if u r a fan of wow then definitely should try this...

SD card screwed up on my Nexus One

Argh... tried ddrescue and just dd, use autopsy/sleuthkit to figure out the partition offset by bytes, tried mounting the recovered image file, no luck. keep on getting this crap:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

I am glad I did a backup, but not so glad that it's been a while (1 month+)...

ah no wonder parking lot is pretty empty this morning. thanks twitter for letting me know what today is... :-p

rainy day = a day at Super Franks for Cyrus... and about one thousand other kids...

just got an email from netflix saying Netflix on wii is now disc-less too. awesomeness!!! (would be even better if wii can do 1080p HD..)

awesomely done angry birds for android... found 1 hidden golden/easter egg 20min into the game. fun time!

work out 4 out of 5 work days this week. Work-life balance = 0:1 :-)

84°F in mid-october. are you kidding me?

a sci-fi looking sunset

I think "they" have finally arrived... we're under attack~

Firefox for android (beta) looking real good. ui is nicely designed. great potentials. oddness: install takes out about 30 MB rom space, though it offloaded a lot to SD now still takes about 17mb and that's before factoring cache and installing and plugin.

also I miss to find a switch for user-agent. and seems like its loading google.com in desktop browser mode

test

Testing my blog... haven't done a thing for too long

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAbsmHMAhrQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player excited. love the form factor, swype keyboard, plugin keyboard, video calling... etc. pls pls don't be sooo expensive.

it smells like it will rain hard

I fix GSA by day and fix Android by night... #hardworker_at_google just fixed this issue on my phone: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9593

viewing open houses made me realize how much I've missed to have a home office space again...

wow I'm getting full bars for tmo 3g at home. that's really good and really odd.

SF is under heat wave attack. 89°F! so we are back to our favorite ice cream place at 24th and Harrison again.

love how screen rotation lock is implemented on the latest Amazon kindle app for android!

Humphry Slocombe 1 (415) 550-6971 2790 Harrison St., San Francisco, CA http://m.google.com/u/m/wXenmu

waiting for my perfect ice cream....

Humphry Slocombe 1 (415) 550-6971 2790 Harrison St., San Francisco, CA http://m.google.com/u/m/wXenmu

waiting for my perfect ice cream...

that's it. minisquadron is my new favorite game on android. love it!

thanks everyone for the warm bday wishes - 多謝大家的生日祝福囉~

三十而立 四十而不惑 五十而知天命 六十而耳顺... 還有十年可以去懵懂迷惑 嘿 :-)

"人生在世，充分圓滿的自由根本是不能的。解脫一切慾望而得以 大徹大悟，不是常人之所能。" -- 金庸.笑傲江湖.後記

rossi playground @ st

some kool play structures in this nice playground made me want to be a kid again.

趙客縵胡纓 吳鉤霜雪明 銀鞍照白馬 颯沓如流星 十步殺ㄧ人 千里不留行 事了彿衣去 不留身與名

audible.com android app is pretty cool! but $15 for one book per month still makes me hesitate... price of knowledge or status quote?

menu | settings | SD card and phone storage | internal phone storage | available space = X If X >= 30M: myFroyo=happy_state else: remove_some_app_and_whine=True

all the cache created by various apps is eating off my android phone's ROM. want that 6gb internal memory space on the Droid X...

學而不思則罔，思而不學則殆...

family dinner at ozura @ concord

and little Cyrus behaves REALLY good :-)

family dinner at ozura @ concord

and little Cyrus behaves REALLY good :-)

十年之後又開始重讀金庸 剛看完了連城訣 真不錯 :-)

checking out from work. haven't felt this productive for a while. :-) actually had time to work out a bit at the gym~

xScope... WOW! What a nice browser on android! feels faster than stock browser, looks like chrome, works purely out of SD card. luv!

what's better than a morning when a colony of ants decided to move into your laptop. I'm literally debugging my laptop!

http://dvice.com/archives/2010/07/bootleg-optimus.php

optimus prime recycled... (pic)

argh... if only if nexus one has more rom... 2gb will be much better

Enrique Tang (@heta13) has shared a Tweet with you: "AndroidDev: Game devs: IGN now reviewing Android games. http://go.ign.com/d7EJJ5" --http://www.twitter.com/AndroidDev/status/18633223939

eczema sucks big time. I wish no kids in this ever get it.

yay its the weekend~ meh... baby makes me to have mixed feelings about weekends and holidays...

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN159754220100615

major recall to very common drugs likely in your closets too

temperature rose quickly thes e few days. we are pretty screwed by a shipment delay for a portable AC unit from Target... soooo hot.

anniversary dinner @ Vega ( http://www.google.com/m/place?cid=-8968368462254891296 ) in Bernal Height, SF. we had a lovely time.

used opentable for the 1st time. was surprised how well google integrate with opentable and yelp

some movies never gets old. watched 'The Rock's again. Sean Connery is awesome.

just saw the season finale of 'Flash Forward.' http://bit.ly/bGCxS6 It's a great one! It's a shame ABC is not renewing it...

had a great time fruit picking in Brentwood today. little Cyrus' having a great sleep now... :-)

今天終於把龍應台的目送看完了 最後的一章竟然令我熱淚盈匡...

there was a short quake about 40 min ago. feels like about 4 degree... sense any disturbance in The Force?

got home and found a distant neighbor partying with loud music. its almost 11pm already!! have some decency ppl! my kid is sleeping.

horray~ PixelPipe finally added Google Buzz support. I am done with the weird 'connected sites' logic on buzz :)

101and 237 sucks

seesmic beta running nicely on my n1 now as my buzz client (thanks to the newly opened buzz API)

Boomer. the widget only works if a twitter account is setup with seesmic :-/

does it get easier to set up goals as you gets a bit older? it does to me. as some noise signal disappear with age...

ah... I was 3 hours too late to sign up for the dropbox Android apparently beta... drooool

kc shopping @ great mall after a movie

forever 21 has kids and extended size sections too!

finally get 2b alone with lovely wife and hang out @ great mall. missing this dating part of our lives :-)

oh yeah. we LOVE our babysitter. she's wonderful.

very, very, tired. now, why the heck do I need to go one extra level down to get to ',' on android's soft keyboard.

fun with grandpa

sad. i broke my stock n1 headset. lucky i still have a Bluetooth adapter.

how about this bike, mom?

http://bit.ly/bCG1Ut one of the 1st few games I played when I was little. Ah.. the good old time. video: http://bit.ly/9c9PzF

when lala.com comes up with an android app, it'd be the killer app for me. (as much of a killer app as a Dropbox app). loving Pandora now

the caffinne power house

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/v98iyaYuDX4/battlestar-galactica-meets-the-beastie-boys-for-sabotage-perfected

hey dad, im playing this game called 'sitting like a gangster.'

Pandora loved me yesterday, played me a bunch of lovely songs, today she doesn't and gave me a bunch of weird ones. lucky I still have Lala~

Sakamoto Ryuichi (坂本龍一) - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Live) http://youtu.be/YwkuS9FlB7M

now... if there's a app for video podcasts as good as the google listen...

Tough week - SICK!

Everyone was sick this past week. We even lost track of how this one gets started. Any how, Cyrus started a fever past weekend, and went thru 4 days of fever (2 days b4 and 2 days after seeing his doctor). All the running nose, mucus productive coughing, vomiting, fever, rubbing his face until they are broken.. etc are back again. Then I got sick too, just stuffy nose and minor coughing fit. A day later, Kristie gets even sicker than me, she even feel light header and feverish...

Anyway, I am enjoying a bit of peach and quiet time laying on my couch, staring into the dark, listening to lala.com and blog a bit, before going back to antibiotics and coughing syrups...

Headache, stress from home...

Woke up with a headache again. No stuffy nose. Perhaps caused by stress from work and home? Kristie's feeling ill on her back (chronic), her hand (bruised recently), her cold (started yesterday, again) so her temper became very ill too... I think I am gonna watch a movie tonight, if this headache is gone.

Anniversary dinner @ bijou on B st. Hayward.

a great place for dinner and/or party! but probably not so much for a 15 month old

my sis in law and a big bird at Sears

free food.. i mean 'friends and family day' thx Sears

my weekend is full of dart shooting fun

technology developed by my generous dad in law

h1n1 vaccine and farmers market

good combination...

lunch is served... finally

after 1.5 hr of walking around Berkeley

little big man and his PMD

'now where is that. :50 track...'

My new favorite song on Imeem (for Okami fans..)

Reset - Mika Matsuura

Headache day

Yikes, woke up with a bad headache and decided not to go to office today. took excedrin after breakfast did not help this time. Slept a bit helped, but I slept a good 7 hours last night...

Two possible causes: Sinus - one side of my nose was stuffy when I woke up. or Eyes - they were tired yesterday... I finally decided the 2560 x 1600 resolution on my HP 30" monitor at work was too small for me, I adjust the resolution to 1920x1200 and that made me felt a bit better.

sleepy piggy

cyrus is one year old now.. unbelevable

Cyrus' B-day Party!

Cyrus' got his 1st B-day party at our neighborhood's clubhouse.
Check out the pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/heta13/2009Cyrus1stBDay#
And some videos at the usual place:
http://www.youtube.com/user/heta13#play/all/uploads-all/1/IaI6bWpNL-k
http://www.youtube.com/user/heta13#play/all/uploads-all/2/1DsUchXoY6g

I've got a mild case of headache waking up in the morning, but it went away quickly after I took a Excedrin after breakfast... lucky.

aerial atom!

I like

bored#1

1st headache in a while

haven't had a headache since the last doctor's visit (when KC had Mono) but a minor one starting since last night after the Bowling game.

Didn't sleep well, since I woke up with headache coming and going. It feels like a bit of tightness on the upper right side of my head... a bit like muscle sore.

At Bowling game (since that seems to be when the headache start) I ate some fried chicken and shrimp with some typical dipping. and drunk a big cup of Pepsi.

And I suck at Bowling. I bet this is why I got a headache.

[update] Thibault's got some nice photos from the Bowling team outing:

Serenity Prayer

It's a nice prayer, from movie 'Mr. Brooks'

God grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

Courage to change the things I can;

And wisdom to know the difference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenity_Prayer

cool looking hand dryer by Dyson

saw this Great America last week, have it in office now. awesome

Thoughts and wishes on Android...

My Android G1 sucks a$$ today. 90% of the time when I tried to do something, it would be busying doing sync in the 'background.' But the whole thing just slowed to a halt, that I feel like I am the background task, deprioritized.

I started to wonder why Android can suck like this. Essentially it's a computer with a 528MHz processor and about 128MB of RAM and some flash drive space (got a 8GB SD card in it). 10 years back, this is probably one of the better computer on the lot, and I remember having a similar system and I could play Grim Fandango, Crusader, Wing Commander 4, Need For Speed 2, and Quake 2 on it. Not too shabby at all.

So why this computer can't handle the current demand now? Touchscreen shouldn't be an issue, it's really just an extra simple channel (IRQ?) for the CPU bus to handle the event. Animation? come on, if I could play all those games, why not on this platform? My guess is that the only thing is probably just the cellular signal, battery handling, and data syncing that could be costing heavier performance issues.

So if the platform can have a terrific way to handle cellular signal, battery, and data syncing while not losing a whole lot of CPU/memory resource, then we can have a much better experience. And perhaps one day, we can play the next Bioshock on Android? I'd love to see that day come.

Religious book v.s. techy book...

Two nights in a row, I had the option to read either 'Head First Java' or 'The Reason for God - Belief in an Age of Skepticism' and both nights I chose to read the latter. Not sure why I do that, perhaps I am feeling a bit guilty that this book has been sitting on my bedside for longer than a year now and I've never read over 100 pages of it (total < 300 pages) Or maybe I am just a bit spiritual?

cyrus the gangsta going for a roadtrip

meek park visiting. 1st try at least

Tires for Celica

Just some random note I made when shopping around for tires for our 1990 Celica GT. Tire type is 185/65 R14 86H (14 inches)

big-o - john

$360 including work and balancing

lester's - joey

$321 work and balacing (need to get the tires, tomorrow)

larry's - saul

$320 50000 miles, free flat repair and rotation during life of tires

1:30 including everything

good year - Sy tires - Matt

$415.70

wheel work chris

$380 80000 miles - yokahama

$301 40000 miles -

kristie 的淋巴腺炎

在我們全家大病一場後一個月 Kristie又感染了淋巴腺炎。我還不知道淋巴腺也會發炎呢。不過看來這病徵也滿痛苦的，搞得kristie脖子痛 吞嚥時也會痛 連帶著又發燒，忽冷忽熱 弄的一整天她都在頭痛。

Interesting read on AmazonEC2 and OpenVPN

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9915

Talking about merging internal and cloud infrastructures together using OpenVPN.

General blog

haven't post for a while so I should put up some updates... we went through a tough month but finally nobody is sick now. Cyrus is happily back to his child care and growing faster than ever. We were told his height is at 80 percentile, though the weight is at 25 percentile due to the illness he just gone thru. He's much more talkative now and very demanding at times. Seems like he will certainly grow into somebody who knows very well what he wants. Last week as Kristie's breast milk supply started to dwindle, we decided to start a transition plan for Cyrus to change to formula. He refused violently at first, even go without drinking milk for a day. The 3rd day we finally change to another brand and that really helped. He's happily taking 50-60% of formula mixed in now.

What else is new other than the baby? ha, I started to get back to PC gaming again. as incredible as it may sounds, I allocated every Friday night to playing some games. Going through my poor game collections, the oldest game that I haven't played through is Prince of Persia 2 Warrior within from 2004! but I am not crazy about that game much... started from trying to finish Half-life 2 Episode 2 :-) Then I will be onto you, Big daddy in Bioshock (alright alright, I know big sister is coming out in BioShock 2. haven't played any games != haven't been updating myself with game news)

job is going well, so far, I've been able to research and learn quite a bit of programming and technologies stuffs, while my recent promotion gets the paycheck thicker = happy. I have to say I am pretty sick of just doing research all week without any outcome tho. I want to get something out that works!

Anyway, nice time. peace out.

GoogleServe - Volunteering

learned of this cool place in my neighborhood through the Volunteer experience:

Chabot Space and Science Center @ Oakland

http://www.chabotspace.org/

http://picasaweb.google.com/shyamseshadri/GoogleServe09#5345395336410282930

Sick sick sick II

it's been a long month for the family. Since I got since a month ago, baby Cyrus got it from me, and then Kristie got it from the baby, and after a while I recovered a bit, but again catch a slight variance from baby Cyrus. We went to ER 3 times in 3 days two weeks ago, 2 times were for Cyrus hitting a fever @ 104' and once to clear Kristie from the infamous Swine flu...

Anyway, apparently the saga isn't over, and we are not clear from this curse yet... while me and Kristie slowly recovered to almost 100% now, Cyrus was also seem to be doing much better last week... he still cough a bit with mucus and running nose a bit, but he was fine otherwise. Unfortunately, one day after his 9th month checkup (which doctor said he seems like a perfectly healthy 9th month old baby), he spent another weekend with running fever and us pumping him with Tylonol and Moltrin. (and we immediatedly decided to try a different doctor) The previous verdicts from the ER was that one doc said he's got ear infection, the latter said he's got pneumonia (with x-ray). This time, the poor little guy again went through x-ray and also a blood test... now he's said to have Bronchitis and now he's going thru his 3rd round of antibiotic...

I don't believe in any specific god, but I do pray to the spirit that this curse can be over soon, and little Cyrus can go through this without any negative impact to his future health...

Watch out, here comes Transforminator!

Sick sick sick

been sick for the past week, slowly recovering from the cold. Doctor said it's not swine flu :-p
but now I got Cyrus into it too... poor little guy coughs and running stuffy nose.. hope he's not coming down with a ear infection.

Self-doubting...

Three years ago I posted something on this very blog saying that I decided to give up on learning the coding stuffs that's over my head. Three years later I am still trying to figure out what the heck can I really pick up and be good at. Feeling a bit pathetic, but who says being stubborn isn't the important factor to be successful?
Python, Django, Google Appengine... here I come...

Simpson's got new opening score?!

The new Simpsons' got a nice new opening score, and be sure not to miss the ending score on this one too!