Allen Lew’s Thoughts

My answer for “life, the universe, and everything”

Entries from January 2006

You Should Watch the Super Bowl Like It’s Your Job

January 30th, 2006 · Comments Off

ABC News: You Should Watch the Super Bowl Like It’s Your Job- “Smart, savvy business people pride themselves on keeping up with current events, politics and celebrity gossip so they always have interesting tidbits to contribute to small talk at meetings, parties and social outings. They know that idle chitchat is awfully valuable in building [...]

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The Brothers of 1913

January 29th, 2006 · Comments Off

The Unofficial AEPi blog takes some design queues from my Calstuff design. It is also written by one of my Calstuff partners, Andy.
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Upgrade to Wordpress 2.0

January 21st, 2006 · Comments Off

Finally upgraded to Wordpress 2.0. Not a monumentual leap over the previous version, but still good. The plugins I use are working better actually than they were before.
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Star Wars Transformers

January 18th, 2006 · Comments Off

IGN: Playtime with Star Wars Transformers- This has got to be close to the ultimate nerd toy.
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Feed Icons

January 13th, 2006 · Comments Off

Feed Icons-The new standard feed icon is the one on Mozilla Firefox and its live bookmarks. I finally implemented these on the site; now we need a standard way of putting them into an RSS reader.
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Simple Contextual Advertising System

January 13th, 2006 · Comments Off

Simple Contextual Advertising System- Finally found a way to replace words with links or whatever in javascript.
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About:blank for less wasted time on the Web - Lifehacker

January 13th, 2006 · Comments Off

About:blank for less wasted time on the Web-I’ve been saying to do this for years.
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At the movies

January 13th, 2006 · Comments Off

One of my inspirations for building this site, Jason Kottke, has a cool way of posting about the movies he’s watched. I’m attempting to add something similiar to this site, using the Rate My Stuff plugin. Two movies are listed below. I’m still tweaking and perfecting this though.
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King Kong (2005)

January 13th, 2006 · Comments Off

I am so glad they set this movie in the past, since a modern setting would have killed the wonder of the movie (the old time New York scenes do tend to distract you from the movie though). Terrific movie, though not very strong plot-wise.
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Memoirs of a Geisha

January 13th, 2006 · Comments Off

A beautiful movie, but the acting is not without its flaws. This is mostly due to its non-native English speaking cast.
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