"I Surf So You Don't Have To" #2

(pic from http://www.sgolubev.com)

In case you missed why I'm doing this, here's the previous post on why I started this.

Several people have asked me after my last post, so I better clarify it here. No, that's not me surfing. I don't know how to surf. I just use my super power skill (heard of Google?) to find these surfing images.

Alright, we now return to our regularly scheduled program.

1. This one is a bit of old news. Read DownloadSquad.com? Never heard of them? It's the same company who does Engadgets, TUAW, etc. Still never heard of them? Then never mind, skip to #2.
   
   But if you have. One of my Twitter friends @harrisja now writes for them. Congrats to Jason! One of his articles, he had me in the same screenshot as Scoble, weird, huh? It took me a few weeks to realize it.
   
   
   
2. Apple Inc. got a new board member. Chairman and CEO of woman's beauty firm Avon Products, Andrea Jung, has joined the Apple's board, bringing its total number of directors to eight. Never heard of her? Check her out on Forbes.
   
   
   And in case you are wondering who the other board members are at Apple:
   - Bill Campbell (Chairman and former CEO of Intuit)
   - Millard Drexler (Chairman and CEO of J. Crew)
   - Albert Gore (Former Vice President of the United States)
   - Steve Jobs (CEO, Apple)
   - Arthur D. Levinson Ph.D (Chairman and CEO of Genentech)
   - Dr. Eric Schmidt (CEO of Google)
   - Jerry York (Chairman, President, and CEO of Harwinton Capital)
   
   
3. Learned a new term, albeit geeky one. A friend wrote on my Facebok wall "looks like you got joe-jobbed", after I twittered that someone unleashed the spam monster on my personal email server. I had no idea what that meant at first. But when we met up later, he explained it to me.
   
   According to Wikipedia: a joe job is a spam attack using spoofed sender data and aimed at tarnishing the reputation of the apparent sender and/or induce the recipients to take action against him. The name "joe job" originated from such a spam attack on Joe Doll, webmaster of Joe's Cyberpost.
   
   
4. Excited that we're going back to Taiwan on vacation for 2 weeks in March. Just in time for Taiwan's 2008 presidential election. See, I warned you in the first post that there would be tibbits in here that you might not care about. Moving on...
   
   
5. Oh wait. Speaking of Taiwan, here's a YouTube video which ~50,000 have watched, titled "Best Taiwanese Parliament Fights Of All Time!". Kinda embarrasing as a Taiwanese, but you konw what they say? It's democrazy at work. Oh, did I type "z", I meant democracy.
   
   
   
6. You might have heard recently (or not) of more high-profile Googlers leaving. One of them being Kevin Fox, the Gmail UI designer. It's now public on FriendFeed's blog that he has joined his ex-colleague Paul Buchheit who is described as the creator and lead developer of Gmail on Wikipedia.
   
   If you happen to have FriendFeed too, you can find me here. I haven't fully understand its power yet. So currently it's just an aggregation of my Twitter, blog, Flickr, shared Google Reader article, etc.
   
   
7. The big Bay Area storm is pretty much over now. Not too many bad news on our end and we never lost power for too long, lucky us! However, we do have good news. If you've been to our house, you'll know that since the heat wave few years back in CA, our front entrance's door frame has been giving our arms a workout every time we open or close it. The strong winds during the storm must've knocked the house around so much that the door frame shifted and we now have our easy-to-open normal door back. Zillow, please take note of that.
   
   
8. Even before Macworld starts next week, Apple announced a new Mac® Pro with eight processor cores and stole the spotlight right from CES. If you like geeky stats and want to spend loads of cash, head on over to the Apple.com and easily spend $3,000+ with a few clicks.
   
   According to the official press release “The new Mac Pro is the fastest Mac we’ve ever made,” said Philip Schiller. O Rly? Good thing he cleared that up for all of us, @ejacqui of Ars Technica (also a fellow Boilermaker) appreciates those insights.
   
   
9. Anyone else going to this parteeeee on Monday night, I'll be there. The word is that FSJ is going to be there too.
   
   
   
10. Finally, I leave you with a comical video of "Bill Gates's Last Day at MS" as part of the CES keynote. IMHO, it's a pretty funny and got some big faces, Bono, Jay-Z, Clooney, Spielberg, Clinton, Obama, etc. If you've got 7 minutes, worth watching.
    

Until next time...