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Crawfish, Crawfish, more Crawfish!

Almost every weekend, my family always have a cookout. This week we are doing it at my uncle’s house. TJ (my uncle) suggested we do crawfish this time, and off we did. I honestly never have boil crawfish before, so this is the first time. The weather was so nice (cloudy and cool), we decided [...]

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Feedburner sold! Acquired by Google

Well, it was previously reported by Sam Sethi that Google is trying to acquired Feedburner, and today the deal has been confirmed. Google spend $100 millions on this acquisition and I personally think it’s one of the best purchase Google made. Not much information other than this being reported as everything is sealed until the [...]

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Big Wave of Traffic at SlashGear – Nice but deadly

As I previously posted, SlashGear got digged again. Usually Digg will brings us around 15-20k visits on entry that goes into popular pool. However, yesterday was a different one. We did not only get dugg, but also increases in linked in traffic from other blogs. As a result, we have a big traffic increase from [...]

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What a day – Litespeed Tech Support and The Planet saved the day

One of our story in SlashGear was dugg and it send a lot of readers to SlashGear for the whole day as it made the top 10 story of the day in Digg’s site. We weren’t entirely down, but some users are experiencing slow down on the site. Aside from http, everything feels like normal. [...]

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NBA Playoffs : Four Team Left – Who will you pick?

Phoenix is out, and NBA Playoffs has reached Semi Finals. I think Spurs will take the Western Conf Finals series, and Detroit will take on the East. Cleveland has played great, but Lebron still needs to be able to get his teammates involved and without that, Detroit will definitely take over the games. Phoenix vs [...]

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WordPress 2.2 “Getz” is Out!

Named after a tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, WordPress 2.2 is finally released. After some delay, the 2.2 packed in some quite interesting new features. WordPress Widgets allow you to easily rearrange and customize areas of your weblog (usually sidebars) with drag-and-drop simplicity. This functionality was originally available as a plugin Widgets are now included by [...]

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SlashGear Forum and MYiPhone Forum Tweaking

I’ve been tweaking the forums on SlashGear and MYiPhone. I can finally say the forums are done for now. I’m going to work on more things on the back end but front ends part are pretty much done. If you have any suggestions please contact me on the forum, or here. I also rearrage forum [...]

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Intresting Job Offer, But I think I’ll Pass

I received a call this morning from a consulting firm in Dallas. Apparently I’ve been under their radar for a year and I was pretty flattered with the offer and opportunities they give me. The job was to head research and development of statistical application and managing 24 programmers. However I turned down their offer [...]

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