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Sequoia issues warning of secular bear market (aka it is better to hold t-bills)

October 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

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OMG was I hacked or is the hard disk just full

September 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Think we were hacked on Tongfamily at 5AM this morning. Found that we were stuck at the home page going to the WP install page. There are many notes about this, but it can happen because of a weak password on your FTP or your Wordpress admin accounts. I have both and have changed all [...]

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Wordpress for iphone rocks

July 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Blogs

There is paradise on earth. In this case wordpress has a blogging client for iPhone. I can blog anywhere now
Just hope it doesn’t crash as much as twinkle does!
Hat tip to john Ludwig for this one.

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iPhone 3G Exchange setup

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments · iPhone

Got it! AT&T dropped shipped it. The least painful way in the US anyway to get it. Lines at Apple store are still 3 hours long. Apple is going to sell 3M in a week at this rate. In any case, things that are unclear are how to setup Exchange. It needs yet another site [...]

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Tweets off to http://twitter.com/richtong

June 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Hey Michelle pointed out the tweets are really distracting. She’s right, most of the twitter stuff is so much like IM, so these will stay on Twitter and you can see in the sidebar. The blog will be for the longer and more archival stuff.

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Places to look for Cleantech (aka Green, Renewables, Conservation, Energy) News

June 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Cleantech Blog
Cleantech Blog does not do all the news all the time. We rely on our friends at CNET, Cleantech Media, Greentech Media, GreenBiz.com, and Earth2Tech

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Essential WordPress 2.5 Plugins

May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Now that the blog is working, somethings to make it easier. Shamus does a good review of plugin’s. Better than just browsing them all…Also trolling http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/browse/popular/ is fun as well.

Essential Plugins for WordPress 2.5 « Shamus Writes
Ozh has fast become one of my favorite plugin developers. He consistently creates plugins that are practical and [...]

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Blog is formatting is broken

May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Something is causing a format problem. I’ve got too many plugins. It looks like it doesn’t display Chinese and some other characters correctly. Narrowed that down to the Textile 2 plugin I was using. Tried Text Control and the same issue. I really need Textile 2 because I use its table feature.

Shamuswrites.com has a [...]

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Zenphoto

April 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Wordpress, Zenphoto

OK, finally flopped Nextgen Gallery for ZenPhoto even though I can’t get the widget to work. But, let’s try integration. First, you should see a Photos button now at the top. You do need a password to see anything though
But to get it to actually integrate into the blog is the trick. First [...]

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