http://www.pikindaguy.com/tien_nguyen Your once in a while dose of mediocre entertainment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:49:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...orting-on-his-capture/ Earlier this week, New York Times reporter David Rohde escaped from a Taliban prison. He had been a Taliban hostage for the last seven months, but the general public had absolutely no clue. In a joint effort by The New York Times and Wikipedia, the story was kept quiet until ... http://www.pikindaguy.com/tien_nguyen/2009/06/28/ny-timeswikipedia-help-save-journalist-by-not-revealing-that-he-was-captured/ I exaggerate only a little bit. http://mashable.com/2009/06/16/facebook-search-2/ Facebook is testing a realtime search engine for users’ news feeds that will challenge Twitter search, the company revealed on its blog today. Say what you will about Twitter, but the Iranian situation has shown that its real time search feature is unmatched in providing live ... http://www.pikindaguy.com/tien_nguyen/2009/06/16/facebook-real-time-search-1-trillion-valuation/ My ability to use my hands is as inconsistent as a certain Los Angeles professional basketball team--one minute I'll be getting putting together Ikea furniture like on one's business, and the next I'll slice my finger open peeling a cucumber with a butter knife. My desire to display my handiness is ... http://www.pikindaguy.com/tien_nguyen/2009/05/27/replacing-the-side-mirror-of-an-explorer/ Obligatory reflection of my one year in San Diego: A year ago I left a safe haven, a home in which I'd lived in for all of my childhood and briefly after finishing college--still being looked after by my parents, "it's 8:10am, aren't you going to wake up for work?", or, ... http://www.pikindaguy.com/tien_nguyen/2009/04/19/one-year/ All within the past couple of days or so, save the Oakland cops situation: Five children reported dead after dad's suicide Gunman Kills 3 Police Officers in Pittsburgh US police hunt for clues after immigrant slays 13 Yahoo Engineer Kills Five Family Members in Murder-Suicide Three police officers killed in Oakland shootings 2 Mass. ... http://www.pikindaguy.com/tien_nguyen/2009/04/04/crazy-times/ http://www.pikindaguy.com/tien_nguyen/2009/03/22/happier-times/ I was defending it for a while, but it truly sucks: http://www.pikindaguy.com/tien_nguyen/2009/03/19/new-facebook-sucks/ Very interesting topic here most of which I agree on.. Why is one greatly shunned more than the other as being a vain, shallow thing? No one "needs" anything more than a $25k car to drive to work in, anything else is mostly excess, and done for the sake of their ego..I'm ... http://www.pikindaguy.com/tien_nguyen/2009/03/19/freakonomics-asks-how-is-getting-cosmetic-surgery-different-from-buying-a-new-car/ Last time we checked in we were ranked #7..but currently, the tides have changed quite dramatically, as seen here: So now it's: V WHO YA GOT? http://www.pikindaguy.com/tien_nguyen/2009/03/16/and-then-there-was-1/ What do they all have in common? (left to right: Bill Gates, former CEO of Microsoft; Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google; Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple) They were all probably beaten up in school, which probably lead to their secludism in which they made friends with the only thing that didn't beat ... http://www.pikindaguy.com/tien_nguyen/2009/03/07/the-three-most-influential-silicon-valley-ers/