Kent J. Chen's WebLog

The world cup is finally over so it’s time for me to back to work, mainly spiritually. But before I do and let it go, I have to get all my own feelings about this most popular event out first with my own top 5s.

Top 5 my favorite teams

1. Spain – what can I say? It’s simply the best team on earth.
2. Germany – a team that represents the future.
3. Argentina – no one knows Football better than Maradona.
4. Uruguay – all because of Forlan and Suarez. A team surprised me the most.

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This is amazing. Guess how much it cost for taking this amazing picture of earth from the sky?

£500! That’s all it cost. Who needs a space shuttle anymore for having amazing pictures of earth captured? A British genius used a standard Canon point-and-shoot camera which is taped to a helium balloon and a location device, and float into the sky. And here is how exactly it worked.

Again, that’s amazing. See more details how he archived here.

If you are like me who didn’t know a thing about curling and just got into it during the latest Winter Olympics 2010, held in Vancouver, this awesome graphic produced by Ciaran Hughes definitely explains this game in great detail. You should check it out.

And if you still haven’t looked this game you should start now. This game is tough and fun to watch too. Not only does it game require a very good skill to slide the stone, but it also needs a lot of athletes’ brain and intelligent as well.…

Sammy (my 5-year-old daughter) and I were in the superstore last night. The TV in the store usually plays the kids movie most of the time. But it was playing MJ’s latest movie, This is It, yesterday. It was fun to watch actually, so I called up Sammy since she’s quite crazy about dancing lately.

Me: Hey, Sammy. Look, that’s Michael Jackson, the king of the pop, dancing in the TV. Watch.

Sammy: Oh, let me see, let me see…hmmm…but he doesn’t have the crown.

…2 minutes later,

Sammy: Dad, can we leave now? I…

A friend of mine forwarded an email to me this morning with this cute picture and the nice quote in it, which made me laugh pretty hard. Thought to share it out with all of you who come across this site.

Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you smile.

Thanks for visiting and hope you enjoy.

I am not a fan of auto-response. In fact, I hate to use it for a few reasons, one of which is I am telling spamers that I am real. But this really makes me to use it now, or even more.

Hi – thank you for emailing me.

When your email arrived, I was doing one of the following: celebrating
Christmas with my family, bringing in the New Year with friends,
getting married to my favourite person in the world, flying across the
planet, navigating the Indian transport system, riding a camel around
the Arabian

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Jeff Atwood originally posted a question on the new launched Super User asking what your favorite harmless computer practical joke is, which turned out getting almost 200 creative answers as of now. When I say creative, they are indeed creative, full of imagination crazy jokes that are totally harmless but would make you laugh to death.

Prank #1

At work we once put on someones unattended laptop computer:

Outlook Rule that went something like this:

when receive email with subject ‘duh’

• delete email

• launch the calculator

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I was going through my feeds on my iPhone during the lunch at my favorite cafeteria downstairs. As soon as I read Why The iPhone Is Revolutionary: Leaf Trombone Edition (AAPL) and watched this YouTube, I couldn’t help but headed over to App Store and coughed up $0.99 for it. And I am hooked and addicted, even though I never played Trombone or any kind of this instrument before.

As the world’s first massively-multiplyer musical game, it’s so cool that you can

BLOW into your iPhone and slide your finger

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This is so funny that I feel it’s not enough only doing a tweet, but worth a post as well. You definitely should check this one out if you have no idea what the heck they wrote on the birthday cake. The only good thing is, Outlook didn’t mess up the lady’s name.

See the full original story here from digital inspiration.

I heard this news from Mike DiPetrillo who works for VMware and was shocked to death that almost made him to quit and find another job if the economy wasn’t that bad.  There was also saying that the new ESX generation will be delayed due to the Microsoft patent violation.

Today, Microsoft announced that it will buy VMware for $2.5 Billion in a combined stock and cash transaction. This news really came as a shock to me. I was here when EMC bought us and was shocked then. Over time it grew on me and now I

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