Kent J. Chen's WebLog

a personal journal by an addictive geek

Stuff in General

[Google Reader] added a new feature that allows you to track changes to any website

Posted in Stuff in General, Tips & Tricks on January 27th, 2010 by Kent

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Most of the websites I follow have the RSS feeds that make me quite easy to subscribe but every so often there are sites and pages I came across that just don’t have the feeds for me to easily follow up. I would have to bookmark them in my Google Bookmark and remember to come back and check…

Virtualization Faceoff Poster free to download

Posted in Stuff in General on December 14th, 2009 by Kent

image Hyper-V or vSphere? For virtualization fans (me included) who are always wondering who’s better, here is a head-to-head unbiased mapping of Microsoft and VMware virtualization solutions offered by WindowsITPro, a free poster for you to download.

It’s a nice poster that provides a single source for IT decision makers and technologists to compare the two leading virtualization solutions providers.…

Daily Reading: CIO: I would never talk to my CEO about the cloud

Posted in Stuff in General on November 10th, 2009 by Kent

Quote of the day: what makes you write well

Posted in Stuff in General on November 7th, 2009 by Kent

Quote shared by CopyBlogger, about the relationship between any content creator and the people they hope to connect with:

When talented people write badly it’s generally for one of two reasons:

Either they’re blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove or they’re driven by an emotion they must express.

When talented people write well, it

Prince of Persia is now on Movie

Posted in Stuff in General on November 6th, 2009 by Kent

image Finally, it’s done. Being a long time fan of this glorious game, I have no doubt that this will be one of those movies that I am sure I won’t miss. Not sure if there will be episode II, III, or more but let’s just see how it goes this one first.

It was back to 1990 or 1991…

Twitter ditched TinyURL for bit.ly for a reason

Posted in Internet, Stuff in General on November 5th, 2009 by Kent

Twitter ditched TinyURL for bit.ly as its default URL shortening provider a few months back, which basically put TinyURL to a very difficult position to survive and throw tr.im out of the business. I had been wondering why Twitter made the change because all in all, it’s just a service that shortens the URL and redirect…

My motivation just got tripled

Posted in Stuff in General on October 11th, 2009 by Kent

With the arrival of the twin girls on Monday Oct 5, 2009, I am now officially a father to 3 lovely girls, Samantha, Arianna, and Brianna.

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My motivation of doing anything just got promoted triple times, which left me no time doing things that are wasting time, e.g. writing this post. :)

Join the Microsoft WebsiteSpark program

Posted in Stuff in General on September 26th, 2009 by Kent

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If you are a web professional designer or developer in a small firm that has less than 10 employees and you are already using Microsoft technology, you definitely need to check this new program Microsoft just announced, called Microsoft WebsiteSpark. It’s a nice program that offers Microsoft web development software at no cost, including

    Dial 1-800-GOOG-411 from any phone for free 411 service

    Posted in Stuff in General on September 1st, 2009 by Kent

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    Not sure exactly when, but just noticed that Google has this new 411 service that you can use for free, though it’s only available in US and Canada, and for business listing only at the moment.

    Simply, you can just follow the 4 steps shown in the picture above and GOOG-411 will connect you with the business you…

    10 Tips for being a great boss

    Posted in Stuff in General on August 15th, 2009 by Kent

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    Here are the 10 tips from 10 things over on TechRepublic, which you may find useful if being a boss is one of your career goal. Some of them may be different from the traditional way of being a leader but you may find that might be the way that’s should be.…