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Embedded Video Support in ePubs

Videos in ePubs? Are you serious? Well, eventually our books will look like the newspapers in Harry Potter movies (MPal, 2010). Just imagine, not just static images to embellish the text, but also the motion pictures and sound of people screaming and yelling in Azkaban. But are we there yet? This is what I found [...]

Simple Recipe for PDF Stitching

How to merge / stitch pdf files together.

VMWare Server 2.0.2 on Ubuntu 9.10

Last night I downloaded the latest VMWare Server from Vmware website, it was version 2.0.2. I needed it because I was trying to experiment with several Open Office server solution, and I need to simulate tiered environment. First attempt to install it in my Kubuntu 9.10 host, running kernel 2.6.31-16-generic-pae didn’t work, VMWare server fails [...]

Better Than Grep: ack

This morning I was thinking about people that I am indebted to, possibly forever. Linus Torvalds is definitely one, not just because of the kernel, but also because he is a good role model. In terms of tools, I am certainly indebted to Joseph H. Allen, for his own editor. I also thought of ‘grep’ [...]

Swoopo is a Scam

TechChrunch has an article about Swoopo saying that it has a Hint of Scam. Well, SHAME ON YOU TECHCHRUNCH!! It doesn’t have a ‘Hint’ of scam, IT IS VERY BLATANT THAT SWOOPO IS A SCAM! I am very saddened to find out about Swoopo today, in light of the other scams that have been going [...]

Better to Say Sorry than to Ask Permission

I’ve read that phrase numerous times from the quips of two Bugzilla systems. Both systems did not cite the original person who coined the phrase, which make me believe that it was entered by the founder of companies to encourage employees to take bold decissions. Once I did consciously decided to do something extraordinarily bold [...]

Bill Gates’s 10 (or 11) rules of life!!!

I saw a post on Twitter about Bill Gates’s 10 rules of life, and I clicked it. I found the list quite good, but the post was a bit vague. It says that the 10 rules were given in a high school event, but it didn’t mention which high school, or when. So I Googled [...]

Pennsylvania Dutch Apple Pie

An award winning recipe of Pennsylvania Dutch Apple Pie

Quote of the day

Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. — John Boswell

Compensation Structure for Early Companies

Just got this from planetvc today. Matt McCall who writes at VC Confidential recently posted a compensation structure for typical early stage companies. Matt stressed out that what he meant with ‘early’ is not start-up at bootstrap phase. At which, salaries are much lower, but equity ownerships are higher. I am a little surprised that [...]

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