If you have a phone with camera, you don’t need to read this any further. This is more for users with blackberries (because I own a Blackberry Curve).

Facebook has a rule that you cannot upload mobile pics by emails, only from your phone but alas, blackberries can send emails. So, if you have been trying to send pics from your blackberry, Facebook will send you a confirmation code each time. Which eventually becomes annoying.

To prevent from getting confirmation codes over and over, you need to use MMS feature on your blackberry and send pics through that. Voila! no more confirmation codes! this is because the address comes in the form of phone number or phone number directory, not email address, which Facebook obviously likes better. Happy uploading. :-)

Learned something new. 10 questions you don’t need to worry about answering.

10 illegal job interview questions

Oh, I dig their short films.
Pixar Short Films Collection – Volume 1 (2004)

Been a while since you’ve been in college? have a look. @ University of Missouri

Not exactly sure what happened but it appears that the bug has been lifted off. I’m back into blogging again and I hope it will be one long streak before I break it off again later. My goal is simple: make information a bit more useful, especially on Deaf topics and I’m also trying to write more reviews.

Less talk, more actions.

Wanted to pass this along: http://www.csun.edu/~sp20558/dis/deaf.html

Rarely is a person completely deaf, and a hearing loss could fall anywhere along the continuum from totally deaf to hearing. The amount of usable (or residual) hearing varies greatly from person to person. Depending upon the type of loss, the person may or may not benefit from the amplification that a hearing aid provides. Hearing aids only amplify sound, they do not make sound clearer. The severity of a person’s hearing loss could be different at various frequencies. Therefore, ability to hear different voices will vary depending on a number of factors, including the pitch of the voice. Also, it is important to note that a person’s ability to hear a voice is different than the ability to discriminate between sounds and to understand speech.

The life activity most affected by hearing loss is communication. Colleagues and friends must be versatile in finding an effective communication method. Pen and paper are handy communication devices in some situations.

Though not effective for all people who are hearing impaired, knowing some sign language and fingerspelling is helpful. Learn some elementary or survival signs from colleagues, coworkers, or managers who are deaf or hard of hearing.

People who are deaf or hard of hearing, like people who are hearing, have different education levels. Knowledge of English grammar, syntax, and spelling varies from individual to individual. A person who uses American Sign Language (ASL) as their primary language of communication may or may not be proficient in using standard English. For the most part, English is an oral/aural language designed to be spoken and heard. Therefore, it is quite challenging to learn and understand English when you can not hear, especially when it varies so greatly from the structure and syntax of ASL. The person who is not proficient in English is not stupid or illiterate; he or she just uses a different language to communicate.

Not all hearing impaired people are good lip readers and lip reading skill has no correlation to a person¹s intelligence. Even good lip readers may miss many words. Keep in mind that only 25-30% of spoken English can be lip read. Not all deaf people know how to speak sign language, or choose to use sign language interpreters. Some prefer to communicate through lip reading and some prefer sign language.

The need for an interpreter depends on the situation and the people involved. Interpreters can be described as a communication link. A telephone, for example, is a communication link; it does not add information or alter the content of the message.

Deafness does not, in itself, affect intelligence.

Blake and I made a goal to sell something everday, at least one thing or more.

Here’s my first one: Linksys Cable Modem

I see the dancer spin clock-wise so I guess I’m right brain.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses logic detail oriented facts rule words and language present and past math and science can comprehend knowing acknowledges order/pattern perception knows object name reality based forms strategies practical safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses feeling “big picture” oriented imagination rules symbols and images present and future philosophy & religion can “get it” (i.e. meaning) believes appreciates spatial perception knows object function fantasy based presents possibilities impetuous risk taking

Lately, I’ve been thinking about money so I looked around for quotes to gain some perspectives on money.

The real measure of your wealth is how much you’d be worth if you lost all your money. ~Author Unknown

I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money. ~Pablo Picasso

Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life. ~Michael Leboeuf

Money is a headache, and money is the cure. ~Everett Mámor

Life shouldn’t be printed on dollar bills. ~Clifford Odets

Business is the art of extracting money from another man’s pocket without resorting to violence. ~Max Amsterdam

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. ~Voltaire

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband. ~H.L. Mencken

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. ~Oscar Wilde

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings. ~Carl Sandburg

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. ~Aristotle Onassis (haha!)

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage. ~Doug Larson

Bill Clinton is one of my favorite presidents next to Abraham Lincoln who was the greatest president ever and Jack F. Kennedy, the charmistic president.

President Clinton has earned $30,975,598 in 192 paid speeches from Feb. 5, 2001, to Dec. 13, 2005.

Saw this website.  This is a cool/good idea. 

Five.sentenc.es

The Problem

E-mail takes too long to respond to, resulting in continuous inbox overflow for those who receive a lot of it.

The Solution

Treat all email responses like SMS text messages, using a set number of letters per response. Since it’s too hard to count letters, we count sentences instead.

five.sentenc.es is a personal policy that all email responses regardless of recipient or subject will be five sentences or less. It’s that simple.

Ha, saw this on Facebook; thought I’d post in here.

You know you’re an ASL Interpreter when/if…

…You find yourself talking in ASL gloss

…You have a sidekick/blackberry/trio/pager with you 24/7

…You know who Peter Cook, Byron Yoder, Betty Colonomos, and Keith Wann are

…You know what “cha” and “pah” mean

…Your wardrobe consists of solid, plain colors… no patterns, no frills

…You find yourself distracted by and annoyed with “visual noise”

…You can have an entire conversation without saying a word or using a sign… it’s all on your face

…You find that none of your jokes make sense to anyone else but fellow interpreters or d/Deaf people

…You know the cultural difference between deaf and Deaf.

…all the games you play are vocabulary builders or word games (ie: Boggle, Scrabble, Crosswords, Upwords, Dictionary Dabble, etc.)

…You find yourself unexplainably attracted to hands

…there are no large floral centerpieces on your kitchen/coffee table(s)

…You wake yourself up while signing in your sleep

…Your spelling is impeccable

…Your closed captioning is always on

…You know the difference between a nod of assent or comprehension and “the nod”

…You’ve ever been mistaken for a Deaf person by a Deaf person

…You have a VRS # in your phone

…You accidently/automatically say “go ahead” in regular phone conversations

…You’ve ever had a conversation with someone and were signing unconsciously (until they brought it to your attention)

…You own a pair of white gloves

…Speaking about yourself third person is in no way weird, creepy, or unusual to you anymore

…You’re used to being stared at

…You’ve ever lost your name and identity to become, quite simply, “the interpreter”

…You can’t sit and listen to a lecture/sermon/speech anymore without continually asking yourself, “How would I interpret that?”

…You have ever flung your glasses off your face while signing, and wait for a natural pause before picking them up

…You have spent all day talking/singing about something you don’t understand or know anything about… like calculus, or electrical wiring, or __(fill in the blank)__

…You’ve ever been referred to as “the person in the corner of the TV screen”

Saw this from Tayler’s posted items in his facebook.

Ha, true.

My friend Blake was having this problem when his powerbook g4 starts up, too many winders open in Finder, causing the powerbook to freeze up. He was able to open up the system preferences and create a new account, then log into the new account. However, he cannot copy files in his account due to permissions.

So last night, we were working on this issue and googling around for a solution. Indeed there was. If you have this same problem when too many windows are opened when Finder starts up, you need to trash your Finder preference file, which is located at
/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist.

Here are the instructions. Taken from theXlab.com.

Delete Finder preferences using Finder

1. Open a Finder window and navigate to Home > Library > Preferences folder.
2. Trash the file com.apple.finder.plist
3. If you are using Mac OS X 10.3 or later, also trash the Finder Sidebar preferences file, com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
4. Perform one of the following tasks:
1. Log out, then in again.
2. Relaunch the Finder by choosing Force Quit from the Apple menu, selecting Finder, then clicking the Relaunch button.
5. Empty the Trash.

Delete Finder preferences using Terminal

If you cannot launch Finder, you can delete its preferences using Terminal.

1. Launch Terminal, located in the Applications > Utilities folder.
2. Delete the primary Finder preferences file:
3. At the Terminal prompt, type the following command exactly as written
4. rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
5. Press Return.

1. If you are using Mac OS X 10.3 or later, delete the preferences for the Finder Sidebar:
2. At the Terminal prompt, type the following command exactly as written:
3. rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
4. Press Return.
5. Perform one of the following tasks:
6 Log out, then in again.
7. Relaunch the Finder by choosing Force Quit from the Apple menu, selecting Finder, then clicking the Relaunch button.
8. Empty the Trash.

Lately, Blake and I have been going to coffee shops with free wireless to do our work in starting a new business.

I decided to google for more free wireless spots around Fremont. Here it is.

Mission Coffee Roasting Company – 151 Washington Blvd.
The Huddle Bar – 5152 Mowry Ave – 510-794-8590
Sushi Tango – 4193 Cushing Pkwy – 510-440-1613
Suju’s Coffee and Tea – 3602 Thornton Avenue – (510) 742-8880
Panera Bread – 43317 Christy Street and 2650 Mowry Avenue
Tapioca Express – 43421 Christy St – (510) 226-9200
Chaat Cafe – 46465 Mission Blvd.
Depot Cafe – Fremont Amtrak Station
McDonald’s – 40708 Grimmer Blvd – 510-490-0929
Backstage hair salon – Ohlone Village, 1542 Washington Blvd.
LaQuinta Inn – 46200 Landing Parkway – 510 445 0808
Good Nite Inn – 4135 Cushing Pkwy – 510-656-9307
Coffee Plus – 4165 Cushing Pkwy, Fremont, CA 94538 USA
Covent Garden Savories – 1596 Washington Blvd, Fremont, CA 94539 USA
Depot Cafe – 37260 Fremont Blvd, Fremont, CA 94536 USA
Fremont Main Public Library – 2400 Stevenson Blvd, Fremont, CA 94538 USA
Govindarajan VS – 34077 Paseo Padre Pkwy, Fremont, CA 94555 USA
Kets Kaffe – 39124 Fremont Hub, Fremont, CA 94536 USA
Lee’s Sanwiches – 5201 Mowry Ave, Fremont, CA 94538 USA
Mission Coffee Roasting Company – 151 Washington Blvd, Fremont, CA 94539 USA
Panera Bread – 43317 Christy St, Fremont, CA 94538 USA

Happy surfing. :-)

*I’ll come back and edit this post to include a link to Google Maps so you can easily locate them.