YQ writes about most things tech

I was surfing around tumblr and I found The Verge's tumblr. 

I've been wondering for sometime how a blog can cross post in tumblr and I think I found the best example.

While watching the remake of A-Team on TV while on holiday (I do not have a TV at home), I realized that my love for memes started waaaay back with Mr T.

IT was around the early 2000s and I didn't have internet connection at home while I was in high school so I surfed at Internet stations or at the library.

I don't remember how I stumbled upon Mr T vs Everything. But whenever I surf and I have exhausted things to read up on (Wikipedia didn't even exist then), I would go in search of the funny comic strips.

Here a sample of Mr T vs Titanic.

Till today, I find Internet memes funny. I even subscribed to almost all of the Cheezburger sites' RSS.

Memes forever!

 

I'm in red.

I had been using this transparent mouse since year 1 of univeristy.

It was 6-years-old plus when I dropped it on the floor and the flap that joins the clicking to the inside IC fell off and disappeared.

I wrapped its cord around itself and tossed it into the bin.

Good bye mouse.

I caught an unfortunately bad case of travel bug from a (now-ex) colleague. I don't know how I am able to cure this illness except to travel more and more and more.

I love all the chores of preparing for a trip: Buying airtickets/bus tickets, booking hotels, reading tavel guides for cool sites, packing my luggage. Unfortunately, I do not like any of the chores of coming back from a trip: packing for return trip, rushing for return flight/bus, unpacking.

While I love to travel and research about my next destination, I am not very good at keeping all the relevant data in in one place. Here comes TripIt to help with this part of the journey.

I admit that I signed up for an account only because it can auto-post (brag) about my upcoming trips on my social networks. 

I keyed in my travel details into the my member account and felt awfully proud when I saw all my future trips presented in a page. (Ha! One trip a month!)

However, soon the novelty wore off, I got bored and left it alone.

It wasn't until much later that I discovered that I could automatically forward my flight ticket to an e-mail and it will turn the information into a nice itinerary.

I also found out that it is very useful for longer trips where you have many different hotels or transportation that you will be using. I gave all the details of my 10-day Japan trip to the site and it churned out a nice itinerary.

I like it very much! Now to find an app that can help me unpack my suitcase.

 

I signed up for a Weibo account yesterday. (weibo.com/okbandaid)

Although I am very proud of my Chinese language skills, as well as my tech skills, I cannot figure out how I can make my migroblogging account public!

What is the use of a blog which no one can see without signing up for an account?

I have been trying out Sina Weibo's iPhone app. I must say it is more delighful than twitter's or even tweetdeck.

You can upload photos, add emoticons, state your location, add hastag etc (everything regular apps have but in a prettier way).

I went on a blind date last week. Fortunately, things did not turn out too well in the end.
However, before the meetup, I was very tempted to ask Mr Blind Date for a screenshot of the first page of his phone. I didn't ask in the end because I was already acting not too normally and didn't want to freak him out more than that.
I'm very curious because our phones are very personal and the first page to greet you should be the one with the apps that you like to be able to access quickly (but not as quick as Quick Access apps).
Here is my first screen. I try leaving an empty space at the bottom because I swipe there most often. Aside from games, I use Instagram the most and love to upload my food to Foodspotting.

You might not know this but I give names to my tech products. It started with my desktop PC which I decided to name "Lucy", after a Beatles song that got stuck in my head.
Since then, I've continued giving my tech stuff names (inspired by Beatles' songs.) There's Rita my camera and Lady Madonna my iPhone.
On Saturday, I went shopping for a netbook and picked up a pink little thing. I've decided to name her (yes, it's a she.) Yesterday.

I love Internet banking. I love how I'm able to see how much money I have in my accounts (that's a topic for another day) down to the last cent.

But, I am still not as comfortable with money transfer to other people's account on Internet banking. It just seems a bit more scary than sending money from the ATM.

Another reason I never did money transfer to third-party accounts is that the process is so tedious. Just telliing the bank that I want to send money over means I need to give it: the person's bank account number, bank code (what?!) and some other information.

One night, I really had to send money over so I sat in front of my computer with my online banking token ready.

I hit the "transfer to third party" link and was sent to a page with small print. I read and clicked the link but was sent back.

I finally realized that I needed to sign up my phone for alerts before I could use the service, so I clicked on a link and filled up the form.

Tragedy struck.

But it resulted in this comic.

Just downloaded the Posterous iPhone app. Updating on the go is possible! Hurray.