February 28, 2007
Fair & Lovely skin whitening agent + CSR angle?
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January 18, 2007
Not sure how you found this post... but...
My new blog is available at: http://www.yakshaving.net
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January 16, 2007
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January 15, 2007
MT's gotta go. Wordpress coming soon!
My little brother announced that he might have an interest in starting a blog. Not a random pre-teen myspace page or anything (i'd lynch him if he did any such thing)... but he really likes writing. So he did the research and he says he wants to start a wordpress blog.
Only one problem. I use Movable Type. And, my host only allows one mysql host (doat)... and call me a purist, but I don't want to clog up the one database with more than one CMS running with the same database.
I gave it some more thought, and I decided... MT's gotta go. Its not like I am married to this template (I didn't even spend much time putting this template together.
So, over the next month or so, I should be swithcing to Wordpress altogether and importing all my content from MT. I think it should be pretty easy, there's plenty of documentation out there. The only thing I think might be a little annoying is moving all my stuff over from the Media Manager plugin on MT to some comparable WP plugin. Which I'm sure I'll end up finding a shortcut for.
Sorry MT... but your time has come. You've been a good friend... except for the random rebuild errors... and the lack of a BUILT IN wysiwyg editor.... and the SPAM blocking..... OK maybe you weren't that great after all, but you served me well, daggone-it.
I'm working on the new look of YakShaving now, complete with a dancing Jesus animated gif. Well, maybe not that.
January 14, 2007
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January 13, 2007
I'm flaccid with rage about American pop culture
As most of my friends know, I don't watch television. It's not that I'm trying to be pretentious, but its because most of the stuff on the TV makes me flaccid with rage.
When I occassionally hit the gym for a quick workout, I am unfortunately exposed, unknowingly to the depths of the pop culture underworld, grappling to find meaning in the vile detritus that makes up contemporary media.
Today, some pubescent girl next to me was on the elliptical, happily bouncing up and down watching a show called "My Super Sweet 16" on MTV. Its a show about the myspace generation and their wild coming-of-age parties... what the parents are thinking to throw their kids these sorts of parties, I have no conception.
My initial reaction to the show was OMGWTF. My second response to the show was OMGWTF, No wonder the United States is losing whatever superiority it ever had in producing a workforce capable of competing globally. Lou Dobbs, shut up about outsourcing already, and open your eyes to what is shaping our nation's youth. Companies are going to go where the talent is.. and our MTV culture is NOT even making the slightest attempt at trying to solve the problem.
Though I'm not a raging "WorldIsFlat-ist"-- I have a fair number of contentions with Friedman's hypotheses -- I did like one quote from his book.... "In China, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America, Britney Spears is Britney Spears."
C'mon Hollywood. Is it REALLY THAT difficult to make shows that enrich humanity, to inspire our teens to boldly endeavor to solve contemporary social ills? It's not as if we're lacking problems to solve, there are plenty going around. Don't talk to me about the Discovery Channel or the History Channel or TLC... There hasn't been a single time I've walked into the gym and any of those channels have been on. People have an aversion to learning or enriching their lives, and its because school has taught them that learning is boring. What if tomorrow, MTV were to undertake a bold new campaign to make their shows more meaningful?
I can hardly imagine what it must have been a child growing up during Kennedy's time- when he expressed his enthusiasm for putting a man on the moon. His speech inspired decades of creativity, imagination, and made people work toward something. Even those who weren't somehow involved in the space race were affected positively. They didn't have shows like "My super sweet 16" back then.
::Sigh:: Alright, my rant is done, for now.
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January 11, 2007
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January 10, 2007
Back in the saddle
Well, the fabulous 3 week holiday break comes to a close, and I'm reminded again of reality as I stepped out of the subway here in Chicago, where it is easily 25 degrees colder than it was in Philadelphia.
Global warming and its effects are abominable, but I could definitely get used to El Nino if it gives me winters that are 60-70 degrees, and I can run outside in shorts and a t-shirt (As I did often over the past few weeks).
I get this looming sense that my course load this semester is going to be uber-demanding, on top of the continual side projects I'm working on. I hope I can make more time to blog, but in the meantime, I hope you're enjoying my daily del.icio.us links that are posting at midnight.
This term, I'm taking my second round of Foundation courses and an accounting course. Accounting. Blah.
