age | Jason E. Shao

Bush, Kerry, and voting Independent?

Oct

12

2004

There’s been a lot of heated debate over dishonesty and manipulation of facts after the Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates. In many ways I think the items that are attracting outrage are relatively small, and those more deserving of public scrutiny seem to be getting ignored. For instance, given the overall context of a political debate, ...

Google via SMS

Oct

8

2004

> Google SMS (Short Message Service) > enables you to easily get precise > answers to specialized queries from > your mobile phone or device. Send your > query as a text message and get phone > book listings, dictionary definitions, > product prices and more. Just text. No > links. No web pages. Simply ...

Opened a 529 Plan

Oct

7

2004

Opened a 529 plan for the little one yesterday. Our selection process basically came down to 2 choices: the USAA College Savings Plan (which allows [UPromise][] contributions) and the [NJBEST][] plan which has the advantage of a $1500 scholarship for school in NJ if you contribute enough. Right now the tipping decision for us was ...

Gap Reveals Human Rights Conditions

Oct

4

2004

Fast Company | Gap’s New Look: The See-Through On May 12, Gap Inc. released a report that had jaws dropping in corporate boardrooms and activist corridors across the land. The 40-page “social-responsibility report” details, with unflinching honesty, the problems the $6.5 billion clothing retailer found in the 3,000 factories it contracted to produce clothing for ...

Why I’m a Mac User

Aug

31

2004

[Richard Scoble](http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/) of Microsoft asked: > “Mark: tell me what you can do on a Mac that you can’t do on a PC? > Give me, say, five examples. Here’s your chance to do some great > advertising for Apple. The kind they can’t buy.” While I don’ feel the zealous need to defend my ...