Red Theme Green Theme Blue Theme
RSS Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Learning a New Language

tagged , , , , , , , , and

No, I do not mean computer languages like C, Visual Basic or Java, which of course can be easily learned with the hundreds of thousands of programs available on the internet. I am talking about learning a real language, a spoken language like French, Spanish of Chinese.

I used to work for a Japanese outsourcing company as a software developer. Being a non-Japanese, my Japanese colleagues were some of the nicest people I have ever met. They were always very polite and gentle. But the problem with that company was that the owner was a traditional Japanese – does not speak English and pressured (although not required) the staff to learn Japanese (we also learned that he goes to an exclusive and very expensive bar in Japan that still has geishas).

Read the rest of this entry »

Technorati Tags: , , , , , , , , ,
No Comments »

When Enough Easily Exhausts

tagged , , , , and

I can still remember the time my computer had 32 MB of memory and 64 MB of hard disk storage space and I was happy. Later, I had 128 MB of RAM and 4 Gigagabytes of storage space and I was happy until another higher storage came.

Today’s information technology is growing at so fast a pace we can hardly keep up. Now that I have gazillions of all kinds of video and music files, software installers, digital photos and other digital whatnots, I feel like 160 Gigabytes of hard disk is not enough. And I am talking here about personal use storage!

Read the rest of this entry »

Technorati Tags: , , , , ,
No Comments »
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.