My Emails This Week At A Glance

Hei Man sparked off an interesting thought in my today: What if I plot all my emails into a graph? How much email do I get, and where are they coming from? So with Excel 2010 and a whole bunch of Gmail search syntaxes (I couldn’t find any applications to do the statistics automatically), I’ve generated some statistics and plotted some graphs for all my emails from last Friday to yesterday. That’s 7 days of my emails!

Note that numbers are based on number of conversations, not the exact number of emails.

Break down of my Inbox

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Steve Jobs shares Apple’s Core Value

I came across this video on Gizmodo where Steve Jobs was talking to his employees shortly after he returned, and it really spoke to me. The phrase that really inspired me was this:

“Apple at the core, its core value, is that we believe that people with passion can change the world for the better.”

That’s one of the things I hope Tech65.org will one day show people, that if you are passionate enough about something, you can change the world for the better.

So discover what you’re passionate about, because Love does indeed make the world go round. If you can harness your love for something, you can move the world, and I believe that we are all planted with unique giftings and desires so that we can play a part in making the world a better place in every unique way.

Shalom.

What can US$199 do for your city?

This was a video our team submitted for the WOMWorld Nokia E72 Challenge. What can US$199 do for your city? The song was “New Beginning” from the latest album by Starfish Stories, a CC band.

Unboxing the Kinder Joy

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I got this as a prize for an LTB class activity that my team won. I’ve never actually seen it before. Wonder what happened to the kinder surprise.

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HP Future Is – bloggers building gadget of the future

I’m at the HP Future Is event. The bloggers are now attempting to build a gadget of the future! *this is a test post*

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Testing new content sharing solution

One thing I’ve always wanted to do was to be able to share cool sightings of technology in Singapore with people. Twitpic really helped but then the photos would not be in one single location and attached only to a single tweet. Now I’m trying posterous along with the iPhone app!

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My Threadless Shirts Have Arrived!! (HD Video)

My first threadless shirts have arrived! I bought these two shirts during the 24 hour free shipping (international) promotion over at Threadless.com and waited patiently for close to three months before they arrived. I actually got a little (just a little) concerned when Jun Kit got his less than a week after he ordered his, but trusted God that they’ll arrive safely in any case.

I bought the Geek shirt and the AV shirt (they’re actually both geeky shirts, I know) cos I’m proud to be a geek! :P

My Social Graph

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This is my social graph, generated using Nexus on Facebook. I decided to try it out after reading Kevin’s post about how relationships on the internet tend to be clustered more by geography than shared interests, but I realised it was different for me. Mine tend to be clustered by my different “lives” or associations. I guess that’s probably due to the fact that unlike Kevin, most of my friends are in Singapore.

What does your social graph look like?

A sneak peak at Gear65 #9

I actually managed to finish editting Episode 9 of Gear65 already, but since there’s still three more days before it’s up (Gear65 is usually up every Thursday, though last week I was late by a day…), I decided to give you guys a sneak peak of the episode by showing you a video clip we filmed during our recording.

Be sure to check out Gear65 this Thursday!

When a prosumer camera meets a pro photographer (Photo)

Taken on a Samsung WB500 in the Dual IS mode

Taken on a Samsung WB500 in the Dual IS mode

I don’t usually post single photos on this blog, but I had to share this one with you guys. Like I mentioned, I’m now reviewing the Samsung WB500 for Gear65. It so happens that I met Willy Foo, Chief Photographer of LiveStudios.sg at today’s Linksys by Cisco’s Media Hub launch event. I, of course, had to let him play with the camera and ask about his thoughts on it, and I didn’t regret the decision one bit. I mean, who better to learn about a camera than the expert himself?

He showed off how good the Dual Image Stabiliser mode on the camera was by taking this amazing shot! When a prosumer camera meets a pro photographer, this is what you get!

So what do we think about the camera so far? Well, you’ll just have to stay tuned for next week’s Gear65 on Tech65.org to find out for yourself! :P