Vinh Pham

Here is an interesting article on NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15721992&ft=1&f=1001.

Basically, it says if you want to lose weight, simply try shaking it away for 15 minutes a day. Damn, don’t you wish you would have thought of that early? Seriously, anyone who can prove that sitting on a vibrating Lazy-Z-Boy would help you lose weight will probably win a Nobel Prize, not to mention untold fame and admiration from countless people around the world.

So, let me be the first to say it. If you want to lose weight: Screw the gym, ditch the pills, just sit your lazy ass down on a vibrating massage chair for 15 minutes a day ( or 30 minutes if you are really ambitious ), and you will be lean and mean in no time! Easiest diet in the world.

Ok, so I heard about this on KVIE, and it goes beyond the point of ridiculous.

In some areas of China, they sprayed so much pesticides, they killed all the bees. Now there ain’t no bees to left to pollinate their trees, so they have to HAND pollinate.

Imagine hundreds of Chinese people with little feather brushes, climbing up on trees and smearing each flower with pollen. Apparently each person can do about 30 trees a day, bees can do about 3000 trees a day ( I think that the correct number - Maybe higher).

Anyways, I don’t know about you, but this is just ridiculous….

This is true for jQuery, and maybe true for JavaScript in general.

If you have an input field that is disabled:

<input type="text" name="example" value="example" disabled="disabled">

You cannot attach / bind any events to it ( ie. onClick, onSumbit, etc.. ).

In order to work with those disabled fields, you have to make a separate trigger that is NOT disabled, to enable those fields before they are accessible.

If someone knows otherwise, please let me know.

After watching the CNN series called “Planet in Peril”, I have to rethink the morals of my investment practices. Although I generally regard CNN as brain dead, mass media, bullshit, I do find this series very intriguing. Maybe they are finally doing something right???

But anyways. After what they show me about China and how Chinese industries are destroying the environment, I feel that I have to make a conscious choice to put my money where my mouth is. I have always been an advocate of living environmentally friendly, but if I continue investing in companies that are destroying the environment, I am being a complete hypocrite.

I originally chose to invest in these companies because I thought that if I made good money investing in these companies, I can take that money and help protect the environment. However, if I continue supporting these companies, by the time I have enough money to help protect the environment, there will be no environment left to protect.

So, I have decided that now I will invest in renewable energy and technology. I will also try to seek out companies that are active in protecting the environment and invest in those. Even if I don’t make good money investing in these companies, I will just consider it my donation to help protect the earth.

When the “working” portion of my life is over, I dream of green pastures, pine forests, soft seashores, and a large porch that opens up to the heavens.

I am not sure how many people actually get to end their life in such wonderful places, but all I know is, there better be a place out there reserved for me and my lady, cus I ain’t leaving this earth on nothing less.

And you know, I wouldn’t be one of those people who tries to do stuff in their retirement years. Like traveling, taking up odd hobbies, embarking on ambitious building projects, or trying to have a second career.

Nope, not me. I am just going to sit firmly on my ass and stare long out to the green fields. I’ll watch the clouds move by above me, the butterflies as they dance around, and I’ll be sure to breathe extra deep every time a nice breeze blows by.

Maybe once in a while, I’ll put the canoe in the water and test the line for some fresh fish. Or, maybe, I’ll just lay there and stare up at the sky, letting the water carry me wherever it wish….

been sick since friday.
lost a ton of money on buying stocks!
i have so much work i cant finish it all.
watching too much cnbc
wondering why i feel like i need a vacation, when all i do is sit at home all day.

Its 2am and I just discovered something abnormal in CSS.

If you are using the text-indent trick to hide text in your CSS, you must set the text-align value to LEFT.

If it is set to text-align: right it will not work.

It works in firefox, but not in IE or Opera. This is strange, but it works!

This info maybe useful to someone switching from the Fahrner Image Replacement, or simply having issues with text-indent in CSS and Internet Explorer.

Damnnit!!!

After about three weeks of using Windows Vista, my computer has crashed about 10 times already. By crash, I mean I had to hard boot the damn thing.

Besides that, Windows Explorer has crashed about 10 times too. This kinda stuff never happened in Windows XP. How is this possible? How can Microsoft release a new product that blows ass like this.

I am not one of those quick to judge people. I actually gave Vista a good trial. So far, my experience has been terrible. What’s worse is that I am actually running a legal copy of this thing!