I’ve been meaning to use blog.docuverse.com as permanent URL for this blog but lazyness held me hostage until now. So, there you have it. Tata! Posted in General      

The obvious solution (pun intended) to Twitter auth problem is OAuth. As Biz wrote, OAuth won’t prevent hacking but should reverse increasingly common practice of third-party software and services asking for Twitter credentials. However, OAuth is a disruptive change, one that will break existing code and force everyone to change over. In this post, I [...]

I would like to wish all my friends a happy new year. 2009 is looking to be a tough year but I am hoping this year will become a landmark year. Fingers crossed. If I had to make some predictions, I think we’ll finally see non-fluff applications for Twitter, Facebook, iPhone, and other ‘virtual platforms’ this [...]

Not much to be merry about but it’s the tradition so let’s be merry anyway. I tend to like end of the year because I tend to get moody and reflective which usually leads to creative thoughts. Reading I am refreshing my understanding of statistics. While it’s not my favorite part of math, I need to firm [...]

Launch of Facebook Connect is a perfect example of how amazingly forgetful tech media can be. Despite regular appearance of phishing related news, there is no alarm being raised about glaring phishing vulnerability in Facebook Connect, just the usual armchair-general’s strategy bravos and hypes. First, there is zero phishing protection in Facebook Connect as it is [...]

I haven’t had much mindshare to blogging lately but I feel that some updates are owed so here we go. Investing I think we are finally at the ‘bottom’, bottom not in the sense of a pit or valley but in the sense of stability and sensibility (not volatility, of course). Until overal economy shows sign of [...]

Acceptance speech by Obama was simply the best I’ve witnessed live and at par with John F. Kennedy’s Ask-Not speech emotionally. Wow. He wobbled a bit after opening whomp but, boy, he piled it on and on. So good that he brought tears to people’s eyes, the good kind. Posted in General   Tagged: obama    [...]

I was wondering how Paulson throwing money at banks would unfreeze the credit market. Looks like the answer is whine until bankers can’t stand it anymore. Ridiculous. What’s next? Accuse banks of being anti-American unless they lend? IMHO, it makes more sense to measure each bank’s lending practice and adjust central bank lending rate for the [...]

Despite the long (well, sure felt long) decline and bounces, I am still all cash. Throughout the rollercoaster ride, there were many luring moment but none felt true because I don’t think it’s the bottom when people are still joking and ranting about the market. To me, it’s bottom when no one wants to talk [...]

While I am solidly in Obama/Biden camp and see McCain/Palin’s recent attacks against Obama as disturbing trendwise, I am also disturbed by apparent general bias in the media against McCain and Palin. It’s not unlike tech media’s obsession with anything Apple makes. What I am not sure about is whether the bias is in the selection [...]