I read this one somewhere but don’t remember exactly who wrote it:
The thing about stereotypes is that they're true, but the thing about stereotypes is that they're not true
Being a Vietnamese (or Asian or whatever you wanna call a black hair and squint-eyed dude), I often ran into some funny stuff when people making snap judgments that made me think they might be serious about it if I don’t correct them.
Here’s what I’ve encountered about what they think:
I wish I had Tivo to record the episode of Family Guy on Sunday last week. I did some search on Google to find if there’s anybody out there posting the footage of Family Guy when Stewie and Brian traveled back in time during World War II (the Nazi invasion) but found no luck.
Anyway, the plot is that after Stewie stole the uniforms, he put them on and he looked down with a comment “Huh, that’s weird.” when he saw the McCane-Palin pin on his shirt. Apparently, this footage kinda upset a lot of McCane-Palin supporters but Fox’s representative quoted “this show is an equal opportunity offender.” so it’s kinda SOL for them.
I’m a big fan of Family Guy and Seth MacFarlane. I think during this presidential election period, this footage is a great depict of whom he supports while creating some controversy to gain (or maybe recruit) more viewers to the show. And I enjoyed watching it!
I bet many of you already know about Twitter. For whatever reason, many people call it micro-blogging. I think it’s just another new terminology in this social media buzzing world. I call it a utility that allows people to legally stalk you (with or without permission).
Anyway, that’s not the point for this blog post. I heard about this thing when it’s first introduced but never bothered to get into it. But recently, it has become the fad that many people use it to spread the news. From big corporations to presidential candidates, you can virtually find any company or celebrity there and see what other people are talking about them. I signed up for it with the interest to see what all the fuzz is about. It’s kinda cool and I enjoy using it thus far.
Apple has done an outstanding job of redesigning and re-engineering their MacBook line recently. CEO Steve Job announced a new line of improved products yesterday during a conference in San Francisco.
According to Tim Cook, Chief Operating Officer, they have done a great job so far in selling products the past three quarters. It is surprising that their revenues in the first three quarters are already equal to the entire fiscal year of 2007 during this economic downturn.
Steve claimed that MacBook is the best selling Apple computer ever. He introduced all the great new improvements and technologies Apple uses on this line of products. One thing that might raise some concerns to the consumers is the change in their pricing strategy to the MacBook product.
Adobe announced the release of Creative Suite 4 today with multiple collections including Design, Web, Production Premium and Master Collection.
According to the corporate web site, there are major enhancements focusing on workflow virtually across almost all applications.
So far, there isn’t much exciting features from a web design perspective that I have seen in this new release. Unless Adobe can prove the upgrade worth the price tag they are asking for. If not, then I’ll be ready for the waiting game.
Vanda is finally done with school. This is exciting for both of us because we both can move on with life now. I decided to take her on a mini vacation in California (she’s from LA originally) and visit family.
When browsing the Internet to find a deal on airplane tickets for both us, I landed on Expedia.com, a site that many are familiar with when booking travel packages online. Anyway, I found the tickets and then started the checkout process but then encountered some frustrations in filling out their forms.
Here is the screenshot. (Screenshots available at full post)
From the above screenshot, there is no assistance in telling me, as a web user, that there are required fields I must provide before proceeding to the next screen. So I skipped the “Home Phone” field, then it started yelling with red box.
Being curious about the new browser that claimed to support Web Standards, I looked at IE8 (still in Beta) today and found a few things that they have learned from others.
From the official web page at their site, Microsoft team listed the top features and at a glance, you can see how much of the improvements they have learned from other rivals such as Safari and Firefox. Here is the list.
SmartSreen Filter (Firefox Style)
A new security feature is introduced on IE8 to help protect your PC against malicious site that might place harmful files on your system. This is one of the features we’ve seen in the new Firefox 3 just released a few months ago.
Search Suggestions (Firefox Style)
The dropdown list suggested the keywords or phrases that you’re searching for as your type. This is a cool add-on but then again, a real replicate version that we’ve all seen in Firefox 2.
For those of you don’t know who MinhPhuong is, let me just tell you a little bit. MinhPhuong is my oldest sister's name and also the name of a logistics business which she owns for a little over 13 years. The company has some big name clients such as Samsung, Pepsi Co., Canon, NEC Tokin, DuPont and so on.
MinhPhuong Co. employs about 300 employees to date and my sister has no involvement in the hiring process unless it’s a management position.
Samsung has been one of MinhPhuong’s great clients over the years. Last week, Samsung has a shipment (243 TVs) that needs to be exported to South Africa and asked MinhPhuong to help transport the shipment to Cat Lai Port (in southern Vietnam). Unfortunately, the driver took off with the shipment valued a little over US$160,000 and sold each TV in several markets around the city for a less than US$200.00.
The deal was done behind closed doors in Chesterfield this afternoon that Anheuser-Busch agreed to InBev buyout at $70 per share. What shocking news to many Americans especially to people in St. Louis area.
Anheuser-Busch has long been a proud American brand to many people around the country especially to the St. Louis community. But is this deal done because the AB Companies set themselves up?
Over the years, the company itself has grown dramatically, but to shareholders, it’s still a small profit they got in their pockets. What shocking to me is the Busch family only owns less than 1.5 percent of the company. Who is to blame on this buyout if the Busch family truly cares about this great American brand?
Is it true that if you’re not growing, you’re dying? Not necessary to Anheuser-Busch in this case, but to many, the brand is no longer a proud American beer symbol.
It turned out that the trip to visit the Brewery yesterday Vanda and I did was the last one that can be officially called “Anheuser-Busch Brewery Tour”. There will be more changes to the community in St. Louis in the next few months after this buyout.
The folks at Smashing Magazine have compiled a great list of beautiful typography. You'll find a wonderful source of design inspiration through their post.
My favorite so far has been Nik Ainley, a talented designer.
Here's the full post called Sexy, Bold And Experimental Typography.
Enjoy!
LogoOrange.com has published an interesting post about logo design trends in 2008. I personally found some interesting design approaches, however, they don't all seem to be print-production-friendly versions (or do they really care?).
Check it out and find yourself some great inspirations for your next projects!