Richard Yoo's Weblog » Ramblings http://www.richardyoo.com The Thoughts of a Technologist Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:07:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 16 year old kid makes million bucks http://www.richardyoo.com/blog/2010/09/02/16-year-old-kid-makes-million-bucks/ http://www.richardyoo.com/blog/2010/09/02/16-year-old-kid-makes-million-bucks/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:07:39 +0000 Richard Yoo http://www.richardyoo.com/?p=1498 Clever kid.

His name: Christian Owens. His age: 16. He made his first million dollars in two years, “inspired by Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs”. This is how he did it.

How a 16-yo Kid Made His First Million Dollars

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SHE had so much.

A two-bedroom apartment. Two cars. Enough wedding china to serve two dozen people.

Yet Tammy Strobel wasn’t happy. Working as a project manager with an investment management firm in Davis, Calif., and making about $40,000 a year, she was, as she put it, caught in the “work-spend treadmill.”

So one day she stepped off.

But Will It Make You Happy?

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Apparently, the world is running out of helium. Robert Richardson, a Nobel Prizewinner, believes that helium supplies will run out in 25 years. And since no other substance has a lower boiling point than helium, this could be a problem.

The World Is Running Out Of Helium, Balloons Will Eventually Cost $100

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]]> http://www.richardyoo.com/blog/2010/08/30/helium-shortage-coming-running-out-in-25-years/feed/ 0 Is twitter and micro-blogging starting to lose its cool-factor? http://www.richardyoo.com/blog/2010/08/27/is-twitter-and-micro-blogging-starting-to-lose-its-cool-factor/ http://www.richardyoo.com/blog/2010/08/27/is-twitter-and-micro-blogging-starting-to-lose-its-cool-factor/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:06:17 +0000 Richard Yoo http://www.richardyoo.com/?p=1496 I never really micro-blogged… my twitter account is just a fancy RSS feed for this blog… I felt that twitter and the like was a “throw away” medium… just cast it out there and people may or may not read it… Looks like Leo agrees…

“everything I’ve posted over the past four years on Twitter, Friendfeed, Pownce, etc. has been an immense waste of time”

Buzz Kill

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Houston ranks No. 10 among major U.S. metros for high-salary jobs, according to employment Web site TheLadders.com.

Houston ranks No. 10 in high-salary jobs

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Contrary to the Machiavellian cliché, nice people are more likely to rise to power. Then something strange happens: Authority atrophies the very talents that got them there.

The Power Trip

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Behavioural differences between the sexes are not hard-wired at birth but are the result of society’s expectations, say scientists

Male and female ability differences down to socialisation, not genetics

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It’s hard to imagine my childhood without the neighborhood park.

I was always under the rosy assumption that every kid grew up knowing the joys of a local playground. But it turns out that only about one in five kids live near parks.

Health officials have concluded that this may be one reason why so many American kids are overweight — there’s nowhere closeby for them to run around, play and get exercise (whether intentional or unintentional).

Lack of nearby parks, playgrounds one reason why children are obese, health officials say

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According to a Pew study, 21% of Americans claim that they don’t use the internet (and 5% still connect using dial-up). How is this possible? I think I’ve even seen homeless people peruse the internet on their iPhones.

One Fifth of Americans STILL Don’t Use The Internet

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]]> http://www.richardyoo.com/blog/2010/08/19/doctor-laser-inside-the-wondrous-lab-of-one-of-the-worlds-last-holographers/feed/ 0 Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” meets “The Office” http://www.richardyoo.com/blog/2010/08/18/lady-gagas-telephone-meets-the-office/ http://www.richardyoo.com/blog/2010/08/18/lady-gagas-telephone-meets-the-office/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:10:00 +0000 Richard Yoo http://www.richardyoo.com/?p=1476 Combine Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” with “The Office” and you get this video:

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Just 65 years ago, David Livermore’s paternal grandmother died following an operation to remove her appendix. It didn’t go well, but it was not the surgery that killed her. She succumbed to a series of infections that the pre-penicillin world had no drugs to treat. Welcome to the future.

The era of antibiotics is coming to a close. In just a couple of generations, what once appeared to be miracle medicines have been beaten into ineffectiveness by the bacteria they were designed to knock out. Once, scientists hailed the end of infectious diseases. Now, the post-antibiotic apocalypse is within sight.

Are you ready for a world without antibiotics?

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