http://justinong.com the glass is neither half full or half empty, it's twice as big as it needs to be Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:08:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Man, I need an iPhone now, but I still won't join AT&T so I guess I won't be getting one.  (Someone really needs to make this App for the T-Mobile G1!)  If I had this I wouldn't have to text you guys for "exits".  Not that I've done that in ... http://justinong.com/2008/11/operator-i-need-an-exit/ I doubt anyone would assume otherwise, but despite what the ad on the right might say, I'm in no way affilitated with the yes on 8 campaign. In fact, it kinda sucked to have it there. [caption id="attachment_305" align="alignnone" width="312" caption="Yes on 8 Google Ad"][/caption] http://justinong.com/2008/11/google-adsense-and-proposition-8/ SquidXXX: hey there SquidXXX: how do u know justin ong CookiesX: i met him through a friend SquidXXX: oh okay haha SquidXXX: he is my friends older brother SquidXXX: he used to be the video game king CookiesX: hahah i'll tell him that CookiesX: he has like every system ... http://justinong.com/2008/10/ive-been-dethroned-t_t/ (I didn't write this, it appeared on one of my forums) OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come ... http://justinong.com/2008/10/the-ant-and-the-grasshopper/ I only started this site as an experiment -- to see about building sites and fooling with advertising and to keep my skills sharp -- since before this one, I hadn't built a site since the bad old days of pure HTML done in a text editor.  After launching this ... http://justinong.com/2008/10/omg-thirty-thousand-hits/ I'll be the first to admit that I really have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to cooking.  In fact, learning to do so was one of my New Year's Resolutions.  Sure, the year is almost over, but thanks to the Nintendo DS and "Can't Decide What to ... http://justinong.com/2008/09/learning-to-cook-with-a-nintendo-ds-part-1/ I'm perhaps a little bit *too* amused by this. Two of the 21st century's most powerful social forces; Hip-Hop and Geek Culture, collide head-on in the feature length documentary, Nerdcore For Life.  Born on the Internet, Nerdcore is rap music made by geeks, for geeks and covers such traditionally nerdy ... http://justinong.com/2008/08/nerdcore-for-life/ On Facebook, I found an app that lets you list your past and present cars -- I thought that'd be fun, so I dug through my old photos and came up with the long list below.  I couldn't find photos of my 1990 RX-7 Convertible, so that isn't listed in ... http://justinong.com/2008/07/mazda_rx-7_obsessed/ Every so often someone asks me if they should be worried if their internet access is being monitored at work; my answer is always maybe.  It's definitely possible to figure out what sites are being visited, entire IM conversations can be logged (so use encryption), who and what your emailing ... http://justinong.com/2008/07/creepy-intern-at-work%e2%80%a6-hilarity-ensues-pics-and-vid/ Hey yos here some pics from the BBQ. Thanks again Marv, Eldo, Eric and the McChan Residence!! -faithy Here are mine: (thanks to everyone who helped take pictures) Click below for 154 more photos. [gallery] [gallery=17] http://justinong.com/2008/07/happy-birthday-america/