MIT Pranks

Apart from academic quality, MIT is definitely the best school if you want to build your career in pranking. They already have a group called MIT Hack that will do fine job training you by involving you in prankster extra curriculum. This year, they have made Halo the sacred, historic, and world-renown statue of John Harvard.

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My favorite is this one -- they've moved a small-sized fire truck up to the Great Dome. Pretty darn cool...


Send your children here. You won't be disappointed.

Steve Jobs Hates People Like Me

Uncle Stevie's got an angry rant today about the job McKinsey did over there. Although I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, terribly sorry, Steve. I picked this career track before I even know your secret diary exists.

And yes, my firm's end-user platforms are completely Microsoft now. We run Windows XP on ugly ThinkPads, all firm-approved mobile devices are required to run Windows Mobile, we don't know what we do today nor can send message without Outlook and Exchange, we don't call each other anymore but chat through Live Communicator. There are more but I think you get the idea... People just keep complaining about work/life balance in this industry. I guess you can turn things around by moving things to Apple. Free MacBook Pro, iPhone, and free iPod Classic will surely save a lot of our sanity and blood pressure level. And we will be the coolest kids on the plane!

I heard that there may be needs for our help at Apple. I would be more careful before coming in if you have this attitude then. I probably need to paint my ThinkPad silver, put on the Apple white sticker that you give us with an iPod, run WindowsBlinds with Mac OS skin, and shut up when we get BSOD. Peace out. Namaste.

BlogRush - Hoax or Real?

Just found this article about the new blog headline exchange service dubbed BlogRush via BlogNone site. Basically, a blogger has to register their blog and RSS feed with BlogRush, place the BlogRush widget, and then BlogRush service will automatically find the similar contents to your blog and place them in the widget. Your postings will also be placed in others' blogs in return.

The article argue that this BlogRush doesn't do any good except trying to boost their site popularity. I feel it's no harm trying it so I just placed it there. I've also got Google Analytics enabled in this blog -- will report back how much more traffic it improved.

Another Corporate Example from Dilbert

I'm sure you have or will have experienced this in a project at some point.