My broken apple got stolen

My copyrighted

got stolen by

 

And the irony is that AppVault, who used my copyrighted graphics on their blog, talks about copyrights:

In the US you can’t copyright ideas – rather copyright protects things like code, images, etc.

I usually don’t mind people stealing graphics (im guilty myself..), but in this case, it is such irony that I have to send them a message to ask for due credits, or be removed.

But instead, AppVault removed the broken apple silently..

Glad that I have a screenshot of the original as evidence (:

 

* The broken apple was an idea by me, and designed by Zhang Yi An.

The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon.

In short, he was diagnosed terminal cancer, and wrote this book for us, and more importantly, for his children to know about him. You can also watch his last lectured video.

There are 3 quotes from the book that I like a lot:

We will be 33% more efficient if we don’t obsess with what others might think.

When no one points out to you that you have done a bad job, it just means that all of them have already given up on you.

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

 

Get the book, and learn more lessons from Randy!

Why I don’t think much of Nexus One

It is just another Android phone.

Tomorrow, there is going to be another big phone release by HTC or Samsung or Motorola or Sony Ericsson or LG or ZTE or Acer or Lenovo or Google..

And it is going to be dubbed the iPhone killer, again.

From the view as a mobile fanboy or developer:

The more Android handsets there are, the more fragmented is the ecosystem, the better it is for iPhone.

 

If Google phone is this.. then it might change the game

Top 25 companies and changes in a decade

Its a New Year!

WJS has an interesting look at the top 25 companies across a decade - 1999 compared to 2009.

One note is that there were 13 Technologies companies in 1999, while there are only 6 in 2009. Bad..