http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jeffyin/blog Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:55:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ... which allowed me to contact my roommate Shuo-Hsiu to save my stupid butt. Here's what happened: Today, I left for a week-long vacation with my dad to visit the east coast. I needed to get to SFO somehow, so I arranged to leave my car at my friend's sister's place ... http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jeffyin/blog/2009/07/18/the-miracle-of-modern-technology/ Today I bought a ton of food from 99 Ranch and cooked it all in a frenzy. I made four dishes when I probably should have just made two, but I got carried away in my cooking. I probably made enough to last four meals, and that got me thinking ... http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jeffyin/blog/2009/04/18/cooking-vs-eating-out/ This is the third and last installment of posts about the talk I gave at Cal AACF's large group meeting two weeks ago. Here are the first and second parts. In the first post, I discussed why the issue of money and possessions is so important, even to poor and starving ... http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jeffyin/blog/2009/04/16/talk-iii/ This is a continuation of my previous post, so if you haven't read that, go ahead and read that first. I last left off with this thought: Giving money away is the best way to spend it. It is the biggest investment you can make in yourself. Matthew 6:21 says, "For where your ... http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jeffyin/blog/2009/04/15/talk-ii/ [I've been meaning to write this for the past two weeks, but kept putting it off because I was too lazy to upgrade WordPress and wanted to catch up on missed TV shows. Tonight, however, I was poring over my finances in Quicken and agonizing over how much I would ... http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jeffyin/blog/2009/04/14/talk/ I've written an entry in a photoblog that Vicky and I are working on. Find it at http://cupofdirt.wordpress.com http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jeffyin/blog/2009/02/06/photoblog/ I feel like I started this new blog and then immediately stopped writing in it. Sometimes I feel like blogging, or I see something I want to blog about, but I just don't get around to it, or I just find something else to do. Ok, well here's my attempt ... http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jeffyin/blog/2009/01/29/im-still-alive/ I think I've gotten too old to go camp out in line for Black Friday deals, but Amazon.com is doing their vote-for-a-deal thing again. Basically you vote on a deal and they enter you into a drawing to receive that deal on a particular day. Just go to the site, ... http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jeffyin/blog/2008/11/21/black-friday/ Vicky recently introduced me to Google's Reader app. If you don't know what it is, it's a web application that aggregates RSS feeds and presents them in one simple, easy-to-read interface. You can "subscribe" to as many sites as you like, provided they have feeds, and when new posts are ... http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jeffyin/blog/2008/11/01/google-reader/ Hi everyone! This is my new blog. Xanga and its eProps, Minis and whatnot got a little too cluttering for my tastes. Does this look like wordpress to you? That's because it is -- I just installed it onto my Berkeley OCF webserver and it's being hosted by my alma ... http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jeffyin/blog/2008/10/31/hello-world/