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  • Kevin Chiu 11:00 pm on January 31, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Google Bag 

    Every quarter tons of companies, like Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft come to give recruiting talks. During every talk, there’s free food and a drawing for some prize. In all of my years in the computer science and engineering department, I’ve never won.

    During today’s Google talk, I entered my name into the raffle by filling out a row on an attendee information sheet: name, major, email etc. I also entered Andy‘s info.

    Then the raffle began. There were four prizes, a chair, a lava lamp, a black laptop bag, and a red laptop bag. I really wanted that red laptop bag.

    The first winner took the chair.
    The second winner took the lava lamp.
    The third winner took the black laptop bag.

    When it was time to announce the fourth winner, I was desperately trying to mentally communicate my row number to Jing Jing, who was guessing numbers in the range of 1 to 80 or so.

    Unfortunately, I had no idea what number I was.

    Jing Jing plucked “40″ out of thin air, and April Yu read the entry in disbelief.

    “Kevin”

    Andy exclaimed “Whoa, no way!” and someone in the audience asked, “Which Kevin?”

    “Kevin Chiu”

    Woot!

     
  • Kevin Chiu 5:34 am on January 29, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Gmail – picture spam levels down 

    Thank you Gmail team, for making it so picture spam doesn’t get through to my inbox so easily. I don’t know what you did, but it was a step in the right direction.

     
    • Andy Hou 6:38 pm on January 29, 2007 Permalink

      It’s easy to tell what mail client you like – your last three post are all about or make reference to Gmail.

  • Kevin Chiu 8:54 pm on January 26, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Unsend 


    Webmail needs an unsend feature.

    *cough* Gmail *cough*

    Have an option to have outgoing emails delayed by a user-defined amount of time. Any email sent less than x seconds ago will be available for unsending.

     
  • Kevin Chiu 6:31 am on January 25, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    A game with a new perspective 

     
  • Kevin Chiu 3:30 pm on January 24, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Siggraph Submissions Complete! 

    Our lab’s SIGGRAPH submissions have been successfully submitted. Yay!

    In a few weeks, we’ll find out if we get to present at SIGGRAPH.

     
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