Health

Time for the clear liquids only

This morning at 10 am Pacific time marked 48 hours till I go under the knife. That means it is officially time to switch to clear liquids only. On the bright side, no more protein shakes until a few days after surgery. On the not-so-bright side, I’m now severely limiting my caloric intake even...

Jul 24, 2012 2 minute read.

Health

Just over a week to go...

I’m really feeling the pressure of this liquid-only diet. It’s hard, it’s extremely hard. The strange thing is, it’s not the lack of food that makes it the hardest. What makes it really hard is that I’m just sick of the protein shakes. Fortunately, a good friend and coworker has brought me some...

Jul 18, 2012 1 minute read.

Health

Pre-Op Appointment Day, Down over 83 pounds!

Today was my pre-op appointment with the surgeon to make sure I’m all set for surgery. When I stepped on the scale (which looked just like the one pictured on the right) today I was pleasantly surprised to find out that I’m down to 406.7 . This means I’ve lost 83.5 pounds total so far and I...

Jul 10, 2012 1 minute read.

Event Review

Google I/O 2012 starts tomorrow morning

Google I/O is almost here, and the Google Developers have created a nifty widget for enabling the live stream of the video on your blog, as well as embedding my own Google+ stream as a Live Blog of sorts, so head on after the break for my live blog where I will post about the stream while it...

Jun 26, 2012 1 minute read.

Health

Surgery has been scheduled

The Gastric sleeve surgery I mentioned in my earlier post has been scheduled for July 26, 2012 at 10:00am at El Camino Hospital . This is the same hospital I was in last fall when I had Cellulitis in my left leg.

Jun 18, 2012 1 minute read.

Technology

Getting full resolution on a Macbook Pro Retina Display

UPDATE 2012-06-18: My Justia colleague, Dan Vu Quoc , has let me know that the 3rd party shareware Screen Resolution utility for Mac SwitchResX is capable of pushing the Macbook Pro with Retina Display’s resolution up to the full 2880 by 1600 resolution even when not plugged into an external...

Jun 16, 2012 5 minute read.

Health

Weight Loss Update and transparency

As everyone who has ever seen me (or a picture of me) can attest, I am extremely obese. After I wrote my most popular blog post ever , one wiki (which doesn’t seem to be online anymore) linked to my article and credited me only as “a very large man” and it is true, I was and still am quite huge....

Jun 01, 2012 5 minute read.

Web

Web Intents are Great | Web Intents are Horrible

Web Intents in Google Chrome 19+ changed what happens when you view an Atom or RSS Link, here's how to get your XML Back

May 30, 2012 2 minute read.

Technology

You'll never probably need to delete another message

Remember when GMail first came out ? 1GB of email was unheard of, especially in a free service at the time. One of Google’s big selling points was “ you’ll never need to delete another message. ” It was right there on the home page. If you compare the home pages from 2004 and today for Gmail...

Apr 24, 2012 3 minute read.