Belated Happy Chinese New Year

Last year was the Year of the Dragon. This year is the Year of the Pekka.

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Chicken Finally Getting Pilot Wings

For the chosen birds this would be the first time they are air borne.

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Watch Your Back

Some organizations are a one man show; a single person controls all the resources, holds all the power, and makes all the important decisions.  In such cases proximity to the leader is the important metric, e.g. as manifested in the seating arrangement around a dinner table.  People in the organization naturally gravitate towards competing for the leader's favor in an attempt to get closer to the honey pot.  Politics and back-stabbing ensue.

When joining a kingdom, be prepared to deal with the king's court.

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Modern Day Antibiotic

Instant cure for all ailments.

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Waiting For The Worms

30 years I waited.  It was worth it.

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Differentiation

Apparently in order to compete with Google companies feel the need to adopt the opposite motto to Google's "don't be evil" mantra.

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Money Cant Buy Me Love

I have had Linksys wireless routers for several years now.  Annoyingly they all tend to drop the wireless connection every few days, so I've gotten accustomed to rebooting the devices pretty frequently.  Recently, based on recommendation from a colleague, I flashed my router with dd-wrt, an open source firmware.  And lo and behold, ever since then the device has been functioning flawlessly.  Identical hardware, similar environment, and under the same workload, but with a renegade alternative to the "professional" official firmware.

Indeed, quality is a product of passion, not of money.

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