Thu Tu’s Blog

Ok, well, Google Maps didn’t a release a new feature for my birthday, but the timing is great!
They just launched a new feature called My Maps. The link goes to the Maps homepage, where you will see a new tab called My Maps. Now, anyone who can move a mouse can create a custom map [...]

Wow, Matt got me good with his hacked blog.
April Fool’s Day is one of my favorite days of the year… it’s almost like Christmas to me. I’m pretty good at detecting pranks, and since I am aware of the day, I am especially more wary of anything I read. Heck, I used to be the [...]

Last weekend, I went to the 25th Annual Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cook-off with some coworkers. It’s about an hour away. Before going, I didn’t have much expectations. I didn’t think that I would be able to discern the difference in good clam chowder. I love clam chowder so I figured they would all be [...]

The Monday before the Super Bowl, a coworker asked when I would have a Wii party. I said since the Super Bowl was coming up, Sunday would be a good day. He said he didn’t care for the game. So I had the epiphany to have a Wii party in conjunction with a Super Bowl [...]

One of the birthday gifts I got was a Targus wireless mouse with laser pointer. My friend who gave it to me actually wanted to get me a laser pointer for my cats. But since I’m a gadget geek, he didn’t get me just any laser pointer. He got a wireless mouse that includes a [...]

Heh. So the other day I went to friendster to see if I got new messages. I got one of those “so-and-so has sent you a smile” messages. The guy looked familiar so I went to the next page of messages. Sure enough, the same guy had done the same thing last month.
He’s [...]

I got this sign from Panhandler sign maker. I know it’s not funny to make fun of homeless people, but I couldn’t resist this one. I’m not making fun of the guy’s plight, really, I think it’s ironic that he has a cell phone in his situation. If I were in the same situation, I’d [...]