Open Letter to US Banks: I want easy inter-bank electronic transfers

Dear US Banks,

Please adopt something that makes bank transfers easy to do between people. E.g. please allow easy inter-bank electronic transfers. I'm not talking about wiring money between countries, just allowing people to easily pay their friends back, pay their rent, etc., all without the need to cut down trees to make checks (a.k.a cheques), and spending money on postage. The tiny nation of New Zealand does it, why can't you?

Sincerely,

S

I'm going to miss the bubble

Dear Real Life,

I know the sharp edges you bring are going to come and pop my Stanford bubble very soon. Two years has been enough to give me stress followed by elation, becoming something like an addictive drug. The roller-coaster ride it has brought has not been dull - I have wrestled and conquered it.

Real Life, you have some expectations to live up to.

Cheers,

S

P.S. Stanford you were a wonderful experience - I salute you.

Is this a Team or an Army?

I still find it ridiculous the amount of people on an American Footbal team - no wonder no body plays passed high school/university as there is just way too much involved to organise things...

Survival

I have survived.

I have survived a challenging nine months, full of stress, education, fun and excitement. I have learnt a lot, and can say I am better for it - yay for graduate school in the US...

At the moment I am just trying to relax and do a little project before my summer internship starts.

Spring

With the weather warming and the last of the rain gone, wildflowers have sprung up all over campus. Here's a patch I thought looked good - interestingly I found out that poppies are the flower of California, and that they grow all over the place...

Easter Greetings

A Happy Easter to all. Sorry for neglecting my blog, it's been a tough year in terms of finding interesting enough things to write about that the average lay person would want to read, and finding the time to write it... ;)

So here I write quickly now
while it's buzzing in the background
writing a quick Easter word
that's short and not absurd
oh wait I have to go
busy me, I know...

Google April Fools Joke

Ha! Google is promoting a service to auto-reply to messages. It's actually quite funny because I studied that stuff, so to me I know that there is no way they could have technically achieved such a great auto-reply message maker. Take a look at the sales pitch yourself - http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/landing/cadie/