Pixels and Widgets

A blog by Tai Toh

Author: ttoh

  • Installing pfSense 2.1 on an HP T5720 thin client

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    Update [20140123]: I’ve made a few modifications to the boot flags.   I admit it. I’m a big fan of technology and I have been always fascinated with the FOSS movement.  When we renovated the house, I made sure to put Cat6e drops in every room. They terminate in my electrical closet in a Cisco…

  • Steambox vs. the Incumbants (Xbox One, PS4)

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    [stag_intro]I was very pleased when Valve announced Steam OS, Steam Box and their new controller. In a year of console refreshes it struck me as the right defensive manoeuvre for Valve. [/stag_intro] The computing power available in consoles far exceeds anything that people need. The move to general purpose x86 APUs to power the software…

  • On to WordPress

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    I grew a bit frustrated with Octopress.  Too much work to keep multiple development environments in sync.  Then Apple broke my ruby installation in a recent Mountain Lion example.  So I decided to bite the bullet and install WordPress. Not too sure how I feel about that. My original reasons to moving to Octopress was…

  • Hello world!

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    Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

  • Moving Away from Octopress

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    UPDATE: This is an archived post from my previous site running Octopress. You’ll notice that I did indeed move platforms. -Tai One of the interesting things I’ve noticed in my virtuous cycle of blogging and writing: I get into a definite funk. When I moved to Octopress (from Drupal), I had hoped that moving towards using…

  • My thoughts on moving from UX to Product Management

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    So I stopped practicing UX at Kobo. Haven’t touched the stuff in over 9-months. I don’t even have Omnigraffle or any Adobe products installed. I don’t even know if I could graffle my way out of a wireframe. A bit of background Back around February, Kobo made some changes in the Product and Design were…

  • Finally back up

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    Over the past 6 months, I made a few error in judgements that have affected my ability to author stuff on the blog. I started worrying about migrating content from my blog Stupid. Really stupid. I have most of the posts available as staic HTML (it was a Movable Type powered blog). In the end,…

  • Text Editor Wars – Return of the jEdit

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    UPDATE (2014-09-13): I’ve been using Sublime Text since mid-2013.  It’s so awesome. Apologies for the pithy title, but it’s so easy to use Star Wars allusions with jEdit. I discovered jEdit back in 2003, while working in my first Information Architect role back in OnX (now called Momentum). It was surprisingly fully functional, even back…

  • IKEA SLITBAR chef’s knife review

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    Updated (2012/10/31) – Added some more thoughts about the knife’s usability and design aspect. Updated (2014/11/24) – Added some more thoughts after using the knife for 2 years. Updated (2017/01/02) – Another update. ASIDE: I originally started this post April 9th/2012,  but never got around to finishing it. At the time, I had just come…

  • Luma Labs Cinch Review

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    I ordered the Cinch camera strap the morning that I got the email on December 26th, 2011. I’ve wanted a Luma Labs sling ever since they first came out. Thoughts after using it over the last 4 months: Stable Comfortable Easy to use Versatile Beautiful The one thing that I don’t like: No swivel. While…