Roozbeh Kavian

Jesse Schell’s talk about the future of game design as it...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:50:15 -0800

Jesse Schell’s talk about the future of game design as it invades the real world is just astounding. If you do experience design of any kind it’ll be the most valuable (and entertaining) 20 minutes you’ll spend all week.

How I learned to mind my own business…

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:53:26 -0800

I was walking past the mental hospital the other day.

All the patients were shouting, ‘13….13….13.’

The fence was too high to see over, but I saw a little gap in the planks, so I looked through to see what was going on…..

Some crazy
bastad poked me in the eye with a stick!

Then they all started shouting ‘14….14….14′…

Listen Learned: “clean up your own backyard”

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:03:07 -0800

“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”

- Danish Proverb

Blackberry Shortcut - Mark all mails as read!

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:13:54 -0800

Blackberry Shortcut - Mark all mails as read! :

It also works with facebook too. Sometimes, it becomes very time consuming to go through every single email/notifications everyday , this trick should save you alot of time.

Yele Haiti

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:53:00 -0800

Please donate $5 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund (it will becharged to your cell phone bill). use your cell phone to text “Yele” to 501501, or you can goto yele.org

"He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak."

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:51:28 -0800

““He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.””

- Michel de Montaigne

Securely deploying cross-domain policy files XML

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:01:00 -0800

Securely deploying cross-domain policy files XML

Windows 7

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:47:33 -0800

Windows 7

Asshole driven development

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:14:07 -0800

Asshole driven development:

This morning, I came across this post regarding different types of management in software engineering. There are some humorous acronyms which you would really understand if you have been into the field. My favorite

Asshole Driven development (ADD): Any team where the biggest jerk makes all the big decisions is asshole driven development. All wisdom, logic or process goes out the window when Mr. Asshole is in the room, doing whatever idiotic, selfish thing he thinks is best. There may rules and processes, but Mr. A breaks them and people follow anyway.

This boy by far is the cutest thing.

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:26:14 -0800

This boy by far is the cutest thing.

Gates Was Doubtful Over Google’s Potential

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:25:59 -0800

The future is hard to see even for the smartest people. The reason is simple: we focus on the wrong things. We look at technology and ask ourselves how it will get faster, better, and smaller. But actually, radical change comes from somewhere else: shifts in consumer behavior.

Think about what has happened to the media industry. For the past 50 years or so, media technology has been on a steady path of improvement: bigger screens, more resolution, better sound. Then the unthinkable happened.Rather than buying super-audio CDs, consumers started listening to low-quality MP3s. Instead of upgrading their movie library to Blu-ray discs, they started watching grainy videos on YouTube. People stepped off the traditional product cycle and traded quality for convenience and connectivity.

If you looked at Google, as Microsoft did in 2003, you might have simply seen a fast-growing Web-search startup. “These Google guys, they want to be billionaires and rock stars and go to conferences and all that,” said Bill Gates that year. “Let us see if they still want to run the buiness in two to three years.” What was harder to perceive is that Google represented not just a process improvement in network technology, but the vanguard of a major shift in consumer action.

The Web might have started as a series of documents joined together by hyperlinks, but it was fast becoming something else. Consumers were creating content, storing data, sharing media, and accessing applications—and all of it was taking place in a Web browser. In five short years, the tyranny of the Wintel era had been broken. The Web, rather than Windows, had become the operating system to watch.

Link: Original Post

Video

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:16:37 -0800

Sunshine UFO

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:36:32 -0800

Sunshine UFO

How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:18:13 -0800

How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell

Don't C-Walk Onto a Treadmill

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:43:47 -0800

Don't C-Walk Onto a Treadmill

Huge Girl Breaks Chair During Dance

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:41:59 -0800

Huge Girl Breaks Chair During Dance

Just Do It

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:32:40 -0800

Just Do It

Aim for the Stars, You might reach the moon!

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:07:00 -0800

Aim for the Stars, You might reach the moon!

Just Do It :)

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:54:59 -0800

Just Do It :)

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:10:15 -0800

There is a saying that feeling appreciation and not expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not giving it. Does that apply to your “Thanksgiving day?” As you sit down to your meal surrounded by family and friends do you actually give thanks for what you have received?

In these harsh times perhaps its time that we got back to basics and began to appreciate all that we have. Most of us have roofs over our heads and food on our tables. We have that aforementioned family and that, surely, is a great blessing when others are lonely. Should not we be giving thanks for friendship and what it means in our lives? Each one of us has been given talents and skills and as well as being grateful for them perhaps, at this time of thanksgiving, we should decide to use them. We may not sing like Pavarotti but we could entertain our acquaintances or help a party go with a swing.

Maybe too we should give thanks for living in a democracy where we can express our feelings through the ballet box. We should be thankful for the fact that we can walk down the street without fearing a hand on our shoulder snatching us off to imprisonment and torture.

Our health is, they say, our wealth and anyone who has been ill knows that is true. For most of us, whatever our illness, there is a hospital where we can avail of help and pain relief. Maybe as a token of our gratitude we might press for medical care to be more readily available to all who need it.

Thanksgiving you see is more than just being grateful. It is more than a secular holiday. It is a day for appreciating our own good fortune and sharing it with others. Whatever your creed or beliefs on this Thanksgiving Day remember the real reason for the celebration.

And last but not least I would like to thank every single one of our Tati Tati members for joining us. We are very grateful to have you on our side.

Payam Ghorbani
Tati Tati Foundation
President/Founder
www.tatitati.org