Jason Ishibashi

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An American ob/gyn goes to Africa to help women dying in childbirth, develops a suitcase solution

17 October 2011 ·

Jason Ishibashi

XKCD Explained

How have I not heard of this blog before now? I’ll go with the, “well, because you’re so super-smart you got every joke and never had to have XKCD explained to you.” Yeah… right.

11 August 2011 ·

12 Years Ago, Star Wars was Revived

Totally Rad Show noted that on this day in 1999 Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace released to theaters which makes me feel old.

Here are some interesting facts.

12 years ago on this day…

… most people didn’t yet realize how much the story sucked - still in zOMG-THAT-WAS-AWESOME mode
… I had no idea who played the decoy Queen Amidala (a girl named Keira Knightley or something)
… I had an AMAZING Diamond Rio 600 32MB MP3 player (it could JUST hold an album at crappy bit-rates)
… The very first iPod was still two years in the future
… I had a Hotmail account (actually still do)
… The CLOSEST thing I used to a “Social Network” was AIM
… AsianAvenue was 2 years old by this time, but I didn’t use it
… LiveJournal was one month old
… I knew how to make a website, but it was fugly. WTF is CSS?
… Apple was still in trouble and the iBook did not yet exist (although the colorful iMac was gaining popularity)
… Mac OS 9 was still in development and Mac OS X was two years in the future
… Tablets were a miseriable, horrible failure (as I type this in the SquareSpace iPad app) (WTF tumblr! Where’s my app?)
… Bluetooth 1.0 spec was defined, but almost no one knew what Bluetooth was
… I had a computer with a brand new Pentium III processor (500 MHz) and an incredible 14GB hard drive
… Zip Disks were the way people moved data
… I searched the internet with DogPile
… I used IE5 because, well, it was the best and Netscape 4.x was getting super-old
… I was still two years away from having a cell phone (the obligatory Nokia 33xx)

Actually, this post makes me realize how MUCH happened in the year 2001.

19 May 2011 ·

Get 20 GB Free Storage For One Year From Amazon 1

Get 20 GB Free Storage For One Year From Amazon

We just told you about Amazon’s new Cloud Player music streaming service. To sweaten the deal Amazon is running a promotion. If you buy an MP3 album from the Amazon MP3 Store, you get 20 GB of stroage free for one year from the date of purchase. After one year is up, you will drop down to the free 5 GB plan, and you will never be charged.

Get the full details here.

29 March 2011 ·

Jason Ishibashi

Amazon Launches Online Music Streaming Service

Simply upload your music to Amazon’s servers and play them via the web or via Android. The new service dubbed Cloud Player works with the current Cloud Drive service which allows users to store any data up to 5 GB for free.

Google and Apple are rumored to be working on their own cloud-based players, but with the launch of Cloud Player, Amazon is the first to market.

Cloud Player works extremely well with the Amazon MP3 store, but can also handle music from post-DRM iTunes as well as other unencrypted music sources.

Cloud Player does not blow your mind, but rather gets the job done simply. Hopefully, this is an early release with more features to come.

Learn more about Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player.

29 March 2011 ·