Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 01-14-2016) Asics@eBay Offers $75 Off $100 (at checkout). You can Mix and Match to reach $100 in total for your orders. Shipping is free. You can use ebates to get some cash back; you don’t have to use dealsea (Original 01-01-2016) I used to work at a place near Laumeier Sculpture park. It has

Reading Time: 3 minutes for the kids. This is my second trip, and the first for my wife and two kids (5 and 1 year old). And we went there during its busiest time (Dec 23/24). Some random thoughts: 1) I started to appreciate the quality, brand and customer service of Disneyland (and California Adventure) show, ride and parade.

Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s that time of the year again: a lot of shopping or sales, more online than offline, givings in kids school and at work place, bells outside local Schnucks, gift cards, Christmas trees and decrorations, happy holidays or merry Christmas, red cups or white cups. I know I know I won’t go there.  Gift giving

Reading Time: 3 minutes I used the UA miles for my own ticket, it’s not UA saver economy all the way, but I felt it’s ok. The full ticket price was about $1100, and I spent 115000 miles (80k + 35k). Since I was short for about 1200 miles, initially I was worried shell out $75 for those miles,

Reading Time: 2 minutes I thought this problem for a while. Sometimes I heard people complained companies like Lego discriminate: their toys are more for boys than girls, so Lego came up this Lego friends series which is geared more toward girl, as they ranges from bakeries, beach house, to rain forest rescue, and they have a lot girl

Reading Time: < 1 minute Serenity has 2 birthday party invitation today. Because we already agreed going to the first one, we cannot back out although serenity told us she wanted going to the second. She even says she likes gymnastics now. When did that happen? Last I recall I had to drag her to the gymnastics class, not literally,

Reading Time: < 1 minute (Update 01-22-2019) Managing your Database Secrets with Vault Manage Your MySQL Database Credentials with Vault Last but not least, the GSG for Vault (I recall I went through once last time, on my Mac). (Original 11-19-2015) We most likely heard about Docker, the ultimate container. Recently I followed the GSG on the official website to

Reading Time: 4 minutes (Original 11-12-2015)I decided to give cloud server another try, after my failed attempt to move WordPress from shared hosting to Amazon AWS last year. This time I go with DigitalOcean as I heard good things from my friend Don (who made this cool makeyourcase site and api). Decision choosing Apache or NginxI chose Nginx over

Reading Time: 4 minutes (Update 11-19-2015) It appears Facebook started to spam me. It sent an email saying I got a new message, which is not true. It actually sent not just one, but two messages. Also this is the second week of my pager duty. This afternoon Gas Buddy sent me an alert, and it got to my

Reading Time: 2 minutes Just look at this smart watch on Amazon. Can you believe one can get a smartwatch that basically has the functions of a $100+ pebble watch, and sell for $12.80 at Amazon? We know stuff at Wal-Mart are made in China. How about this watch? I bet it’s made in China too, not only that,