Another DKWAN

Published on Friday, May 14, 2010

Looky what I found, an­other D.Kwan who takes pho­tos. I bet he tried to get the dkwan.com do­main name but had to set­tle for dkwanphotography.com. Sorry Don! Maybe I should warn him that pro­mot­ing him­self as DKWAN in all caps is gonna make a bunch of non-​​Asians think it’s pro­nounced like “D-​​K-​​1″. I speak from experience.

By the way you’re cur­rently look­ing at the blog of Daniel Kwan from Fremont (not a photo­grapher), and in this post I’m writ­ing about Don Kwan from Toronto (photo­grapher), in case any­one with low IQ is reading.

Non-​​Roman Venue Names in Foursquare

Published on Thursday, April 29, 2010

FoursquareFoursquare clearly wasn’t de­signed to be used world­wide, but it is be­ing used world­wide. This cre­ates a lan­guage con­sis­tency prob­lem when adding venues. Places like China, Japan, and Korea use non-​​Roman char­ac­ters which are for the most part un­in­tel­li­gi­ble to for­eign­ers (tourists and ex­pats), so of­ten­times you’ll see sep­a­rate en­tries for the same venue – one in English, and one in the lo­cal language.

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Published on Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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Photo shoot with Anna (Part 3 of 3)

Published on Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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Photo shoot with Anna (Part 2 of 3)

Published on Tuesday, March 2, 2010

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