If you haven’t already, head over Mozilla to download Firefox 4 to take advantage of its full HTML5 and CSS3 support.

If you haven’t already, check out hilarious video clips of Dao dances to “If You Happy and You Know It” and rocks to Thanh Ha’s tunes.

I really like the news addition of LinkedIn. It targets articles that are related to your profession. I joined a bunch of web-design related groups and reconnecting with people I have worked with in the past. LinkedIn is definitely a great social network for professionals, especially now that “LinkedIn Surpasses 100 Million Users.”

Blossom Kite Festival is this weekend. We’ll take Dao to the Monument. I am in the process of making a kite for him. Making a kite not only brings back my childhood memory, but it is also the only thing that I still remember how to do from my childhood. This should be fun.

In “The Science of Happiness and Potential,” Shawn Achor pointed out that if you write for three minutes about your positive experience once a day for thirty days, you’ll see 50% drops in doctor visits. Speaking of doctor visits, I have not visited a doctor for more than three years. I better find me a physician soon. In any rate, I will try to focus on positive experience when I blog rather than negative ones.

Another weekend went by. Didn’t do much, but was not relaxing either. Spent time with Duke and Dana and worked on a client project. Also did some work for GWSB. When I figure out something, I just can’t wait until Monday to do it. I might forget about it.

Yesterday, we went to Nordstrom and the real mannequins freaked me out. I was like, “damn they looked real” and one of them winked. What got me was that the real models was standing right next to the mannequins. Getting paid for standing still must be hard. I don’t think I can do it. I’ll either get itchy or I’ll begin to fart. But hey, that’s just me.

I am also reading a very good book by Jeremy Keith titled DOM Scripting. Man, he is such a great writer. Very clear and easy to understand. Speaking of books, the ones that I really want to read are mostly from George Mason, not from GW. The nice thing is that I can check out these books through the loan program. So if you’re a student or a staff member of any of the schools around the Metro area, you get access to books to all the colleges around here including Georgetown, American and Marymount. So big up to George Mason.

“Ba Oi!” Oh that’s Duke calling me to go upstairs to sleep with him. So peace out y’all. Hope you all had a nice, relaxing weekend.

In “The Medium, The Message, The Method,” an informative piece in BizEd, Sharon Shinn shares 10 tips to create a unique marketing plan for Business schools:

1. Stop looking over your shoulder.
2. Focus on what makes you unique.
3. Define your marketing goals to determine your medium.
4. Choose your advertising vehicle.
5. Give special attention to digital media.
6. Exploit the power of video.
7. Join like-minded communities online.
8. Export your worldview.
9. Always remember those alumni-and other stakeholders, too.
10. Make sure that message focuses on the experience.

I would have linked to the article, but BizEd doesn’t have an online edition of its magazine.

I used to unable to drink coffee. I would get really shaky after a small cup and could not sleep at night. Those sign affects had gone the day my baby boy was born. I needed coffee to keep me up in the morning when he cried in the middle of the night. Now he sleeps through the night, but coffee has stayed with me and become part of my diet.

I don’t get coffee in the morning anymore because the line at Starbucks is insane. I wait until after lunch to enjoy a cup of grande bold with one or two rolled wafers from Pepperidge Farm. My homeboy Nate who works at Pepperidge Farm would bring over all kind of cookies whenever I go back to Lancaster.

Because I drink coffee at noon, I get really hungry by the time I head home from work. After dinner, I would kick back with a cup of iced Patron Xo Cafe Liqueur to unwind. The only problem is that the liqueur makes me sleepy afterward. If I don’t have to do anything else, I would just roll in bed with Dao. He can jump up and down all he wanted and doesn’t bother me at all.

Last Christmas, we received a Cuisineart’s Espresso Maker from Dana’s brother. Last month her sister’s husband brought back some expresso from El Salvador. My weekend joys have been waking up to a strong expresso and French baguette with fried eggs. I love my eggs sunny side up with black pepper, soy sauce and hot sauce. That’s all I need to start my weekend.

Lat weekend my sister gave me a dozen of American CDs I left at her house before I moved out. Unlike me who tend to throw junks out, my sister keeps everything. She drives me nuts sometimes, but I am glad that she still kept some of these old joints.

I went through the pile of CDs and spotted R. Kelly’s 1993 12 Play, which brought back so much memories even though I never liked the entire album because of the rap tracks. Let’s face it. R. Kelly can sing, but he can’t rap. He made a great choice of abandoning rapping altogether in his later releases. Except for “Sadie,” an emotional dedication to his mother, 12 Play was a booty-call soundtrack, especially with tunes like “Sex Me,” ‘Your Body’s Callin'” and “Bump N’ Grind.”

When I tried to tune my wife into 12 Play, I played one of the hottest hits in the 90s and she told me to turn it off. The bass gave her a headache. While I see nothing wrong with a little “Bump N’ Grind,” she doesn’t seem to “need someone, someone like me to satisfy [her] every need.” I guess that’s how marriage goes!

This is the forth time I have seen the white man in his 60s sitting in Starbucks pretending to talk on the phone. The first time I thought he did until he took his hand away from his ear without a phone in his hand. He was just rambling about the government, economy and some sort of CIA. I didn’t quite understand what he was talking about, but I hope that he doesn’t do anything crazy at Starbucks.

My golden ticket for VaultPress has arrived today and I signed up immediately to secure “At The Center of It All,” an active, engaging site for GW School of Business.

The initial intention for “At The Center of It All” was to replace our bi-weekly newsletters, but the site has evolved in such a short period of time. We now post news, events, publications and video on a daily basis. My colleague who is the associate director of media relations is doing a fantastic job of keeping the site fresh all the time.

When we launched the site, I have to use Lunarpages to host WordPress because the University server doesn’t run on PHP & MySQL. Since the University is not supporting us and we’re hosting WordPress outside of the school, I am responsible for the site. Although Lunarpages is hosting both Visualgui.com and iLoveNgocLan.com over eight years without any issue, I don’t want take the risk with the University’s web site.

Now that the site is being backed up by the WordPress experts, I don’t have to worry much anymore if something goes wrong. For $15 a month, peace of mind surely is VaultPress’s most popular feature. VaultPress is a great service and I am sure it will be successful. VaultPress is another reason I am strongly rooting for WordPress.

Heather Armstrong brings in quite a hefty income for blogging on Dooce.com about poop and spit up. New York Times reports:

[Heather Armstrong] is the only blogger on the latest Forbes list of the Most Influential Women in Media, coming in at No. 26, which is 25 slots behind Oprah, but just one slot behind Tina Brown. Her site brings in an estimated $30,000 to $50,000 a month or more — and that’s not even counting the revenue from her two books, healthy speaking fees and the contracts she signed to promote Verizon and appear on HGTV. She won’t confirm her income (“We’re a privately held company and don’t reveal our financials”). But the sales rep for Federated Media, the agency that sells ads for Dooce, calls Armstrong “one of our most successful bloggers,” then notes a few beats later in our conversation that “our most successful bloggers can gross $1 million.”

Wow!

People who cut through the malfunctioned escalator line at the Metro while everyone else waits in line. They just walk right up to the escalator as if no one is around.

Parents who don’t take their shoes off at the mall’s playground. What’s the point of taking off the kids’ shoes if the parents don’t? Adult shoes are less dirty or something? It makes no sense to me at all.

Guys, please pick up the toilet seat cover when you take a leak even if you have good aim. If you don’t want to lift up the cover, at least wipe off your own piss when you’re done.

Over the weekend, I reread John Allsopp’s Developing with Web Standards and found things John covered a year ago still work today. Highly recommended for web designers.

I will be in Tampa, Florida next week for the 2011 Building B-Schools Symposium. The last time I attended, Facebook and Twitter were hot topics for Business School and indeed they were exploded. I am excited to see where higher education is heading.

Our new 2011 Sienna clocks in over 5,000 miles in less than three months. Dao loves the van so much that he doesn’t want to ride in the old car anymore. He falls asleep in the van in less than 10 minutes of driving and he could sleep through four and a half hours straight.

This two-column design forces me to write longer than I normally do because the short sentence would look weird slipping up.