Loudoun County Public Schools is seeking a Lead Web Developer (Web Content Manager) to support the work of the Department of Communications and Community Engagement (DCE). Salary Range: $86,293 – $144,497.

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Global Marketing and Communications department is seeking an experienced web professional for the position of Assistant Director, Web Strategy and Analytics. Starting salary range from $53,300 to $93,500.

Capital One is seeking an established and dynamic Experience Design leader focused on strategic product vision, design talent growth, and coordinating teams to execute for impact at scale across the Enterprise Data team. The salary range is from $233,100 to $281,800.

Amazon has an opening for UX Designer in Arlington, VA. The base salary is from from $106,000 to $184,000. Experience prototyping with Flash. What? Amazon still uses Flash?

Hoàng Minh Châu là một ca nhạc sĩ trẻ tự hát những sáng tác của mình. “Ước mơ nhỏ xinh”, bài mở đầu cho The First Album của cô, nhắn nhủ chúng ta hãy “Buông đi ưu tư, buông những gấp gáp trong đời thường để bình yên / Bình yên đôi khi ở trong tâm bão kia”. Cô ca nhỏ nhẹ với tiếng đàn acoustic guitar.

Ngược lại với “Ước mơ nhỏ xinh”, “Váy hoa nhí (Summertime)” trẻ trung hơn với dịp dance beat. Ca từ của cô cũng dí dỏm với ngôn ngữ Việt Anh: “Em có muốn uống latte coffee? / Nước cam hay trân châu Ô long kem cheese”.

“Son” trở lại với giai điệu ballad nhẹ nhàng. Cùng với tiếng keyboard và guitar, cô vu vơ hát, “Em yêu son còn tôi thích âm nhạc / Tôi yêu em vậy nên tôi sẽ hát / Cho em bài ca về những thứ em yêu / Là lá là la lá la là”. Chẳng những hát, cô còn đọc rap với cách flow thỏ thẻ.

Album đầu tay của Hoàng Minh Châu ngắn gọn nhưng có triển vọng về lâu dài.

Found a readers’ message in my mailbox. On October 15, 2010, Consolacion Cenalmor and Phat Nguyen wrote:

Hi, Your website is absolutely amazing!

My daughter dragged me to Áo Dài Trắng À Ơi. (she has just completed a degree in costume-making) and I do understand why it raised her interest.

Biển Nhớ brought back so many memories, back to the time I worked as a volunteer in Pulau Bidong refugee camp. As a member of Pulau Bidong Alumni, I guess your piece might be of great interest to lots of former refugees who are trying to revive the story of their puzzled childhood. Do you mind if I add a link to your website?

Thanks again for sharing your interests with us and … don’t worry if blogging is no longer a priority … sure little Công Đạo deserves it! And it will take some time before my husband and I finish exploring your Ali Baba’s cave!

Best regards from France
Consolacion Cenalmor & Phat Nguyen

Thank you!

I love reading Đán’s hilarious blog posts. For instance, he shares his thoughts on writing:

To me these blog posts are huge wastes of time and are incredibly time consuming for me even though I type mindlessly and don’t even revise my writing (meaning they should be quick because i’m just speeding through them). But I kinda see the reason behind why my dad wants me to write a post a day. To him instead of it being an apple a day keeps the doctor away. it’s “a blog posts a day keeps the angry dad away” which is something I will carry on with my kids.

Yes, give me 300 words a day and I’ll be gladly stay away.

I must confess that my knowledge of classical music is very limited. I might have heard of Johann Sebastian Bach’s compositions before, but I would not have recognized them. Because Brad Mehldau is a jazz pianist, I could tell when he played Bach and when he improvised. For instance, his nimble classical skills are apparent on “Prelude No. 6 in D Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 851.” In “Toccata,” he used Bach’s composition as an inspiration to improvise on. Listeners can clearly tell where Bach ended and where he began. The juxtaposition between classical and jazz is fascinating. Mehldau is one of the few living pianists who can bring the best of both worlds together.

While our 2018 Toyota Sienna LE is still at the dealer shop, I have been driving a loaner car to work. Instead of parking in the garage, I parked on the street using the ParkMobile app.

Yesterday on my way to work, I needed to take a shit so bad that I didn’t complete the payment on my phone. I got a parking ticket for $40. I paid online to get it over with. My bad.

Today, I made sure I paid correctly in the morning before I went to my office. When I walked to my car for lunch, an officer had already put a ticket on my windshield. I tried to show her my app, which was still on the clock for another 15 minutes, but she didn’t give a fuck.

After checking the citation and my app, the license letters and numbers didn’t match. They were wrong the whole time. I suspected they were autocorrected when I entered the letters and numbers, but I didn’t double check. I submitted the ParkMobile receipt and the citation, but the Public Safety Support Supervisor didn’t dismiss the ticket. The license letters and numbers didn’t match. He didn’t give a fuck about my error.

I am not going to court for it. I’ll just pay another $40. Life is just a bitch sometimes. I just have to suck it up and pay for my mistakes.

Last night I picked up HTML5 for Web Designers to refresh my memories. I read Jeremy Keith’s first edition when it first came out 14 years ago. Rachel Andrew’s second edition had solid updated information. I am planning to teach my two teenage kids HTML and CSS. I would like them to read this book.