What Does StarCraft2 Brought On The Table

It's been awhile since I played a PC game that requires more than few hours job. If not mistaken, my last was Diablo2. Emm, that's like what, 10 years ago?

I'm excited few weeks back when knowing sc2 is going to be released. Colleagues of mine went frenzy about this, and the next days most of their MSN were tagged with sc2related status post. And for me, I don't have luxury of spare time to make up with it.

WTH.




Falling sick. Literally.

White, Orange, Black, Red and White. I wonder where's the little blue?



So the enlightment of sc2 and physical fatigue added up and glued me nicely on my couch.

Flashback. Year 2010.

Crappy year, I'd concluded.




Peanut sized pay increment, groundnut scaled bonus better-than-nothing ang pau, worse-than-expected pink form programme, tighther-than-ever working time, greater but shallower learning landscape, lousy salary and deteriorating health. I can list more, but I guess that's enough.

A phrase crossed my mind. Brain Drain. You can't beat it, You join it.

Yawl.


Time to step back. Time to let go.
Time to ignore. Time to have some fun.
Time to sleep.

Yawl.

XBRL for Dummies

After I fiddled my time with skimping through specification of XBRL 2.1, XBRL Dimensions 1.0 and XLink 1.1, I decided to get untechnical for a glimpse. Here you go, XBRL for Dummies, written by Charles Hoffman aka Father of XBRL and Liv Watson, one of the founders of XBRL.

400+ damned pages albeit pretty light materials, it took me few days to finish the reading. Although the depth is shallow since the book is for Dummies, it provides quite delicate coverage of XBRL regime with pointers to case studies, reference materials, state of the art landscape of products and services and some enlightments of how to make value out from XBRL. It's definitely one of the up-to-date introductory literature you just can't miss.

Facebook Deactivation

I'd posted up a status update in my Facebook account like few weeks back, saying that my will to stop using its services and not many people seem to believe it. And Ta Da, I deactivated my account yesterday. As a matter of fact, I can't find a link called Delete My Account, so I just settled down with Deactivation. Googled and found that you can actually delete your account but only through a relatively lengthy procedure. Nevermind, deactivation it is.

Face swelling finally subsided and I'm taking some "hard" food today. Can you imagine 2-3 days intakes of food limited to stuffs like mashed potatoes, plain congee, milk and ice creams (no complains on this!)? Cravings are crawling around.

It DO costs you to mess with Wisdom!

O ya, when I read a paper about how XBRL is being analyzed from a postsocial approach and as a socio-technical object, Facebook crossed my mind. I'm curious whether there's any similar study on FB. Maybe yes, but no time for me to look further.

Essentials of XBRL

While my recuperation from Wisdom extraction is in progress, I managed to finish the reading of this book during the dull weekend. Pains still intact though.

This book is targeted for the audience from the group of C-level, hence you can imagine how above-50,000-feets the materials can be. Nonetheless, it does provide a very important perspective on how XBRL can portrait itself as a valuable corporate asset and not just another technology.

It is only 200+ pages and with a lot of spaces in between the lines for easy sighting of old folks. Lolx.

Anyway, the book is focused on elaborating the evolutionary power of XBRL in the accounting field, particularly how it will transform accounting firms and corporate accounting department. However, I guess it would be more valuable if it can includes more emphasis on other stakeholders such as regulators and software vendors and not just a breeze on them.

Moving forward.