Mike was kind enough to
point out
the wikkid-cool new interface to the graduate course descriptions page.
After slapping my forehead a few times, laughing hysterically, having a stiff drink, then praying to God, I decided I had to take action. I created a stronger, faster, better than before version using javascript and css, viewable here.
My new [...]
Many professors would encourage students to try and write the fastest executing program for a given assignment, possibly awarding bonus points to whoever won.
During class, they would point out ways to decrease execution time, or decrease memory usage. Such pearls of wisdom included “passing function parameters as bit vectors will save on memory usage”, and [...]
Firefox rules. To see why firefox rules, follow these two steps:
Get firefox.
Get greasemonkey.
Now you can start having fun. Possibly the coolest grasemonkey script is
Book Burro. When viewing a book on amazon.com, barnes and nobel, etc, Book Burro displays the price of the book from competing websites in a cool little floating window.
Last night, I hacked [...]
I got an invitation to join the Odeo beta
this morning in my inbox.
Odeo has three sections: listen, sync, and create. Listen lets you browse for podcasts, sorted by popularity, age, and so on. Sync lets you manage your podcast subscriptions, view a list of podcasts from your subscriptions that you have no let listened to, [...]
I upgraded my flickr account
on Sunday. I’m in the process of uploading select photos from the
Germany trip, but it’s going to take a while.
It was a matter of survival, I thought. I found myself in an
environment where there were 2 kinds of people: those who used jedit,
and those who used vim. The last emacs user had been given a pair of
cement shoes. I wasn’t going down that way; not me.
So I gave it another shot. Herk
had given me [...]
In the interest of total media saturation, I’m going to post here
an email I recently sent out:
Sorry for the late announcement, but here goes:
The short and sweet announcement (long and bitter follows):
This Monday, June 13, at 6:00 pm in teaching lab 3, the Dal-ACM will be
hosting a tutorial covering the ins and outs of working [...]
After fighting with my PC for a few hours tonight,
getting the network and X working again (the price one
pays for bleeding-edge software), I rolled out a
new release
of gnome-keyring-manager (2.11.1!!). Now if only more programs actually
used gnome-keyring.
Obviously, I’m back from Germany now. The whole trip was awesome;
I’ll probably mention it in more detail once I get [...]