2005.08.28 01:45:37 EDT On remembering Lane wrote in his LJ entry about the overflow of emotions from memories that just popped back into his head one night when he was in Kyoto. What really shook me was his comment near the end My memori
2005.08.26 01:46:54 EDT Stupid! I am so tempted to use profanity at this moment. I needed to write a batch conversion script to convert the entries from my old website to a way that is readable by the new blogOhm engine. So I opened
2005.08.26 00:00:00 EDT Private Entry First Private Entry. If you are a LiveJournal Friend, you get to see it.
2005.08.24 20:20:30 EDT Copyright Flowchart; Baby Terrorists; Police vs. Stormtrooper; Scientist Cards The Lawyers at Bromberg and Sunstein put together a flowchart to determine the expiry of a copyrighted work. This is one heck of a complicated flowchart... even worse then some of the Oulipo automatic
2005.08.23 18:49:14 EDT The decline of science in America Harold Evans writes in the BBC about the decline of Science in the United States. If America were to continue on the present trend of catering to the lobbyists of large conglomerates, it will soon los
2005.08.23 17:42:50 EDT High Speed Strobe Photography High Speed flash photography of Balloons Popping. At the FOO Camp recently, people demonstrated home-brew High Speed Flash Cameras. They invited people to pop balloons with a needle and caught the bal
2005.08.23 01:14:21 EDT The Booming Dunes I just saw a program on NOVA about this, and it is extremely neat. In some places around the world, sand sings. Marco Polo heard it in the Gobi, Darwin heard it in the Chilean desert, and it has been
2005.08.22 22:16:40 EDT Digital cameras promote wastefulness (unfinished) Via boingboing, I found a link to this extremely cute gallery on flickr.com of photos of "faces" found in everyday objects. Here's what boingboing has to say on the topic: According to Wikipedia, par
2005.08.20 00:36:09 EDT Journal Woke up this morning with a really bad aftertaste of a bizarre dream. S knows all about it, and why I shouldn't include it in my journal entry. Note to self: the details of the dream is in a e-mail co
2005.08.18 22:30:24 EDT Journal (in memoriam of PG) After three months, I pulled out the ol' saxophone again. I was a bit rusty and playing with some of the up-tempo tunes was difficult for me. I should spend some time to work on my scales again. In ge
2005.08.17 22:19:28 EDT Journal Woke up. Late. As usual. Surprised to find e-mail from Elika, Princeton Unix User's Group's president, announcing the coming Student Activities Fair. As usual, the P-ug has a booth (half a table long)
2005.08.17 13:51:35 EDT Ministry of Reshelving Jane McGonigal is launching The Ministry of Reshelving project. The goal is to relocate a total of 1984 copies of George Orwell's 1984 from its improperly shelved place at local bookstores (often: fic
2005.08.16 18:14:21 EDT 99 Hair-pins: a tale of morality To all you teachers, would be teachers, and grammanazi out there: This, matey, is a weblog entry. I wrote it for the fun of it. It was a moment thing. If you ever have one of those moments, you would
2005.08.16 17:35:53 EDT Some small changes and updates Some small changes are made to the presentation: The home page is re-formatted using tables. There are some rendering problems in all major browsers--none of them handle position: float quite the sam
2005.08.16 05:08:54 EDT The Rebirth of Cool Finally Done! Well, mostly anyway. After three days, totaling about 30 hours of coding, I have finally finished the shell-script back-ends for the new blogOhm version. Tentatively it is numbered blogO