2009.11.1017:58:53 GMTSayonara, e-nibbles; hullo, Gee-Mi-NiIt's final: e-nibbles is no more. e-nibbles was my trusty Dell D600 which I purchased summer after my Junior year in college through the Student Computer Initiative. Immediately after receiving the ob
2008.05.2221:17:49 EDT5-sided Sierpinski GasketWhile in the stall attending to some personal business today, I read the graffiti as usual. One particular one is a pretty poor attempt at an Apollonian gasket. Somehow from there I started wondering
2008.03.1514:04:23 EDTMidori web browserFirst a screenshot: That was Midori, a lightweight web browser based on the Gtk+ port of the WebKit engine. As seen above, it scores an 88/100 on the Acid3 test, only behind a version of Safari that
2008.03.1222:19:51 EDTBootstrap argumentYesterday I mentioned the Ken Thompson ACM Lecture in my blog. Now that I am Vicodin-free and thinking clearly, I understood why the concept tickled me so. (Well, it would've tickled me regardless, si
2008.03.1122:20:13 EDTRemoval of Wisdom tooth and other stuffMuch happened today. In the morning shower, I realized a mistake I've made in the calculation that I did yesterday. It is a good realization, whereupon I rid myself of a pesky term that I hadn't until
2008.01.2417:05:22 ESTNews in the HTML frontA few announcements were made recently regarding HTML, the language that websites are built of. First, the w3c (the organization that develops standards for the internet) released a Working Draft of t
2007.08.1212:16:00 EDTFirst Vista experienceHoly macro, so that's why the Math department terminals got an upgrade! It is an arms race! Came into the cluster computer lab today (need to use Adobe Acrobat to edit some things) and found, lo and b
2007.06.1516:25:27 EDTblogOhm b0rkage in new bashOh this is fucking beautiful. I upgraded to bash-3.2 on May 18, and haven't tried using blogOhm until today. And blogOhm completely b0rked! Turns out version 3.2 changes the regexp behaviour when usin
2007.01.0501:31:39 ESTChinese soft keyboard via XKBDOh well, since oxim won't run on my laptop, I've decided to code myself an on-screen keyboard to use with gcin. Ideally I would like to have done it with xvkbd, since its layout scheme is more elegant
2006.11.1513:16:08 ESTminiHOWTO: Mathematica over Cygwin/XS wants/needs Mathematica for problem sets (apparently the professor explicitly said: "I work under the assumption that students can evaluate integrals just fine; there's no need for you to show your
2006.08.2703:37:49 EDTFvwm config upgradesHave been playing around a bit more with my Fvwm configs. Updated files and screenshots here. Some of the things that I changed: The default font is now no longer the silly default fixed-width sans s
2006.01.0703:18:09 ESTFvwmI've decided to give Fvwm a try. My config files are here. I guess I am getting bored with Enlightenment. It is customizable, but it has also tons of features/eye-candies that I don't need. For me, pr
2005.08.2601:46:54 EDTStupid!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
2005.08.1722:19:28 EDTJournalWoke 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)
2005.08.1605:08:54 EDTThe Rebirth of CoolFinally 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
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Books (7) Book reviews primarily. Sometimes recommendations of new publications or mentioning of books I really want.
Chinese (33) Posts written in Chinese, posts about the Chinese language or culture, or posts concerning my experience being of Chinese descent. (以中文寫作, 或是內容有關於中國語言及文化, 和我個人的華人經驗的文章.)
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