Studying GRE Words- September 29, 2004 Studying for the GRE, especially studying words, can do weird things to people. This AIM conversation is a great example: Can Sar: thanks dude Can Sar: dude is an awesome word Can Sar: though cantankerous is too Eric Sun: true On a more serious note, the studying is working out well, and I'm learning an average of 20 words per day. I'm trying to finish a list of about 1300, so it should take around 3 months. This would be...http://www.stanford.edu/~csar/blog/archives/2004/09/29/studying_gre_words.html Let's get it started- September 28, 2004 I've spent the last few days watching movies and setting up my room. Enough of that. Today is the day to get started, and I am ready. I just got an email about CS 199, and things are looking good. I don't have an exact unit count or project description yet, but I am starting to prepare for the beginning of the class. Today will be a day of reading and awesomeness. I am completely and utterly excited....http://www.stanford.edu/~csar/blog/archives/2004/09/28/lets_get_it_started.html A Day to Unplug- September 27, 2004 Yesterday was rather ridiculous and not too productive. First of all, I just realized that my US to Europe Plug Converter, is slightly too tight for my laptop plug to fit, so I am now filing a part of it away, cause I don't think I'll be able to buy one here. Unfortunately, after filing and cutting away on it for about two hours, I tried to fit the plug, and while it wasn't far enough to work, it was...http://www.stanford.edu/~csar/blog/archives/2004/09/27/a_day_to_unplug.html Arriving at Stanford- September 25, 2004 I arrived here yesterday at around 1:30 (Pacific Time, the one below my blog is set to) and dumped my stuff in my room before setting out for a tour of campus. The only thing I did before was trying to get a wireless connection to write home, without much luck. It turned out that most people aren't on campus, or were not in their rooms. The only people I was able to find initially were Eric Sun and Eric...http://www.stanford.edu/~csar/blog/archives/2004/09/25/arriving_at_stanford.html Getting into Photography- September 22, 2004 Few of you can understand how obsessed my dad is with his Canon 10D. There is no denying that the camera is one of the best hobby digital cameras out there. Today I rediscovered Robert Love's Blog, after wondering why he didn't post anything for several months (he changed servers). I then stumbled upon this post. I remember Miguel carrying around a large digital SLR camera during VM '04, but did not know it was a 10D. Since yesterday I...http://www.stanford.edu/~csar/blog/archives/2004/09/22/getting_into_photography.html MT Blacklist Upgrade Horror- September 21, 2004 I tried to update MT Blacklist today, but had horrible problems with tons of incompatibilities because of differing versions of MT (3.0D, 3.1, 3.11 ) and MT Blacklist (2.0b, 2.0e ). Now its mostly working after several weird hacks, but its lacking a bunch of features. I would appreciate it if all you spammers took a break until Jay Allen is done updating this thing. ;-) Update: I'm slowly getting the hang of this thing. Comment moderation is actually amazingly...http://www.stanford.edu/~csar/blog/archives/2004/09/21/mt_blacklist_upgrade_horror.html Flickr Photo Blog- September 20, 2004 Some of you might have already heard of Flickr and others might have seen my new Moblog bar on the left. All of you others should read carefully. Flickr is a weird mix between a Photo Album, Social Networking Tool and a Moblog. It allows you to upload your pictures and make them available to either everyone on the web, or just certain users (Friends, Family, etc.). It also allows you to post pictures through email, which is especially nice...http://www.stanford.edu/~csar/blog/archives/2004/09/20/flickr_photo_blog.html Movable Type 3.1- September 20, 2004 I've made the swith from Movable Type 2.66 to 3.1. While updating I almost managed to delete all my templates, but somehow they miraculously stuck around. After tweaking some things, I am quite happy with this new version. This transition is part of an ongoing effort to keep the technology behind this blog update. I have been looking into several solutions for Moblogging, and am staying with Flickr for the moment (more about Flickr in later posts). Since I am...http://www.stanford.edu/~csar/blog/archives/2004/09/20/movable_type_31.html Get Organized!- September 20, 2004 43 Folders is one of the best websites I have come across in a long time. 43 Folders is a blog about how to organize your work and computer life. Since discovering 43 Folders I have revised my Laptop folder structure, allowing to find stuff faster. I have installed and started using several programs that have made my work more effective. The first one was QuickSilver, an app-launcher with many amazing features, such as opening a file, appending to it,...http://www.stanford.edu/~csar/blog/archives/2004/09/20/get_organized.html The Month of Firefox- September 17, 2004 Its time to take back the web. Many of us have had to fight with the dominance of IE for years now. We had to accept its security holes, outdated standard support, and terrible rendering. We had to live with Popups, Active X Viruses, and random crashes. Some of us did not know what alternative browser to use, or thought it too complicated. That time is over. Every day now, newssites are full of reviews of the excellent Firefox browser....http://www.stanford.edu/~csar/blog/archives/2004/09/17/the_month_of_firefox.html |