Intermediate FormIntermediate Form blog, a grad student writing about current events, computer science, and whatever else interests him.Spirit Isn't Dead- January 22, 2004 I'm somewhat annoyed with sites like Slashdot and the Drudge Report declaring the Spirit rover dead, just because it hasn't been sending data back to earth for a day or so. While it may be dramatic to proclaim the mission a failure, it just isn't accurate. A better site for mars rover news is spaceflight now. There mission...http://tom.idealog.info/blog/20040122-1074817500.shtml State of the Union- January 20, 2004 Just got done watching the state of the union. Bush was remarkably combative. He mentioned his controversial carrier visit, gave a listing of the nations involved in the war against Iraq, and demanded that the PATRIOT act and the tax cuts be renewed. During the speech, the Democrats were remarkably uncivil. I thought I...http://tom.idealog.info/blog/20040120-1074655691.shtml Corrections, Updates, and Changes- January 14, 2004 Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, writes about how he dislikes "stealth corrections", but at the same time thinks "there's something perhaps a bit too self-important about posting an audit-trail note every time you make a minor stylistic edit to a post."...http://tom.idealog.info/blog/20040114-1074103305.shtml Stratopunk- January 11, 2004 A screenshot from Last Exile. I was having a conversation with my friend Tony today about a new anime called Last Exile , which features teenage pilots rescuing a young...http://tom.idealog.info/blog/20040111-1073800638.shtml RSS Issues (Whoops!)- January 9, 2004 Well, if you read this site through a RSS reader, you may have aggregated a few empty blog posts. This is because I posted a broken version of the RSS script, and didn't adequately test it before I put it online. That'll teach me to upgrade the blog at 1 in the morning. Rather than fix the old code, I rewrote it in python. The RSS code...http://tom.idealog.info/blog/20040109-1073662347.shtml |