This is really interesting and a little scary. I’ll link to some stories since I don’t have any firsthand new info on this. I do think it important to learn Chinese, though, but I don’t think I’ll actually get the motivation and opportunity to actually do it. China’s satellite-killer, Chinese debris. Basically, China shot down…Continue Reading…
I’d been running 2.0.1 since it was released, and I skipped over all the intermediate releases until today’s release: WordPress 2.1. This seems to be quite a major upgrade. It seemed to go smoothly, but it’s hard to tell with these things. If you notice any hiccups, let me know. One problem I have noticed:…Continue Reading…
Unfortunately, USC gives each email account only 75 MB storage space. I feel like I’m living in the dark ages of the Internet, when hard disks were expensive and bandwidth even more so. I quickly maxed out the space limit, but it’s not a problem thanks to Google Gmail. For my own curiosity, I shall…Continue Reading…
Yesterday I helped Jenny Zha submit her CSCI 101 homework. Most people do not understand FTP and SSH. Here at USC, we use CoreFTP for file transfers, but it’s actually over SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol), which works the same way as FTP. She had written her homework using Notepad, so in order to use…Continue Reading…
This is just sickening. Blake Ross points out that some website called “Rock the Vote”, which I have heard of before, accidentally linked to a MLK, Jr. hate site in their supposed memorial of the holiday. As I mentioned before, he was truly a great man. Rock the Vote apologized, but it was too little,…Continue Reading…
As heard when my roommate was watching basketball on TV, Randy Foye’s heart and other internal organs are reversed, like a mirror image. It’s called Situs inversus.