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Mom’s Advice

Today I went to talk with David Woollard, who is working on his Ph.D here at the University of Southern California. The meeting went a bit long, so I was a little late to my next class: tennis. When I got there, I met Amber, the lady who was letting everyone know that the class…Continue Reading…

Votio to Poll for Your Favorite Posts

I’ve just installed Votio, a sweet WordPress plugin that allows you to vote on the posts I write. Read my posts, decide how much you like them, then use the spiffy AJAX-powered vote images to tell me how much you liked it. Then, please leave a comment. Try it out! One thing I don’t understand…Continue Reading…

Security Update for Windows XP

Five updates to install on my laptop. Here’s one of them. Size: 182 KB – 583 KB A security issue has been identified that could allow an attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows-based system and gain control over it. You can help protect your computer by installing this update from Microsoft. After you install this…Continue Reading…

Anything Audio Becomes Video

Radio first, then TV. Audio tape, then videotape. CD, then DVD. Music iPod, then video iPod. Audio podcasting, then video podcasting. Audio blogging, then videologging. Before that, there was text. Writing, books, newspapers, magazines. Of course, text and audio still have their place. But video is growing at an accelerating pace. If one can spot…Continue Reading…

Stop MusicNowPlaylist

If you’re getting IMs from MusicNowPlaylist and can’t block the bot, say “menu”, “1”, then “cancel”.

Macworld 2006 with Steve Jobs

I just watched the whole hour and a half of Steve Jobs’ presentation at Macworld 2006 (webcast). Some very exciting things going on there. Did you notice that Intel has changed their logo? I’ve known Intel’s old logo for as long as I can remember. And I must say, I liked the old one better….Continue Reading…