Today, I did laundry for the first time here. I couldn’t find the quarters I thought I brought, so I bought $1 of quarters from John. Then, I started the machine before putting my clothes in (I didn’t realize it started right after the type of load was selected). Luckily, it allows you to open…Continue Reading…
I’m on Google Talk.
I’m blogging from the USC computer lab (I think it’s the one located at KOH). They’ve got lots of PowerMac G5’s (the Dell’s seem to be more popular, at least right now). There are lots of computers available. I wonder what is and isn’t allowed here. Games? The connection speed is simply amazing, far better…Continue Reading…
There is a huge difference between computer programming and computer science . Computer science is the study of computation, and computer scientists learn deeply about algorithms, computability, AI, data structures, compilers, operating systems, graphics, and much more. A BS or MS in CS isn’t supposed to train you to be a systems administrator or a…Continue Reading…
I forgot to blog yesterday (ran out of time, actually), and now I’ve forgotten what happened. There is one thing I’d like to write about, though. There’s a roommate agreement form that was in PDF format. I saved it as a Word document, which supposedly will save lots of trees (yay!). Neil, our Resident Advisor,…Continue Reading…
philblog tells about how Mozilla Thunderbird has its default reply position at the bottom of the email. It bugged me too. Here’s what he said about it: Apparently replying at the bottom of an e-mail is not an acceptable practice because I seemed to have either confused, annoyed, irritated, or all three, several people by…Continue Reading…