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Year of Physics: 2005

The year 2005 has been proclaimed the “World Year of Physics” by the United Nations in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s “Annus Mirabilis”, in which he wrote a series of papers that revolutionized our conception of the universe.

Birthday

Yesterday, January 15, was my 17th birthday. We get a holiday – no school – for my birthday: Monday ;) They do it every year.

WordPress 1.2.2

It’s out. I’m still on 1.2, let’s see what they’ve done with this release. I’d love to join the project sometime, but I’m not sure if I’m capable of it. It would be a great learning experience in any case.

Orkut invites

This used to be a post about getting invites to Orkut, Google’s social networking system. The post is no longer relevant.

The making of a versatile game character

I just came up with this thought: Mario is, by far, the most versatile video game character ever made. He’s such an ideal franchise to have. Known worldwide, he appears in games of all sorts of genres. Think for a minute: not only the platform games he is so famous for, but dozens, if not…Continue Reading…

Updates for Windows XP

So I’m now on a new computer with XP SP2 (from CD). Interestingly, it never asked me for the product key. Anyway, here are the updates since SP2. I hope they’re safe to install. 816093: Security Update for Microsoft Virtual Machine (Microsoft VM) Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer for Windows Service Pack 2