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Google Writely Invites

Update: I have no more Writely invites. However, there are lots of people with invitations at Google Community. Writely invites topic. Anyone want one? I signed up for Writely well before Google bought them. Again, I have no more Writely invites. However, there are lots of people with invitations at Google Community. See the Writely…Continue Reading…

Travel to the Andromeda Galaxy

In Physics today, Bickers lectured on Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. He ended class with this thought. Suppose you wanted to visit the Andromeda galaxy, and let’s say it’s 20 million light years away. You would say, no way, it’s impossible. Anything that has mass must always move at a speed less than that of the…Continue Reading…

UCLA’s harder to get into?

Someone on CollegeConfidential (thread) thought UCLA is harder to get into than USC. Based on the facts, that idea appears to be wrong. Copying from my post – They’re equally hard to get into. USC might be even a little harder to get into than UCLA. In 2005: UCLA had a 26.90% admit rate. USC…Continue Reading…

Digg this post with WordPress

It finally works! I just spent nearly an hour just trying to get the “Digg this” link to work properly. I was modeling it after other “Digg this” links on other weblogs, but they all did it different ways. Sometimes it was phase=2, sometimes phase=3. Sometimes the URL was urlencode()’ed, sometimes not. Sometimes they had…Continue Reading…

Gaim aim: protocol

Firefox says aim: “isn’t associated with any program”. I want to associate it with Gaim. How can I do that? A quick search brought me to this page, but there’s no definitive answer there: a comment notes that gaim-remote isn’t supported on Win32. Anyone have a solution?

Some food differences

English (UK)    American courgette    zucchini mars bar        milky way milky way    three musketeers opal fruits    starburst chips        french fries crisps        chips I used to wonder why “fish & chips” had no chips but only french fries. Looks like it’s just a difference of terminology.