“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.” —Warren Buffett One of my favorite blogs to read is The Simple Dollar. Today I downloaded his free eBook, verbosely titled Everything You Ever Really Needed to Know About Personal…Continue Reading…
Last night I had a fairly involved dream. It felt real. I thought it was real, right up through the moment I awoke. Here’s what I remember of it. I’m a student at USC, in my Senior year. I was sitting in class, next to Sam Choi, in a class that’s either CS 400 (elective?)…Continue Reading…
I had this problem, and it took me an unusually long time to fix. I believe the cause is that the network we use here at home changed settings. We changed from WPA to WEP, or something like that. So even though I modified the settings in the Network Preferences Pane to WEP, it still…Continue Reading…
Passwords are a problem. But there’s nothing that can quite replace them. Here’s a very interesting post about one unusual way for a password to be stolen: I Just Logged In As You: How It Happened. And here’s the punchline: So, what have we learned? Programmers are the enemy. Hey .. wait a second, I’m…Continue Reading…
Here’s an actual email that I just received: I can use Google perfectly well on my laptop. Except for one thing. The logo for Google, in red nblue and yellow, at the head of the page, comes out just as dots and dashes. It doesn’t make any difference whether I log in to www.google.com…Continue Reading…
Tonight I went to a screening of a movie called Is God Green? It was an event sponsored by InterVarsity Trojan Christian Fellowship (TCF). Nearly everyone there was in support of environmentalism, especially from the Christian perspective of being a good steward of the beautiful Earth God created. I think there’s also a balance, though….Continue Reading…