Archive for May, 2005
Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
I read this article today, and I must say I found it to be one of the fairest assessments of the current state of Linux that I've read. It's not earth-shattering. It's not even that insightful. It's just plain honest.
One of the truer statements I've read about Linux in some ...
Posted in GNU/Linux | 1 Comment »
Monday, May 9th, 2005
I received a jury summons in the mail today, and it looks like I'll be heading to court the week of June 6. I registered over the phone tonight, and I'm supposed to call again the weekend prior to my service to find out a specific date and time for ...
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Sunday, May 8th, 2005
As a result of reading this article about the improvements to the commonly used back and forward features in Firefox to make them "blazingly fast", I decided to go ahead and grab the most recent nightly Firefox build to try it out. After downloading the archive and unpacking it, I ...
Posted in Internet | 3 Comments »
Saturday, May 7th, 2005
I was reading through the book Firefox Hacks a little bit yesterday, and I found a pretty cool bookmark trick that I had not known about. I created a new bookmark to the page http://www.answers.com. After I created the bookmark, I went to the "Bookmarks" menu and then "Manage Bookmarks". ...
Posted in Internet | 8 Comments »
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
My last semester as an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin and the summer following (before I came to Caltech), I worked for a company called NanoCoolers. I did some CFD modeling of heat sinks designed to sit on laptop CPUs that were part of a liquid metal ...
Posted in Business | 4 Comments »
Monday, May 2nd, 2005
I read this article today about how the rich-poor gap in the United States is actually narrowing...the gap in fatness, that is. I had not thought about it before, but it makes perfect sense that poor people experience greater per capita obesity than the affluent do. Before Ariele and I ...
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