Archive for May, 2005

A Very Realistic Assessment of Linux

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 ...

Jury Duty Next Month

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 ...

Instantaneous Back and Forward in Firefox

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 ...

Cool Firefox Bookmark Feature

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". ...

My Old Employer on Slashdot

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 ...

Rich People Are Fat Too

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 ...