I have quite a lot of travelogue to post. Too much to actually post. Or even think about in my current sleep-deprived state. So instead, I thought this was a mildly interesting concept when it floated across the CS graduates' list:
Paul English just launched Codesnap. It's basically craigslist for software -- a site with a lightweight ui where ( Read more... )

You should come study algorithms! I mean, if you're at UW. And you are in algorithms. And, uh, plan to study. Okay, maybe you specifically shouldn't.

( Oh, you know who you are. )

A few people have asked about the dentist who is coping with my broken tooth (*shakes fist at burger place*). If you're not in or near Seattle it's probably not of interest.

( dentist )

teyli turned me on to ChoreBuster!

So you aren't disappointed, I'll say up front, they haven't actually found a way to reduce one's chore load magically via the Internet. It's actually a chore tracking and scheduling tool. You enter people (in my case, me), chores (difficulty and desired frequency and so on), and *pop*, a balanced schedule comes out ( Read more... )

Waiting for my next prospective student interview to show up and ask me questions about UW. What a terrible day it is for that. So I'll use the pause as an excuse for the following PSA ( Read more... )

i hunted you a wumpus


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UW's Graduate Funding Info Service has a blog. It's on Blogspot, so I made a feed:

uwgfis

Which you can befriend, if that is in any way relevant to you.

If you've known me for more than 15 minutes, you know I have a Thing about the "supplements" industry. I don't intend to subject you to that rant at this time, however. Apparently no-one has dropped a hat.

Instead I wanted to point out this web page. The interface is frustrating, but if you type something like "melatonin" into the drug or ( Read more... )

The undergraduate AI class I'm TA-ing is having a movie night. (In a week! Yipe!)

Apparently, last time we showed AI, and nobody came. I'm not that surprised; it's recent enough that I would guess everyone's seen it who wants to, and it's not a good enough movie to see twice. (Or even once. Urgh ( Read more... )

A rant on web design:

A lot of designers treat their sites as, essentially, artwork-their artwork, with emphasis on the possessive. They get to choose how it's supposed to look, how you're supposed to navigate through it, and what you're supposed to use it for. They're fully entitled to change colors and fonts and font sizes. And they get ( Read more... )