T211, Writing for Electronic Media ( Read more... )

It recently dawned on me that I'm coming home in two weeks.

So I changed my account mode from Free to "Sponsored+", the recently-introduced account option for one's Livejournal. It shows ads on one's Livejournal and friends page in exchange for providing some features usually reserved for Paid or Early Adopter accounts (e.g. more user pics, online storage space, etc.). Then 15 minutes later I killed the ( Read more... )

I woke up, to my dismay, around 9 AM. I tried to fall asleep again and finally did around 10, then woke up again at 1. I did some classwork until around 3, wrote some HTML until around 5, watched a couple episodes of Scrubs with everyone in Logan's room until 6, then we went off to Asuka for sushi. Came back around 8, watched another couple of ( Read more... )

This guy is really damn cool.

--Eoban

A lot of people I meet, even very computer-savvy people (you might even say particularly these sort of people), often seem to be mildly amused when I explain to them that I don't use Windows at all. Of my two computers that I use regularly, one of them (my Powerbook G4) has Mac OS X, and my old Pentium III box runs Ubuntu. No Windows. Okay, that ( Read more... )

So now you can dual-boot your Intel-based Mac with both Mac OS X and Windows XP.

Is there any reason not to buy a Mac now?

--Eoban

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Kevin Rose tries to sell digg.com as a completely democratic way of sorting through news. A user submits an article, and, if enough people 'digg' the article (that is, click on a link that improves that submission's score), then the story eventually appears on the front page (after somewhere between 30 and 60 people have dugg it). The ( Read more... )

I basically never talk about my academics, because they've traditionally been rather bad. But hey, it's time for a change ( Read more... )