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Plans
I recently accepted an offer from Ksplice, inc. to join them starting this summer. This means I will be leaving the M.Eng program at MIT and not continuing work towards my Master's degree ( Read more... ) -
meta
I hate how much of my life seems to be governed by the phrase "Things that I wish I wanted to do. -
Memes
I think I have a new appreciation of the power of random 'net memes. -
Politics
I finished The Audacity of Hope yesterday. I was on the whole impressed and inspired, and will probably vote for him, but I'm still not really happy about it ( Read more... ) -
You know you're a geek when...
Somehow the topic of two-column geometry proofs came up in conversation last night. I remember when we did two-column proofs for a short while in high school. Everyone else found them either hopelessly tedious or utterly inscrutable, but I found them comfortingly familiar. You see, I'd spent the previous year learning z80 assembly for my Ti-83+, ( Read more... ) -
Lessons of the week
Nelson's lessons of the week:
Don't drop laptops. They don't like it.
[On boot]
/etc/init.d/rcS: line 50: 3096 Segmentation Fault $i start grep: /proc/filesystems: No such file or directory * udev requires tmpfs support, not started.
[Later, after booting from a LiveCD...]
$ mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 ( Read more... )
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ljupdate.el
If I do use livejournal, it would make me very much happier to post from emacs. ljupdate.el seems significantly less broken than some of the older packages I've tried for blogger and WordPress, so this just might work.