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Google has released a beautiful comic detailing the engineering rationale behind their open source Web browser, Chrome.

In reading it, I was struck by how completely the creators had absorbed Scott McCloud's lessons and style from Understanding Comics. But it was a pleasant surprise to see, on the last page,

Words:
The Google Chrome Team
Comics ( Read more... )

CSE P590 Computational Biology
CSE P519 Computer Science Research Seminar

If all goes well, I shall also be tracking the lectures (and assignments?) of CSE P561, Network Systems. (You may proceed to laugh darkly.)

Classes start Thursday, the 25th of September...

If you enjoy Pixar films at all, I strongly recommend WALL-E.

The part that moved me to tears wasn't the film itself, which was excellent, but the end credits -- especially the point where ( mild spoiler )

I'm going to take a break from reading LJ for a while. I don't know yet if I'll continue posting. The e-mail address in my profile is the best way to reach me, and I'll continue to receive comments via e-mail.

From the paper I'm submitting this evening:

"We ultimately discovered that Tomcat security enforcement, which is turned on by default in Debian, requires tighter software security than is currently supported by OpenMRS. The experimentation and research required to discover this incompatibility was by far the most time-consuming part of this ( Read more... )

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[caution: we'd split more than a bottle of wine by this point]

joyful_storm: "So, we're talking about differing worldviews."
samildanach: "Weltenshaungen."
"Right! Some day I want to have a bar named that. And they'll have 'lots of scotches starting with Glen'[1], and they'll all be blends..."
"... I think you mean weltschmerz."
[dissolve into giggling]

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So you need to do some computation, but it's 45 degrees C (113 degrees F) outside and your site doesn't have air conditioning? Solution.

So you need to transport vaccines requiring refrigeration across a hot, arid landscape in an undeveloped region? Solution.

Links courtesy the Computing for the Developing World class.

This evening our class on the UW campus was taught by Umar Saif, a CS professor in Lahore, Pakistan; our professor Richard Anderson participated from a classroom on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, with all three sites connected by a real-time, full N-way video link across the open Internet. It's impressive; the picture quality is beautiful ( Read more... )