Yeah, he won. Awww yeah he did. First World Progress by mdumlao98 on Flickr All day today I felt like a kid on the first day of school. Everything seemed new, I wanted to learn and do so much, and I was—funny that this has become to boilerplate to say—freaking hopeful. As I’ve said before, … Continue reading
It’s coming. Obama will win tomorrow and the world will be a more wonderful place for it. In some ways, I’m sad to be away in a different country while this happens in the U.S. (Don’t worry, I voted via absentee ballot!) The joy welling up in me is something I very much want to … Continue reading
Exhibit A: Can you tell what’s wrong with this picture? That man has King Leonidas’s head plastered on in a really shitty GIF way. The title of the video implies there are other techno remixes of “This is Sparta!”. It has over 17 million views. I’m watching it, too. In case didn’t cause you to … Continue reading
I’m a Twitterer. Yes, that means loser. Since I don’t have a phone with which to produce and consume Twitter updates, I’ve been relying very heavily on ways to use the service from my computer. As with any oft-used process on my computer, I’m trying to optimize it. Web interface Let’s start with the basics. … Continue reading
I meant to post this a while back, when the article was current, but never got around to it. Its from an Ars Technica writeup bashing Google’s Second Life wannabe: Apparently, a WordPress theme, Flickr photostream widget, and a Twitter Flash badge aren’t enough to show off one’s personality anymore; I felt that one. May … Continue reading
I have several hefty exams tomorrow. Today I had my midterm for Data Analysis, and I finally freaking know what a z-score is! Because of this work before me, I holed myself up in my room and got promptly to procrastinating. Unfortunately, I was met squarely with this for my efforts. How the hell am … Continue reading
The other day in class, I was logging into my campus portal in order to download some datasets for a class, and I noticed this wondrous parity of photo and caption. I’m glad to see that my university is going all 2.0 in order to get me to use its dilapidated portal service. I’m even … Continue reading
I shill for Google routinely. Or have shilled, at least. Now they’re all up in my grill and I wish they’d just chill the balls a little bit. This seems like a good time to mention that Knol is a stupid idea and I’m against it. But I’ll probably also write a billion articles on … Continue reading
As any good Twitter user knows, the service is notoriously unreliable. Sure, they can have uptime of 99.9%, but that’s not really good enough for a microblogging service. Ever since I started twitting[1. I understand that most people use the verb “tweet” instead of “twit” when referring to using the service, but only the latter … Continue reading