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A friend and I got rear-ended tonight. Not our fault, but our backs and necks hurt, and the car is probably totaled. I think the moral of the story is: You could be killed any time, so if someone offers … Continue reading →

I think I have finally figured out how how to bookmark Google Calendar searches. The problem was that the search parameters did not seem to be passed using URL “get” parameters. The Google Calendar URL was always just https://www.google.com/calendar/render and … Continue reading →

Stephen had some questions about Java on the Mac. I tried to answer them. From the DrJava site, I see notes that a JDK is already installed on OS X machines—that explains why I can’t find downloads for it. There … Continue reading →

These are really cool panorama pictures of my university: Experience Rice University’s 300-acre campus and its urban surroundings by taking our virtual tour http://bit.ly/a7Yt0I If you click on the fourth image from the left in the navigation bar at the … Continue reading →

[cci]find . -name \*html -or -name \*inc | xargs grep -l “\.owlnet\.” | xargs -n 1 -i bash -c ‘p4 edit {}; sed -i “s/\.owlnet\./.clear./g” {}'[/cci]

I guess it was only a question of time before someone wrote a programming language in LOLcat dialect: LOLcode. This listing, for example, prints out the numbers one to ten: HAI CAN HAS STDIO? I HAS A VAR IM IN … Continue reading →

Friend: “Do you really want an academic job?” Mathias: “Yes.” Friend: “Why? Is that what you’re comfortable with?” Mathias: “It actually isn’t the most comfortable, but it is the most rewarding.” \*sigh\*

Hurricane Alex, the first hurricane of the 2010 season, is predicted to make landfall south of the US-Mexico border. Still, it’s a reminder to stock up and start paying attention again. And to realize that, nearly two years after Ike, … Continue reading →

I just did an upgrade to WordPress 3.0, and I also gave the site a small face lift. The new default theme, Twenty Ten, actually looks quite nice. Everything seems to be working, but if you notice any problems, please … Continue reading →

OK, now I also want an Apple iPad: Papers for iPad has been released. I still haven’t made it to the Apple Store to play with an iPad since it was released, but the visit is firmly on my To … Continue reading →

My mother and I visited the Koerperwelten Bremen exhibition today. It is one of the Body Worlds traveling exhibitions that display real human bodies that have undergone plastination. Here are some images from the exhibition in Bremen. There has been … Continue reading →

While looking for information on Soot, I found this little gem here by Chris Pickett: swd, Subversion Word Diff. This is perfect for writing LaTeX papers in a group. For example, when I do an svn diff on our Mint … Continue reading →

I bought a RadioShack 12 V, 1.5A power supply today to replace the one that died yesterday. I had written down the voltage and current, but hadn’t bothered with the actual tip because I expected to just buy the cheapest … Continue reading →

A while ago I found an article entitled Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained, and I liked the example to quickly create backup files. Well, today I had some kind of Perforce problem after I renamed a couple of files, … Continue reading →

Tonight, a very packed ten days ended. It was fun, but I’m looking forward to sleeping in. March 10: Flight to Milwaukee, SIGCSE 2010 conference March 12: Conference talk at SIGCSE 2010 conference March 13: Flight to Indianapolis March 15: … Continue reading →

Corky and I had our presentation today, and it went well. I wish I had had some more time to practice, but that just wasn’t possible, since we decided to add something to it just yesterday. We got some good … Continue reading →

Apparently, Subversion is adding support for an “obliterate” command that can delete a file completely, including from the revision history. I once had to do this because I accidentally added a license file that needed to be kept private into … Continue reading →