Great music I’m listening to
Thursday, June 29th, 2006Highly recommended alternative bands: Calexico Voxtrot PepLab The Decemberists
Archive for June, 2006
Highly recommended alternative bands: Calexico Voxtrot PepLab The Decemberists
Prime Numbers
Thursday, June 29th, 2006Here's a nice one. Show that, for any prime number p other than 2 and 5, there is a multiple of p that is written as a series of 1's in decimal representation. For example, 111 is a multiple of 3, and 11 is a multiple of itself. Hint: Use ...
Hypercube House
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006Someone built a 4D hypercube house in Second Life. (I discussed hypercubes a while ago)
Trying out virtualization on my new ThinkPad
Saturday, June 24th, 2006Got my new T42p a couple of days ago. After playing around with it for a while (1600x1200 resolution rocks!), now comes the fun part: Installing Linux. After checking up on what's hot in the market I decided on Ubuntu. So now the question is what configuration to use: dual ...
Fun With Google Trends
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006Been playing around a bit with this cool tool from Google that lets you pit search terms against each other in a popularity contest of sorts. Some interesting searches:
Calculating The Length of a Path
Tuesday, June 20th, 2006When I learned calculus in high-school, integrals were introduced as a way of measuring the area below a function's graph. I was quite struck by this concept, and I tried to find other geometric properties of functions I could calculate. The first thing that came to mind was measuring the ...
Google Analytics
Sunday, June 18th, 2006I signed up for Google Analytics a while ago and received an invitation about a week ago. It's a free service from Google for web site owners that allows you to get detailed statistics about your site. After you sign up, you get a short piece of Javascript code that ...
My New HiFi
Friday, June 16th, 2006Just got my new iPod HiFi (pictures). I'm no audiophile, but I find the sound to be incredibly good, especially for an all-in-one unit. This is my second ever Apple purchase (the first was my Nano), and I'm starting to grow very fond of these guys..
Friday Night Hacking
Thursday, June 15th, 2006(full story now posted... sorry about the partial post earlier) Last Friday I was over at my girlfriend's parents' house for dinner. My girlfriend's sister had been nagging me for a while to install something on her laptop, and this time I finally remembered to bring the installation disc. Now, my ...
Microsoft and Google
Monday, June 12th, 2006I think the cultural difference between Microsoft and Google is wonderfully illustrated by the title of the MSDN search form: MSDN Enhanced Search I'm willing to bet that you will never see a 'Google Enhanced Search' page. Their search page title is simply 'your query - Google Search'. Google search is better than ...
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