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Monthly Archives: June 2004

Parsing Sigalert

30-Jun-04

Been wanting to do this for a while: sigalert.com has wonderful data that can be mined, with regards to patterns in freeway traffic. It’d be great to harvest and analyze traffic trends. TODO: email Ken (urban planning/transportation PhD at UCI) to see if they have any data i can steal email sigalert to see if […]

stuff i want to learn

29-Jun-04

vi procmail mutt cron wget arabic hindi german lisp or scheme the use of subliminal psychology in day-to-day interpersonal interactions how to use cards as deadly throwing weapons

firefox extensions

29-Jun-04

from a /. thread this morning: firefox extensions (here are some hacks to get them to work in 0.9.1 again like they did in 0.8) tabbed browser extensions adblock good adblock rules

email processing

29-Jun-04

USC (because they don’t want to go to too much trouble when they’re subpoena’d, i guess) is deleting all 6-month-or-older mail as of Sept 2. I need to find some other solution for syncing my mail both on home and work machines. gmail is providing good caching, though it would be nice if i could […]

Eclipse v3.0

26-Jun-04

Wow, my life is a bit more complete! Eclipse v3.0, a beautiful Java IDE made by IBM, was just released this morning…

The Prisoner of Azkaban

23-Jun-04

Just heard a replay of Elvis Mitchell’s “The Treatment” on NPR this evening, that started off with a wonderful interview of Alfonso Cuarón, director of the latest Potter movie (and also the director of Y Tu Mama Tambien and A Little Princess). The high point of the interview occured when Cuarón discussed how he would […]

hungry enough for dinner

21-Jun-04

Problem constraints: It’s supposedly “breakfast” time here, but my stomach is still on Italian time and i’m hungry enough for dinner… Nothing in the house but nonperishables, i’ve been gone for 3 weeks and my apartmentmate has an aversion to shopping… Craving Chinese food–haven’t had any quality chinese food in ages, due to my time […]

UK music

08-Jun-04

all this good stuff we never got in the states… went to a club in Sheffield two nights ago, where they were playing 80s music. half of the songs were “oh yeah, i remember this”, and the other half were… well, they were 80’s sounding, but it was like i’d had a lobotomy and they’d […]

Schedule

03-Jun-04

1405 : arrive Manchester picked up from airport by Sarah Check out Sheffiled, hang w/ Maria & Sarah’s family (and Dan too)

photo album for my trip

02-Jun-04

http://fairuz.isi.edu/gallery/2004Europe