Monthly Archives: April 2006

Can we please establish something once and for all: Science ∩ Religion = ∅ I might be one of the very few people who think this way, but I believe this to be true. Religion and Science are mutually exclusive. … Continue reading →

Ha ha! Apparently Xbox 360 violates Lucent’s patent on MPEG-2 encoding. They want MS to pay up or recall all the boxes from the market. Didn’t they just settle with Eolas not so long ago? Doesn’t this make Sony another … Continue reading →

I got an unusual request today. Someone sent me an Access file, asking to convert it to Excel. Why? I don’t know, I guess people are confused by the database stuff or something. I looked at the file, and figured … Continue reading →

The little inconsistencies between the way IE, and Firefox handle various DOM requests will drive me mad one day. Why can’t we just all code to the standard? :( For example, I wanted to have a collapsible table which displays … Continue reading →

Can I ask a question? Is it really that difficult to pronounce the word authentication? Seriously! I don’t know. I have a little bit of an accent going, so I do not always pronounce things the right way. For example, … Continue reading →

If you use the Gmail Manager extension for Firefox you probably have noticed that it could not log in today. It appears that Google has changed something with their protocol again. However, the newest version 0.4.3.5 (dated for April 3rd) … Continue reading →

Image: VGCats disses Inuyasha Hehehe! It so is DragonBall-Z for girls! LOLOL! My brother was always a big Ranma fan, so I kindoff got suckered into watching Inuyasha on the account off “hey, this was done by Rumiko Takashi”. What’s … Continue reading →

Whenever I copy and paste some code segments into my Latex documents, the verbatim environment eats my tabs. Apparently it is a feature, so I usually make my text editor convert tabs to n spaces before I import or copy … Continue reading →

This is priceless. zewrestler told me about it this morning, and now I just found this on boingboing. Apparently MPAA intends to sell movie downloads for twice the price of a DVD. of course we are talking about a DRM, … Continue reading →

This SUCKS balls! I was at school today, trying to run my NMF algorithm on a 4MB image file. I started running the test around 12pm – it was chugging along happily as I was working on my Programming Languages … Continue reading →

Yeah, I know that there is always google to calculate stuff online, but calcr is done with AJAX! This means no waiting for page to reload to see the result! These guys learned their web design style from Google too … Continue reading →

I don’t trust any clocks today. This is what happens when some of your clocks roll over to daylight savings automatically, and some do not. My alarm clock didn’t, but my cell phone, laptop, desktop and VCR did. So today … Continue reading →

I was sitting here, at my computer doing some stuff and Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex was playing in the background. My brother was in the same room playing some game. All of a sudden, he started asking me … Continue reading →