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New Machine

I picked up a new computer last week. A virtual one, that is. I ran into this site called prgmr which offers very low-cost, bare virtual private servers. So far, so good. Got Debian set up all the way I like it. Now just to find something fun to do with it.

Redesign!

Hello gentle readers… You may be surprised to notice that this website has had a redesign. I was on earlier and noticed that Srini’s Fluid-Blue WordPress theme had been updated to F2, which is newer and shinier. So, of course, I had to install the new one and redo my customizations of colors and such. [...]

minus

So, I working on my algs problem set just now; which is to say, I was browsing the web and trying very hard not to think about amortized runtime analysis. Anyhow, I found this awesome webcomic called minus. I know, I know, I’m years behind the curve, and it’s a little… odd. But it has [...]

Fishbots

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been hearing from a number of “Fishbots”. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, well, there’s this service called Project Upstream which runs a network of AIM bots with names like ThemedSalmon and “SweptCoho”. The idea behind these bots seems to be that they collect AIM nicks [...]

Ah, Collegiate Internet

blender, originally uploaded by roguelazer. As you may or may not know, HMC shares what is essentially a backbone line to the Internet. Sometimes, if you get it just right, that can mean really, really excellent things. As this photo shows. No, that’s not doctored. If you go to some of my photos on flickr, [...]