Hey, the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference is in San Diego next week. I live in San Diego – but I can’t even afford the deeply discounted student admissions. I’d go to see the microformats session, since I’m interested in seeing a good citation microformat develop. If anyone I know or should know is in town [...]
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File: February 2006
I take notes at meetings in VoodooPad, and as such I write a lot of to-do items in MeetingNotes pages. They tend to get buried in those pages unless I do something about it fast. Sometimes I put them somewhere more useful, like on my “TodoToday” page, but that page is getting more like a [...]
Now that we’ve got Google Maps, I’d like to see my calendar program (iCal) extended to pay more attention to the location of events. Show me how long it’ll take to get to events I’ve scheduled, based on where they are. Traffic estimates would make this really killer (at least here in So-Cal) It might [...]
As a Mac user, I don’t have Google Desktop, but this email from UCSD’s Vice Chancellor was still interesting: SUBJECT: Google Desktop Security Exposure Google Desktop V.3 contains certain features that raise serious security and privacy concerns. Specifically, the “share across computers” feature that introduces the ability to search content from desktop to desktop greatly [...]
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I’ve just put up the website for my current project (to be part of my Ph.D. dissertation work): LENS, a framework for program information manipulation that presents a uniform interface to selective user and automated queries about many types of program metrics, including success and diagnostic information about compiler optimizations and code generation. I’m not [...]
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Car art, UCSD Originally uploaded by michael.mccracken. This car has some serious character. The painting looks like it belongs on the car, and it reminds me a bit of explodingdog.com. If I find out whose car it is, I’ll explain more here.
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I replaced my stock powerbook battery recently with a NewerTech 53.3 Watt-Hour Battery, which is higher-capacity than the Apple originals, which are 46 Watt-Hour batteries. My old battery was so spent by the time I finally gave in that it would give about 20 minutes on a full charge before forcing sleep. The battery warning [...]
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Just went to see Jorge Cham’s talk “The Power of Procrastination” about grad school. There were plenty of good grad-school jokes and a general feeling of relief that comes with being in a big room full of people who laugh at the same old chestnuts about how nobody ever really feels like they fit in [...]
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I just discovered something curious. I accidentally pasted when I meant to undo in Apple Mail, and it took the text on the clipboard and created a new mail message with the clipboard text as its contents. Not a new message ready to send, like if I had dragged the text to Mail’s icon, but [...]
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Today, a group of graduating PhD students in our department met up to brief each other on what’s new and hot in their respective fields, to remind each other of what’s going on outside their respective specialties. The idea is that when interviewing for jobs, you have to hold up your end of a conversation [...]
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